The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed 77 years ago in 1949, as a defense pact against the Soviet Union and communist expansionism. Since then, the Soviet Union has fallen and many NATO nations have been transformed by mass immigration and socialist expansionism into countries that don't even resemble their former selves. In addition to this, most NATO nations, until recently forced to do so by Donald Trump, never bothered to meet their obligations in the alliance. Instead, they simply presumed that they could count on our military for their defense and on us, the American taxpayer, to foot the bill.

When Donald Trump ended our NATO allies free ride on the back of the American taxpayer, insisting that they meet their agreed to obligations and step up to the plate in defense of their own homelands, Democrats and globalists all over the world began running around like Chicken Littles, screaming, "The sky is falling!" However, as we now know, the sky didn't fall and NATO nations, with a few exceptions, have at long last divvied up and done what they agreed to do, but never did, until Donald Trump forced them to do it.

One of our few NATO “allies” who still refuses to divvy up and pay its fair share for its own national defense is Spain, which has opted instead to use its tax revenues to transform itself into an ever-expanding welfare state. In an egregious insult to us, Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, not only condemned us, his supposed ally, for Operation Epic Fury—our war on the mad mullahs of Iran—but also closed his nation’s airspace to our military aircraft and denied the use of military bases in Rota and Morón to all U.S. aircraft involved in combat operations against Iran. Needless to say, Sánchez’s actions constitute a serious fracture within NATO.

Although Sánchez’s stab in the back was not that surprising, Keir Starmer’s was, since it came from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, our supposed closest and most reliable NATO ally. Starmer, like Sánchez, initially denounced Operation Epic Fury as unlawful and denied our military’s use of his country’s military bases. Quickly realizing how his rebuff of us could rapidly unravel the already thin-threaded NATO alliance, Starmer backpedaled and allowed limited use of RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia by our military to carry out "defensive" strikes to degrade Iranian missile capabilities. Of course, the fact that the mad mullahs of Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, 2500 miles away from Iran, which proved, unbeknownst to Starmer, as well as other European leaders, that the mad mullahs already possess missiles with sufficient range to strike London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Athens, Budapest, Vienna, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Oslo, probably had something to do with Starmer’s capitulation. After all, this is what he and our other NATO allies apparently believe the alliance is all about, our protection of them, not their partnering with us.

Of all of the egregious betrayals we’ve suffered at the hands of our NATO allies during Operation Epic Fury, none have been more egregious than that of France. Not only has France closed its airspace to our military aircraft, as well as to cargo planes carrying military supplies to Israel, but it has also refused to secure international waters. In addition, it has aligned itself with Russia and China, in order to block a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of whatever means necessary to secure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Adding insult to injury, French President Emmanuel Macron has called upon the creation of a new alliance of countries, such as, France, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and India, to "unite against the U.S.,” in order to prevent themselves from becoming “vassals” of an evil “hegemonic power.”

Now, before we finish with this treasonous tale of this “Benedict Arnold” alliance, permit me to point out one other outrage that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that NATO has become obsolete. When Turkey, a dues-paying and treaty-bound member of NATO, which was under missile bombardment from the mad mullahs of Iran, requested from another NATO member, Poland, a temporary Patriot air defense battery, Poland said, “No!” Afterward, when we, with 10,000 American troops based in Poland for the protection of the Polish people, requested Poland reconsider, Poland rebuffed our request and still refused to temporarily loan a Patriot air defense battery to Turkey. 

All of the above makes one thing perfectly clear, our so-called NATO allies see the NATO alliance as a safeguarding service to which they are entitled, but not as a treaty that they are obligated to uphold. Never in the history of the world has the old adage—“With friends like these, who needs enemies”—been more applicable. As unpopular as it might be to say, “NATO has definitely become a no-go!”