@natecull Hail Open Source and the Atlanticists!
Methinks you buy the military zero-sum empire building dialectic.
"The Atlantic Council essentially is NATO’s think tank and is financed with money from the U.S. government, Gulf oil states, military contractors, global financial institutions and many other sources which stand to gain directly or indirectly from the expanding U.S. military budget and NATO interventions."
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/09/30/russia-new-age-mccarthyism/