{"id":65206,"date":"2020-12-15T22:25:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T03:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=65206"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:41:39","slug":"nato-must-be-dissolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/nato-must-be-dissolved\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Must Be Dissolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Col. Richard Black (ret.), prerecorded remarks<br>For Schiller Institute Conference, Dec. 12-13, 2020<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NATO Must Be Dissolved \u2014 Col. Richard H. Black (USA Ret.)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K5P1Slac6W0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>SEN. RICHARD BLACK: I&#8217;m very pleased to be here with Schiller<br>Institute, and I want you to just know in advance that I come at this as a <br>very patriotic American. I&#8217;ve risked my life hundreds of times in combat.<br>So I&#8217;m very patriotic but I&#8217;ve very concerned about NATO.<br>NATO, in my view poses a very grave threat to world peace. In fact, it<br>is the centerpiece of the deep state. Going back, in 1949, NATO was<br>formed as a defensive alliance against the Soviet Union, which was<br>massively powered by nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union, in response<br>formed the Warsaw Pact, six years later in 1955. Many years of Cold War<br>went on. Fortunately, there was no nuclear war, or conventional war. The<br>Cold War ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved and communism<br>was discredited. The Warsaw Pact dissolved that same year.<br>Now, by 1991, NATO served no practical purpose, and it should have<br>been dissolved. It would have been a great thing for world peace had it<br>been dissolved. The prospects for a permanent peace were very bright.<br>The distance between Germany and Russia was over 3,000 miles, a huge<br>buffer against any sort of an accidental missile launch, or a hostile invasion,<br>one way or the other. So at that point, the prospects of a World War III<br>were extremely remote and this was a very fine time.<br>Backing up just a year before that, in 1990, President George H.W.<br>Bush and the top brass from NATO guaranteed President Gorbachev of the<br>Soviet Union that if he would not interfere with the reunification of<br>Germany, that NATO would not move one inch to the east, towards Russia,<br>and he accepted that agreement, and carried it out loyally. But, NATO lied,<br>and they lied massively. Instead of observing their promise, NATO rapidly<br>advanced, until today, they lie within 20 miles of the Russian border. So<br>NATO has advanced the same distance, approximately, as from coast to<br>coast in the United States, from New York City to San Francisco.<br>Instead of dissolving NATO, the Alliance grew from 16 members, to<br>30 members, and they did this by falsely portraying Russia as the<br>reincarnation of the Soviet Union &#8212; which it was not, at all.<br>Now, it&#8217;s important to realize that Russia&#8217;s population is half that of<br>the United States, and its economy is only the size of Italy&#8217;s. A good<br>measure of the genuine risk from Russia, is that Germany, which is the<br>industrial powerhouse of Europe, assessed the threat of Russian invasion<br>as so remote that they have reduced the number of tanks from 5,000<br>during the Cold War, down to 200 today, almost nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Donald Trump campaigned on withdrawing from NATO,<br>because it was obsolete, and he made a pledge to normalize relations with<br>both Russia, with Syria; however, the problem with this is that it would have<br>destroyed the {raison d&#8217;\u00eatre}, the very reason for the existence of NATO<br>and the deep state. And it is that principal reason, in my opinion, that<br>caused President Trump to face a continuing coup, that began before he<br>was elected and that culminated in the massive election fraud that we have<br>just seen.<br>The Russian hoax put President Trump&#8217;s back at the wall. He was<br>forced to modify his anti-NATO rhetoric and sort of morph it into a demand<br>that NATO simply purchase more weapons. They&#8217;ve done this, and of<br>course, this has only further exacerbated the arms race between NATO<br>and Russia.<br>NATO and the military-industrial complex, the entire deep state,<br>employing millions of influential bureaucrats, they depend upon public<br>perceptions of nonexistent threats for their existence. There are millions of<br>defense-related jobs that are involved in this. But the fact is, that except for<br>minor border skirmishes with Mexico, the United States has never been<br>invaded by a foreign nation since the War of 1812. Back then, we were a<br>small, weak nation, and today, we are now the monolith of the world. The<br>U.S. defense budget is so large that it&#8217;s now larger than the 10 largest<br>defense budgets of other nations. We have three times the budget of<br>China; fifteen times the budget of Russia; and forty times the budget of<br>Iran. The U.S. Navy has three times the naval tonnage of either Russia or<br>China. Their navies are primitive: While we have 11 massive carrier task<br>forces to project global power, both China and Russia have only one,<br>modest aircraft carrier apiece.<br>Marine troops, naval infantry, are a measure of a nation&#8217;s power to<br>invade other countries from the sea. The U.S. has 15 times as many naval<br>troops as Russia and 8 times as many as China. So anyone who imagines<br>that perhaps we&#8217;re threatened by some sort of an invasion, need only look<br>at the size of the U.S. Marine Corps, and the size of their marine forces and<br>realize that that is a fantasy.<br>With the U.S. in the lead, NATO has taken recklessly provocative<br>actions against Russia, to deliberately heighten the tensions, we repeatedly<br>fly nuclear capable missions directed towards the border of Russia, and<br>just before they reach the border of Russia, they peel off and go off in their<br>directions. But just in the month of August, it forced Russia to scramble<br>jets to intercept these bombers on 27 different occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The provocations, both naval and by air, have become so militant and<br>so risky, that in 2019, President Putin made the decision to unveil his<br>previously secret hypersonic nuclear weapons program. He did this, not to<br>bluster and impress the world, but he did this to ward off any possible<br>offensive action towards Russia. He&#8217;s followed that up by announcing that<br>he&#8217;s going to arm the Russian Navy and Russian submarine force with<br>hypersonic missiles.<br>With virtually no buffer between NATO and Russia, these missiles,<br>which cannot be intercepted, are able to reach Washington, D.C., or New<br>York City from Russia, within an hour, and for missiles that are fired by<br>Russian submarines offshore, within several minutes they can literally<br>exterminate the entire population of Washington, D.C., or of New York City.<br>This is an extraordinary danger to the American people.<br>One thing we need to understand: {Russia does not want war.} They<br>don&#8217;t want a nuclear war, certainly. And they cannot fight the United States<br>and NATO conventionally. But the U.S. has dismantled all of the nuclear &#8212;<br>almost all of the nuclear disarmament treaties. They were painfully<br>negotiated over decades, and now we are developing small-yield nuclear<br>weapons whose only purpose is to make nuclear war a more practical<br>reality.<br>So, NATO, which once defended Europe, is now fighting aggressive<br>wars in the Middle East and they&#8217;re being recruited to confront China and to<br>join in on that venture, which is very likely to occur. Each of these<br>expansions of NATO raise the specter of a nuclear war. If World War III<br>breaks out, it will kill vast numbers of American citizens, and NATO will be<br>to blame. The death toll will exceed any war that has ever been fought by<br>many, many times! It would poison the Earth with radiation. It would cause<br>a total breakdown in trade, transportation, and food production. It possibly<br>would end civilization, altogether.<br>Now, it&#8217;s important for Americans to understand the geography of the<br>world. The United States was blessed by having massive oceans on either<br>coast: the Pacific, the Atlantic, that extend for many thousands of miles. So<br>we are not threatened. No nation can invade the United States, and unless<br>we threaten others, there is absolutely no realistic fear of war. Ordinary<br>Americans gain nothing by the endless wars that we&#8217;re fighting, under the<br>aegis of NATO and our allies. And it&#8217;s important to realize that when the<br>balloon goes up, top government officials and the global oligarchs will<br>shelter in prepared underground cities. But the rest of us will be<br>incinerated by their folly. We will have NATO to thank for the demise of<br>Western civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col. Richard Black (ret.), prerecorded remarksFor Schiller Institute Conference, Dec. 12-13, 2020 SEN. RICHARD BLACK: I&#8217;m very pleased to be here with SchillerInstitute, and I want you to just know in advance that I come at this as a very patriotic American. 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