Virginia State Sen. Richard Black Tells Sputnik Why NATO Should Be Disbanded

Dec. 10, 2019 (EIRNS)—Speaking as a former NATO officer, Virginia State Senator Richard Black told Sputnik International that there is no reason to “enhance” NATO, since after the end of the Cold War, it serves no purpose. Instead, good relations with Russia are needed.

He pointed to the fact that Germany is only willing to fund 200 tanks to defend its border with Russia, and clear evidence that Europe’s (once) industrial powerhouse has not the slightest fear of Russia as a military threat. “In the Syrian battle for Aleppo, the terrorists used more than 200 tanks!” he said. “And yet that’s what Germany has for the entire defense against Russia and anyone else who might be a threat.”

When he was posted as a lieutenant colonel to NATO in Europe in 1981-1984, the NATO alliance was necessary and effective, Senator Black said. But after the Cold War ended and the WarsawPact was dissolved, “NATO should have been disbanded. It had no purpose whatsoever.... Russia is a European country and it’s one that has much to offer and represents no threat at all, unless, and the one caveat is, if we continually prod them and something goes terribly wrong in one of these provocations and we trip trigger a nuclear war. Because Russia is very strong in nuclear power.”

Sputnik published four different stories today from an interview with Senator Black, ranging from U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere to the failure of House Democrats to present “even one piece of evidence that suggests that President Trump has committed a crime” in their impeachment “farce”—which he denounced as “just a matter of trying to overthrow the government through using a mechanism that it was never intended for.”

He also slammed the U.S. seizure of Syria’s oil fields as “simply an act of piracy. It’s stealing, plain and simple.” Because poor people in Syria may die from lack of heat this winter because the oil was seized, he called the action “cruel, it’s immoral and its un-Christian. It’s a sinful thing to do and we have no business stealing oil or any other natural resource from another country.” Black suggested the Pentagon, rather than the President may have been the driver of that decision.