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

Europe: A 2nd-Rate Power Sans Any Strategic Thought

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

- TS Eliot

It would be quite ironic if the war to prevent NATO from expanding to Ukraine were to ultimately result in the disbandment or debasement of the world’s most successful security alliance — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). 

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]