Thomas Massie introduces bill to pull US out of NATO: ‘America should not be the world’s security blanket’
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky announced on Tuesday that he had introduced a measure to remove the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, arguing that the decades-old alliance is obsolete, has been costly for American taxpayers and puts the nation at risk of engagement in foreign wars.
"NATO is a Cold War relic. The United States should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our country, not socialist countries. Today, I introduced HR 6508 to end our NATO membership," Massie said in a post on X.
GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida shared Massie's post and wrote, "Co-sponsoring this."
"NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union, which collapsed over thirty years ago. Since then, U.S. participation has cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and continues to risk U.S. involvement in foreign wars. Our Constitution did not authorize permanent foreign entanglements, something our Founding Fathers explicitly warned us against. America should not be the world’s security blanket—especially when wealthy countries refuse to pay for their own defense," Massie said, according to a press release.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introduced the "Not a Trusted Organization Act," or "NATO Act" in the Senate earlier this year — Massie is now fielding companion legislation in the House.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/thomas-...ty-blanket
So, NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union, which collapsed over thirty years ago, therefore it is useless, and yet the US used NATO's services well after the Soviet Union collapsed—almost as if it isn't obsolete.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky announced on Tuesday that he had introduced a measure to remove the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, arguing that the decades-old alliance is obsolete, has been costly for American taxpayers and puts the nation at risk of engagement in foreign wars.
"NATO is a Cold War relic. The United States should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our country, not socialist countries. Today, I introduced HR 6508 to end our NATO membership," Massie said in a post on X.
GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida shared Massie's post and wrote, "Co-sponsoring this."
"NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union, which collapsed over thirty years ago. Since then, U.S. participation has cost taxpayers trillions of dollars and continues to risk U.S. involvement in foreign wars. Our Constitution did not authorize permanent foreign entanglements, something our Founding Fathers explicitly warned us against. America should not be the world’s security blanket—especially when wealthy countries refuse to pay for their own defense," Massie said, according to a press release.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah introduced the "Not a Trusted Organization Act," or "NATO Act" in the Senate earlier this year — Massie is now fielding companion legislation in the House.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/thomas-...ty-blanket
So, NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union, which collapsed over thirty years ago, therefore it is useless, and yet the US used NATO's services well after the Soviet Union collapsed—almost as if it isn't obsolete.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
