{"id":402449,"date":"2019-04-02T23:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-should-close-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T23:41:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:41:51","slug":"trump-should-close-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-should-close-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Should Close – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shop all books by Pat Buchanan<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

When Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, the president should give him a direct message:<\/p>\n

The roster of NATO membership is closed. For good. The United States will not hand out any more war guarantees to fight Russia to secure borders deep in Eastern Europe, when our own southern border is bleeding profusely.<\/p>\n

And no one needs to hear this message more than Stoltenberg.<\/p>\n

In Tblisi, Georgia, on March 25, Stoltenberg declared to the world: \u201cThe 29 allies have clearly stated that Georgia will become a member of NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Moscow\u2019s objection to Georgia joining NATO, Stoltenberg gave Vladimir Putin the wet mitten across the face:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not accepting that Russia, or any other power, can decide what (NATO) members can do.\u201d
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Yet what would it mean for Georgia to be brought into NATO?<\/p>\n

The U.S. would immediately be ensnared in a conflict with Russia that calls to mind the 1938 and 1939 clashes over the Sudetenland and Danzig that led straight to World War II.<\/p>\n

In 2008, thinking it had U.S. backing, Georgia rashly ordered its army into South Ossetia, a tiny province that had broken away years before.<\/p>\n

In that Georgian invasion, Russian peacekeepers were killed and Putin responded by sending the Russian army into South Ossetia to throw the Georgians out. Then he invaded Georgia itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all Georgians now!\u201d roared uber-interventionist John McCain. But George W. Bush, by now a wiser man, did nothing.<\/p>\n

Had Georgia been a NATO nation in 2008, the U.S. could have been on the brink of war with Russia over the disputed and minuscule enclave of South Ossetia,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shop all books by Pat Buchanan When Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, the president should give him a direct message: The roster of NATO membership is closed. For good. The United States will not hand out any more war guarantees to fight Russia to secure borders deep in Eastern Europe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}