NATO doesn't look so eternal any more.

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I'd like to direct your attention to a 2014 blog post due to recent events:

"How NATO changed the perception of what an alliance is and does" 

/2014/02/how-nato-changed-perception-of-what.html

 

Systems sometimes just seem stable until they collapse suddenly. Dicatorships with thier often sudden demise are a good example.

NATO seemed to be a truly exceptional alliance with no parallel in history, but now it seems as if this uniqueness - if not even NATO itself - may collapse. 

There's still an alliance organisaiton, but there's now much distrust. Hungarians, Slovakians, Czechs and Americans are no more trustworthy.

The perception of NATO as eternal is shattered. There's much public talk about setting up a European alternative (Art. 42 Lisbon Treaty already exists, but people keep ignoring it) without the 5th cohorts of Putin and in part to protect AGAINST the U.S..

 

Sadly, we've had dismal quality politicians at the helm in European countries for ~45 years, so there's little hope for a swift, decisive and sensible reorientation of defence policy in Europe. 

 

related: 

/2016/11/leaving-nato.html

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