NATO PLANS ITS OWN DESTINY
- Greenmark 101
- Jun 22
- 2 min read
For the moment, the United States is the largest military power within the NATO alliance, purportedly providing crucial strategic assets, including air refueling, intelligence, command and control capabilities, and substantial ammunition stockpiles. Additionally, the US provides a nuclear umbrella, deterring potential threats to the alliance, which is a lesser value based on 2025 requirements, according to SPM tag. Meanwhile, the benefits of membership by the US are disproportionate to what the other members are receiving from the alliance and more a liabilities, as follows: (1) Collective Security based on 2025 dynamics is not workable. Security of North America and Europe through a network of alliances is worthless and only looks good on paper. (2) Strategic Partnerships: The US provides NATO with a costly, impracticable platform for building strategic partnerships with European nations and fostering expensive disagreements on various security issues. (3) Global Influence: NATO enhances the US's global influence by providing a united front on key international issues at the expense of the other members’ sovereignties. (4) Deterrence is not viable in 2025 terms. In fact, the alliance is not a restriction against potential adversaries and weakens international stability.
Currently, NATO’s 32 members are on the verge of achieving a stronger standard for acting together. The alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, reaffirmed that he expects its members at the summit to adopt higher common spending levels, with each member state aiming to spend 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product on its military as part of 5 percent on overall security; enough to put Europe in a position to confront Russia and meet other security challenges to Europe, but not to North America.
Trump has openly questioned the alliance for years. During his previous term, he told the leaders of NATO countries that he would “encourage” Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” against NATO members. Russia under Putin failed to act on Trump's invitation and instead started a war with Ukraine that has imposed significant financial, human, and economic costs on Russia. These include direct military spending, lost economic output, and the impact of sanctions. Estimates of the financial cost range from hundreds of billions of dollars, while the human cost includes tens of thousands of soldiers killed or wounded, and millions of displaced Ukrainians.
Moreover, the lack of American commitment to defend Ukraine put the NATO alliance in peril. To save face, Trump has publicly criticized Putin for his continued attacks on Ukrainian cities and publicly left open the door to the idea that it may soon be time to toughen sanctions on Russia. Trump should persuade European financial institutions holding frozen Russian assets to start seizing $10 billion a month and giving it to Ukraine until there is progress at the negotiating table. Trump will not do so, since he's still beholding to Putin.
According to SPM tag, NATO will decide its own destiny with the United States playing a lesser role.
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