Alexander S. Vindman 🇺🇸 reposted
Veterans For Responsible Leadership @VetsForRL Jan 14

For all 82nd Airborne veterans that have ever served in the Global Response Force Brigade, you know the importance of a strong NATO alliance. We would have multiple training exercises every year where we would conduct airborne operations with our NATO allies, getting ready to deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice.

We had two mottos with our NATO brothers and sisters and they were “Defend Democracy” and “Stronger Together”. The NATO paratroopers that we served and trained alongside were first class warriors that had our back. The only time that Article 5 has ever been invoked was right after 9/11 and our NATO allies came to our defense in Afghanistan and Iraq and served with great honor and immense courage.

It never crossed our mind for a single second that an American President would be the single reason for the erosion of the greatest alliance the world has ever known. It is a disgrace, it harms our national security, and the free world may never trust us as a reliable ally again. Make no mistake about it, abandoning the NATO alliance makes our country much weaker.

To any veterans of an allied country that may see this, we just want to apologize for the disgusting betrayal by our government. You do not deserve this treatment and there are still millions of veterans in America that love, respect, and support the NATO alliance. We hope we can build it back one day when Trump is gone. We are fighting everyday to get a pro-democracy and anti-authoritarian President back in office in 2028.

Airborne! All the way!