An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing the U.S. position on Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The policy options are detailed in a note expressing frustration at some allies’ perceived reluctance or refusal to grant the United States access, basing and overflight rights - known as ABO - for the Iran war, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the email.
The email stated that ABO is “just the absolute baseline for NATO,” according to the official, who added that the options were circulating at high levels in the Pentagon.
All the more reason for the EU to leave NATO as a united bloc.
What value does a defense alliance have when the most influential country in its ranks is ruled by a psychopath who openly threatens its members with a war of aggression and commits the most heinous war crimes elsewhere in the world?
We simply have to be realistic: The U.S. is now the enemy of the free world. Nothing will ever change that, because the American people will never rise up against their own downfall.
Correction: The “free world” is the enemy of the free world, because that’s how late stage capitalism works. The EU seems poised to follow in America’s footsteps, if anything. Also if the “most heinous war crimes” part was a dealbreaker NATO never would’ve existed.
Create NATO GOLD, consisting of all of NATO minus America. The ‘GOLD’ would just be to annoy Trump.
$NATO anyone?