Maggie's Farm

Guys,
I thought I'd drop this on you because NATO, and our ongoing subsidies to Europe, are foundational institutions underpinning the growth of American and European Socialism - you cannot drain the trans-Atlantic 'Swamp' without addressing them. Here goes:

Title: Who is Containing Whom?

It is said that NATO was designed to “keep Russia out, the Germans down, and America in [Europe]. I think this clichéd analysis is dead wrong. Instead, NATO cements Europe’s influence in America’s domestic and international decision-making, and its explicit anti-Russian orientation grants the Kremlin a permanent residence, "rent-free" in our constant deliberations. Functionally, the obligation hijacks American self-determination and effectively forecloses on our range of independent policy choices in a fast-changing world. in 2024, NATO is a straight jacket on the true, American motive in foreign and domestic affairs.

Speaking for the same Atlanticists that failed to foresee WWI, Robert Kagan’s “Containment Theory” explained to Americans the reasons for our lashing to NATO and to her sister racket, The Marshal Plan, in this way: “If tax-payers will commit to enormous, perpetual capital flows to Western Europe, as well as to the maintenance of a fixed, protective military alliance, then Communism will not spread to Europe. ” 75 years later, it’s fair to question the sincerity of the Atlanticists’ promise.

In 2024, the returns on our investment look bleak. We have paid the NATO Danegeld faithfully for 75 years, but we still got the Communism.

Europe flipped to Communism in the ‘eighties, slowly at first and then all at once, under NATO’s dumb watch. France has elected only avowed Communist Presidents since Mitterrand. NATO member Canada, France’s ‘rump’ regime in Ottawa, has tacked in tandem with their Mother country, too. England cannot sustain a conservative Prime Minister and her capitol city is too riven with identity politics, Islam and globalist financial schemes to deliberate the nation’s interests responsibly. Germany is a proverbial watermelon: it hasn’t elected a Conservative Chancellor since the early 1990’s. Today in 2024, Berlin’s entrenched Red-Green coalition is criminalizing criticism of its immigration, climate, tax and vaccination policies. These are the “Democracies” that our State Department has been constructing under NATO’s cover on our behalf. This soviet model is what the Council on Foreign Relations means when they say “Our Democracy.”

The threat implied in Kagan’s ultimatum now leaps into plain view: who is containing whom? Today, while NATO watches, the Russian Navy is navigating freely along the Florida coast and docking happily in Havana and Aruba. Her air force is overflying Alaskan cities; the Monroe Doctrine is murdered. Under NATO’s auspices, ‘loose cannon’ allies like Socialist France or Muslim Turkey, neither friends to American freedoms, have the whip-hand over America’s Congress, and can embroil us in capricious, foreign wars. Our Congress, which is solely charged with the responsibility of declaring American Wars, can only sit on its thumbs and watch - like a hapless conductor on a run-away train. Foreign-owned media outlets inflame Americans’ domestic sensibilities daily with hoaxed crises to pump financial flows and prestige back to Europe, and elsewhere. Un-elected ‘stakeholders’ can pull from NATO’s stable of ‘experts,’ Ukrainian Admirals and deputized NGO’s to yell over American citizens’ voices in media whenever their agendas might come under public audit. American subsidies to European governments are fungible: they are ‘donated’ back to the Atlanticists’ public campaigns in North America, which include political ad campaigns. (Could the Tides Foundation, a prominent non-profit scold in American media culture, function without recycled State Department or NATO-adjacent grants?) Meanwhile America is importing Europe’s centralized social and economic policies, right down to Germany’s high taxes and regulatory burdens, with blatant efforts to impinge on Americans’ 1st and 2nd Amendments in the works, too.

So, who is containing whom? It’s 2024, and it’s high time to flip Kagan’s ultimatum on its head. “Pay up or you’ll get the Communism,” he asserted to justify the explosive spending of Americans’ taxes on the Atlanticists’ expensive rackets. And so we paid up gullibly, but we got the Communism anyway. A serious audit paints a picture of a citizenry that has submitted en masse to a 70-year old terror hoax, “The Communism.” And we fell for it dumbly for nearly a century.

What does it take to convince a Mark that he has been conned. I hope this essay will help others to realize the need for a change.