The National Security State, NATO, Cold War were all created without the consent, much advice, of American people. ..…

“The biggest indignity yet was the ludicrous demand that NATO allies pay to host the American troops permanently garrisoned there – to essentially bankroll their own occupations. ..…

Soviet Union could not move against Western nations while they were protected under American umbrella. NATO did its job, and kept West protected and Soviet system collapsed, along with Communist governments it had sustained.. ..…

Some critics claimed that NATO was a form of American imperialism but if so, as the Norwegian historian Geir Lundestad argued, this was “empire by invitation” rather than the “empire of coercion” embodied in the Warsaw Pact. . ... Determined to rebuild the country’s grandeur after..…

U.S. pledges by senior USG officials to protect Syrian Kurdish militia against Syrian or Turkish reprisals are simply a recipe for an endless and ultimately counterproductive American military commitment. Doing so poses a genuine risk of a direct U.S. military confrontation with Turkey – a..…