nato issues

It appears the youthful side of the party is even more bonkers than Corbyn and McDonnell. From article: Young Labour demanded the UK ditch the military alliance after voting to support a motion called “support Corbyn and internationalism, oppose Trump and NATO”. The motion said: “From Guyana...

Trump at NATO today, in a speech in front of the other member leaders, was critical of the states which have not paid 2% of GDP as agreed. Indeed only 5 make that commitment; http://uk.businessinsider.com/nato-share-breakdown-country-2017-2 United States, 3.61%. Greece, 2.38%. Britain, 2.21%...

Monday: John Kerry announces a plan to send additional arms to be to the Baltic States. Tuesday: Putin puts in order for 40 new nuclear ICBMs. Wednesday: NATO hold exercises only 100 miles from Kalingrad Naval Base. Given Russia's recent continued incursions into - or close to - NATO member...

It seems that with each passing day, we are getting ourselves (I speak mainly of the US and our NATO allies) deeper and deeper into this thing, taking positions that will be difficult to intake later, making commitments that we may come to regret. At the same time, the more I learn about...

OK, so there is a NATO summit meeting here in Chicago in a few days, and there are supposed to be thousands of legitimate demonstrators (and dozens of criminal anarchists here to cause only trouble) and I cannot for the life of me figure out what there is to protest? I know the peace activists...