The already forming personality split between the U.S. and its European NATO allies was on full public display in the section on Europe in the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America released in November. The document speaks of the “civilizational erasure” that will make Europe “unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” raising the question of “whether certain European countries will… remain reliable allies.” It says that “it is an open question” whether, with changing demographics, “certain NATO members… will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.” And it calls on Europe to “to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense.” The point wasn’t to extricate the U.S. from Europe, it was, as Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General of NATO explained, precisely “to keep the Americans in Europe.” By that criterion, NATO has been a massive success, as the Ukraine war has proven.
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Published at: 2026-01-31 23:00:00
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