View from London: “It’s time for a Brexit from NATO”

Trump’s threats to Denmark over Greenland is making the alliance feel more like a racket. The implication of Trump’s expansionism is that NATO will no longer have any credibility to defend its member states’ sovereignty or territorial integrity. The writing is on the wall – NATO is over as a defensive alliance, ‘The Telegraph’ stresses.

One of our allies, Denmark, is being menaced by our most important ally, the US, which wants to annex the Danish Arctic island of Greenland. US President Donald Trump is likely to get his way, not least because he has refused to rule out the possibility of using force to take Greenland.

This opens up the grotesque possibility of US troops firing on Danish forces, despite the fact that Danish forces lost similar numbers of lives in per capita terms, fighting on behalf of the US in Afghanistan as the US did itself.

Denmark is pathetically hoping to propitiate the US by giving them all rights to the territory short of sovereignty. Denmark is learning the hard lesson that loyalty to allies should never surpass one’s national interest. So what is Britain’s national interest in this situation?

Formally, NATO was founded in 1949 on the grounds of deterring the Soviet Union from militarily overrunning Western Europe. NATO’s first secretary-general, Lord Ismay, famously elaborated the wider rationale for the organisation as “keeping the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”. None of this makes sense any more under current geopolitics conditions.

Unlike the 1945-89 Cold War, there is no prospect of a Russian invasion.

As for the Germans, they are certainly down – they are busily deindustrialising themselves as if they had been occupied by a foreign invader determined to reduce the country to a second-rate agricultural power. The only remaining question left from Lord Ismay’s triptych is, do we still want to keep the Americans in?

The Russians menace their neighbours in Eastern Europe, and now the US is menacing Denmark, a country that like us is located in both the North Sea and the North Atlantic.

The implication of Trump’s expansionism is that NATO will no longer have any credibility to defend its member states’ sovereignty or territorial integrity. The writing is on the wall – NATO is over as a defensive alliance. An alliance in which the strongest member preys on the territory of the smaller members is not an alliance but a racket. In rackets, the gangster shakes you down while claiming to protect you from the very threat that they have themselves created.

Britain, having voted itself out of the European Union 10 years ago on the grounds of reclaiming our national sovereignty, cannot stay in a club that is now openly gouging its member-states’ territorial integrity. We would disgrace ourselves to remain part of a racket. It is in our national interest to Brexit from NATO.

As Britain was the first country to break with globalism when we voted for Brexit in 2016, the nation should show similar audacity, continuing the path of carving out a new geopolitics predicated on our national independence. We should lead the way in forming a new alliance system, grouping together our closest neighbours and peer-level powers, such as France and Germany.

Britain has a rich tradition of historical foreign policy independence. It was after all Viscount Palmerston who famously said in 1848 that we had no eternal allies or enemies, only eternal interests. We have been members of NATO for nearly 80 years, and – with the partial exception of Harold Wilson’s refusal to plunge us into the Vietnam War alongside the US – obedient followers of the US since the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Is dogged faithfulness to the US to be eternal?

Trump has shown that the justification for NATO is not eternal. Nothing is for ever and Atlanticism has run its course. It is time to make Palmerstonian foreign policy a reality. It is time to act on our national interests and to make British foreign policy great again.

It is time to Brexit from NATO.

…The reason for this seemingly strange call for Britain to leave NATO is quite simple. The British are pragmatic strategists, and they have calculated the possible scenario of a NATO-Russia war, which Europe (as it looks like now) scheduled for 2029-2030.

So, if such a war should happen, the British have already decided that they must remain to stay outside NATO. They need to have an excuse for Moscow: “We're not in NATO, so you can't bomb us.”

Fanny people. These old British provocateurs, by custom, want to abandon their closest allies in Europe in order to save themselves. In the 19th century, Lord Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, expressed his country's strategy this way: “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”

Now the British interest is – “to save their ass”, as they used to say in U.S. Army. The British intend to abandon both Ukraine and Europe in order to show that they have “nothing to do” with the aggression against Russia.

However, this old British trick won't work now – Moscow has a long memory, and we will not forget all the provocations and terrorist attacks that the Ukrainians, under the direction of British intelligence, have carried out against Russia.

As the Scriptures say: “For God, who knows all hearts, knows yours, and he knows you knew! And he will reward everyone according to his deeds.”

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