, Columnist
Europe Is Getting Ready for the End of NATO
If Trump pulled the US out of the alliance, the European allies would no longer follow Washington’s lead on foreign policy.
Can Europe get it together?
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This is a column I never dreamed I’d be writing, as a former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But sadly, given all the skeptical and increasingly divisive rhetoric about the venerable alliance emanating from Washington and Europe in the early days of the second Donald Trump administration, it is time to think about what the world would look like geopolitically if the US pulled out.
Are we indeed in the last days of NATO? What would replace it, if anything? Or, if it survived, what would NATO look like without the US?