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Is This the End of NATO?
Would it mean an European Army or NATO without the USA?
We are just a few days into the second presidency of Donald Trump, and it looks like it’s going to be as bad as we feared.
After disowning it during his campaign, Trump is following the 2025 Project playbook.
He is firing thousands of federal employees in regulatory positions, probably in preparation to replacing them with loyalist.
He has paralyzed the NIH, the largest scientific organization in the world, by not allowing it to carry the meetings (Study Sections) that it needs to adjudicate billions of dollars in research grants. Without this money, all American universities will have to stop their most important missions.
He has sent his minions at ICE to business, churches and hospitals, detaining immigrants and USA citizens alike.
However, it’s in the international arena where he is probably doing the most harmful and long-term damage.
He wants the USA to take over Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.
This proposition is so extreme that nobody can take it seriously. Why? Because it threatens the most basic principles of international order and the most important alliance of the USA, NATO. If Trump were to make good on his…
