NATO, Was, Will Be A Failure.

In 1949, when NATO was founded, Dwight Eisenhower said, "If NATO exists in ten years it will have been a failure."

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NATO in 1949 had only 12 members, comprising Western Europe, Canadaand the United States. Its original mission was simple. According to the alliance's first secretary general, Lord Hastings Ismay, NATO was formed "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."
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It is said that Putin fears provoking NATO. More likely he will soon seek to wreck it by deliberately bullying weak and distant NATO members like Estonia, over whose independence Europeans are unlikely to start a war.
Third, the expansion from 12 to the current 28 members vastly complicated the alliance's responsibilities -- and vulnerabilities. To paraphrase Frederick the Great, protecting everything now means often protecting nothing. Turkey is now becoming obvious problem.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in his 11th year of undermining Turkish democracy and Islamicizing the country.
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One day soon we will wake up and NATO will have simply vanished with a whimper.

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Will NATO end with a whimper?

By Victor Davis Hanson
Published August 7, 2014