How Europe Shot Itself In The Foot By Allowing Uncle Sam A Veto On Its Defence Choices

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

- TS Eliot

The Warsaw Pact ended when the Soviet Union collapsed; NATO will shrivel when its prime mover — the US — decides that it has other uses for its money. As in TS Eliot's poem above, the end of NATO may come not with a dramatic bang, but a whimper.

Donald Trump’s America has already indicated that it wants a new relationship with Russia, and if that means some of Ukraine’s (and Europe's) interests will be sold down the river, so be it... [continue reading]