Letter to Foreign Affairs Magazine
The following letter is intended to convey a critical view of NATO in response to “What NATO means to the World” by Jens Stoltenberg. Being of Greek ancestry, I am acutely aware that NATO has double standards. A perfect example of this is NATO’s treatment of Greece and Cyprus. Greece has been on the receiving end of Turkish threats and the government in Ankara has openly claimed the Greek islands. NATO member Turkey is an aggressor state and an outright sponsor of terrorism and jihadism as can be seen by its alliances with pro Al Quada elements and its tolerance of Islamic State.
Turkey also invaded the Republic of Cyprus in 1974, which is not a member of NATO. This makes NATO itself an aggressor and supporter of Turkish ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories of Cyprus. More recently, the Greek Prime Minister asked Secretary Stolenberg himself to condemn Turkish threats against Greece. Mr. Stoltenberg refused to so do, making him and NATO hypocrites who are ready to sacrifice Greece and Cyprus to Turkey. In addition, NATO has looked the other way as Turkey aided and abetted the genocide of Armenians from Artsakh by the fascist-jihadist regime in Azerbaijan.
The NATO alliance is not indispensable. It is in many ways a threat to small countries considered of less importance as can be seen by the struggles of Armenia, Cyprus,
and Greece.
Theodore Karakostas
Boston
2 replies on “Greece And NATO”
Greece should not leave NATO unilaterally, that would be politically dangerous at these times. But NATO itself needs to be dramatically curtailed or eliminated entirely-the purpose for which it was originally set-up no longer exists, the Soviet Union is no more. The Election of Donald Trump will promote dissolution of NATO, because he will insist on NATO members paying their fair share. Europeans have gotten away with not doing that when Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden were President-the globalist Elites wanted NATO to use as a club to advance their agenda and didn’t come down hard on European nations for not spending the 2% of GDP they committed to. Trump will make them do that and it will be politically very difficult for European political leaders-they’re terrified of a Trump Presidency for that reason. Hopefully NATO won’t exist in a few years, but until then it’s time for Americans to stop paying for Europe’s defense needs. We’ve done enough.
I wanted to add one more comment that I forgot in my first post-NATO nations have stripped themselves bare of weapons to support Ukraine. Many of them will have to spend a fortune to rebuild their weapons inventories. This is going to hit Europe very hard for the next few years/decades, those weapons are not cheap. They made the terrible mistake to go all-in on the Ukraine conflict and now the notes have come due. Those of us who have been opposed to the conflict in Ukraine from the beginning are going to enjoy seeing political leaders in Europe get the election-ziggy, for being subservient to Washington DC.