That’s what I am thinking. NATO is a USA centered alliance for looking after US interests. European interest happened to coincide with theirs for a long time, but clearly the USA is growing increasingly disinterested. Europeans should probably take over most of it, make it a Europe centered alliance.
But he said that it is pointless to try, that it is too expensive to try to defend Europe without the USA. Read the article. He ridiculed the idea of European defence without the USA.
How long before the EU parliament manages to sabotage this deal too?
I guess he is afraid that European independent security will make NATO irrelevant and in turn make him irrelevant (and unemployed). Go suck Trump’s dick harder, we still cannot hear the slurping from across the Atlantic. He’s gone native on us.
Is this even for real? We are not doing it just for fun, it is a necessity forced on us by Trump using the USA security leverage against us to conquer territory.
What the fuck does he want us to do? Just roll over and do what Trump wants? On whose side is he? Because he is not on Europe’s side.
Decoupling will be gradual and take many years, unless things escalate and the EU decides to decouple without an alternative in place.
That would however be extremely costly and I think they want to avoid that.
The advantage of a sudden shift is of course that change will happen faster due to necessity. But as I mentioned, at a greatly increased cost.
The question is how long will Europe stand being humiliated by Trump every second day?
Yeah the Arctic and North Atlantic are important to Europe without a doubt. No name change needed, just Europe taking more initiative, leadership and becoming more central in the organization.
Canada is a natural partner in the Arctic and North Atlantic. So is of course also the USA, but they cannot be trusted: (