Why NATO Is Finished




The generic feel-good narrative promulgated by news media in the West is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has galvanized NATO and resulted in Western nations banding together to send aid to plucky Ukraine so that it can defend itself against the barbaric Russian hordes.
What NATO really did in 2022 was demonstrate a total lack of cohesion and instead a commitment to abject indecisiveness. This is because NATO is not a monolithic organization but in reality merely a loose collection of sovereign nations that disagree wildly on nearly every geopolitical topic. NATO also lacks any mechanism for imposing discipline, without which command and control is rendered impossible. This is why Hungary and Turkey (both NATO members) regularly flaunt NATO strategic interests and instead act to assist geopolitical adversaries.

The USA, NATO’s key member, assumed Kyiv would quickly fall and famously offered Zelensky not military aid but a ride out of town. The mindless British PM at the time (Fat Boris) claimed on the eve of the invasion that the invasion was “an impossibility.” The French, post-invasion, were focused almost entirely on avoiding any humiliation of Russia’s dictator, and in Hungary Orban was overtly offering assistance to the Kremlin. Much of Europe sat on the fence, unwilling to take sides, though Austria continues to seem quite pro-Russian thanks to the large number of wealthy Russians who’ve bought property and parked some of their billions in that country.