In Trump’s defense re NATO - Turkey is now imprisoning journalists and academics at a greater rate than China does - and given how adept China is at throwing people in jail who do not effectively police their thoughts and actions in accordance with Party rules, Erdogan must have really embraced the practice with the zeal I guess you’d expect from a would be Sultan - but of course there was that nasty coup - yes… worst coup ever from a military that in the past has excelled at coup making? Hmmn. Curious. Point being, Turkey is a member of NATO - and NATO ostensibly is about defending Western values and democracy from illiberal regimes like… well… apparently Turkey - and I haven’t really heard any other NATO members stand up to say ‘how the fuck does that make sense?’
So, yeah, walking away from NATO would be stupid - but that doesn’t mean the institution doesn’t have problems when clearly it does. Again, I don't know what Trump is thinking with his NATO jabs because as said before it’s hard to know what the hell he’s really thinking about anything when he says the stuff he does - but it’s not crazy to suggest NATO may need a retooling of sorts. And let’s remember - there are certain countries within the alliance whose leaders were very sympathetic to Obama’s progressive worldview and agenda - which is a nice way of saying they’re naive idiots - which is going to put them at odds one assumes with Trump’s foreign policy - and this fracture may show up right away re Israel - the recent ‘peace conference’ in Paris may be a preview of that. That idiotic gab fest was no doubt originally intended to mark the passing of the progressive worldview torch from Obama to Hillary - and instead perforce became a lecture series on the dangers of Trump. Interestingly, England stayed away - that’s very interesting. Trump’s NATO talk may have something to do with that developing dynamic.
