Remembering NATO

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Sixty-five years ago, there was an aggressive leader in the Kremlin who had used elections conducted under the occupation of his troops to ensure outcomes that expanded his empire and threatened freedom-loving peoples elsewhere.

On this day in 1949, twelve nations banded together to form an alliance to counter Josef Stalin’s ambitions. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization did that, preventing a third cataclysmic war in Europe.

As a greatly expanded – and yet, in many ways, far weaker – NATO celebrates its 65th birthday, member nations face the greatest threat since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, years of hollowing out its military capabilities and seriously deficient leadership in Washington is today inviting the sort of aggression from the Kremlin’s current despot that the alliance was founded to prevent.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedom.org.