NATO’s In Town

There is a big NATO summit starting today in Washington, D.C. Everyone is focused on whether America’s president can put two coherent sentences together and hold up through dinner. It’s a highly scripted event, so he should be fine.

By the way, the left relentlessly accused Donald Trump of undermining NATO. He did not. Trump told our “allies” to pay their dues.

If members of a club aren’t paying their dues and the club starts to suffer as a result of being starved for resources, the club president is not “undermining” the club by telling members to pay up. And sure enough, they started paying.

But the real story of the NATO summit is who these NATO nations are now. Recent European elections have dramatically changed the leadership of key allies.

In Great Britain, the Tories (the “conservative” party) were crushed in the election, largely because they failed to do what they said they would do.

Turnout was the lowest it has been in 20 years. But because of some odd election rules, the anti-Israel left-wing Labour Party now holds 63% of the seats in Parliament, even though it won just 34% of the vote.

Under a more logical system, the populist conservative party led by Nigel Farage would have won 94 seats. Instead, they have just five.

At the same time, France took a big lurch to the left. President Macron’s so-called “centrists” conspired with a Marxist/Islamist movement to block the National Rally, France’s conservative populist party.

Again, odd European election rules resulted in a bizarre outcome. The Marxist/Islamist movement, which finished second, ended up with the most seats in the French parliament, while the National Rally, which won the most votes of all the parties, finished third in the allocation of seats in the parliament.

Emmanuel Macron is still president of France for three more years, but his approval rating is an abysmal 26%. And the leader of this new leftist alliance, Jean-Luc Melenchon, is a radical pro-Hamas anti-Semite and one of the country’s most divisive figures.

Presumably, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be at the NATO summit. His approval rating is just 33%, and there’s speculation he may resign. He’s in the middle of a huge scandal involving the communist Chinese compromising members of Trudeau’s party.

I could go on, but here’s the bottom line: All these leftist leaders are hostile to America’s interests, and they are showing totalitarian instincts. They want to crush dissent and eliminate all opposition. They want corporations to do their dirty work and silence conservative voices.

And this is the NATO we are relying on if we send our sons to die in Europe.

Here’s something else to consider: Are we really supposed to believe that radical Islamists and French communists are going to be all in on fighting Russia in Ukraine?