About every twelve months, I write an essay piece to the topic of dismantling or dissolving NATO.
Over the next two years, a US election, a French election, a German election, a US-UK trade agreement, and a UK-EU 'parting' agreement will occur. Somewhere in the middle of this....a whole bunch of European countries will admit that the Coronavirus has disrupted their commerce and taxation system, and major budget cuts are coming down the pike.
While all of this is falling into play, I think the idea of dismantling NATO will finally come up, and we will see a modified future of defense in Europe.
The US will probably develop a special situation with the UK.....US bases in Germany will start to close down, and new realities will arrive.
The intellectuals all hyping up and trying to keep threat-chatter or war-chatter up as a problem? They've outlived their usefulness.
The minute when the Germans put up the deal to buy more natural gas via the Russians....the whole threat thing became a joke. The Germans are singlehandly helping to pay for tanks and aircraft for the Russians. What idiot from the Russian side or the European side would disrupt this whole game?
Trump in this next era (2021)? A new Chancellor for Germany after the fall of 2021? A new French President in the spring of 2022?
There's this bold new era coming. You can sense the changes approaching, and something called NATO will be getting an ending-chapter. It served a purpose, and it probably lasted twenty years into an era when it should have been downsized every five years or so.
It's not worth crying over, or dragging people into some public forum for five intellectuals to stomp their feet for an hour. People change, and the times reflect that.
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