Discussion on NATO and Military History

Well, no, whe- when did you join the ar- army, uh, Jim?

About

50 years ago.

50 years ago.

How many times,

uh, in your lifetime, uh, the Article 5 was triggered at,

at NATO?

Only once.

Yeah. So this is not fair.

Nobody's criticizing NATO as a paper tiger, but, you know, when it's

comes to only newborn, uh, a defense alliance

just shown a,

a crisis which is 10 years old,

Yemen crisis, they're saying, "Look, it's not working." We've just

started.

Okay.

Fair enough.