1870-71: Franco-Prussian War, 433K dead 1914-1918: WWI, 17.6M dead, including 116K Americans 1939-1945: WWII, 54M dead in Europe, including 277K Americans 1949: NATO founded 1949-Present: No major European wars 2018: "NATO's stupid. What does it do for us anyway?"
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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander is always an American. In NATO operations, sovereign nations place the forces they contribute (including generals!) under American command. Voluntarily. Do people not realize how rare that is in history?
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Alliances aren't about making money. They're about having allies--the sort who fought and bled in Afghanistan after 9/11, even though they weren't attacked. But if you must make it about money--Would've cost billions for US to replace the thousands of allied troops in Afghanistan
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Would these be the allies Secretary John Kerry referred to as the coalition of the bribed, the coerced?
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That was in reference to Iraq, which included some of the allies that participated in Afghanistan, but not all. And Kerry was wrong to refer to them as such.
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