Posted by Brad Sallows from Burnaby BC Canada on June 11, 2021 at 13:28:11:
In Reply to: Re: link posted by Michael A. Dorosh on June 10, 2021 at 19:41:09:
Removing our presence in Europe wasn't necessarily a bad thing. 4 CMBG
and the fighter squadrons weren't exactly among NATO's elite front-line
fighting forces while they were there, and a downsizing commensurate
with our allies would've made it a pitifully token force which would
have contributed nothing to security and simply been a money sink.
Having all our forces garrisoned in-country makes them available for our
own use.
I'm not in any hurry to leave NATO, even if we have to settle for a
position somewhere beneath the Netherlands. Canada can only maintain
a presence in a forum where there are numerous other countries to
offset the massive pull of the US. Departing NATO would leave us
with one security partner - the US - and I don't think our position
would be any stronger there than it is with NATO.