News has broken that U.S. General Martin Dempsey has stated that the United States will take military action if Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is triggered, which states “that an armed attack against one or more [NATO members] shall be considered an attack against them all.” (Sounds like our stance against an attack on Israel, no?)

Fro the Moscow Times:

“We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies. And I have assured them that, if that treaty obligation is triggered, we would respond,” he said in the interview on Friday night. “If Russia is allowed to do this, which is to say move into a sovereign country under the guise of protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine, it exposes Eastern Europe to some significant risk because there are ethnic enclaves all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans,” General Martin Dempsey said in an interview to PBS television. There are currently 400,000 Romanians living in Ukraine, Dempsey said, citing the example of Romania, which has been a member of NATO since 2004.

Just like with U.S. involvement with other international organizations, namely the UN, America is once again getting drawn into a war that doesn’t – or shouldn’t – affect it. Granted, US/Russian relations have been rocky as of late, and the US is always concerned with what its brother in nukes is up to, but in reality NATO hasn’t been needed since the end of the cold war and according to Rothbard was never really needed. Military involvement will simply bring us into another pointless war, but this time with an adversary with far larger teeth than the nipping incisors of the Middle Eastern terrorists.

I find it beyond hypocritical for any American general to decry Russia’s rationale (false as it may be) for military action, which on the surface is to protect ethnic Russians. How many wars has the U.S. started or gotten involved in because it wanted to protect “democracy?” It’s the same thing – the United States has labelled its most essential cultural factor in overseas relations as “democracy” (rather than the ideas of liberty that it was founded on), and any group it can claim is “fighting for democracy” instantly become our own ethnic Americans.

We’ve been warring for the past century over our own “ethnics” as a pretext for expanding the American empire. Where does anyone in our military industrial complex get off speaking from a pedestal when someone else does it?

As is typical for tyrannical regimes, the real motivations are strategic. Crimea’s location on the Black Sea is a focal point for oil pipelines and a strategic sea port. When looking at the global landscape, it’s easy to discern the true motivations of each side. Anyone with internet access and a cursory understanding of politicians can see through the rhetoric instantly.

Let’s drop the charade, shall we?

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