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Posted on 04/14/2026 5:28:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A fallback plan to ensure Europe can defend itself using NATO’s existing military structures if the U.S. departs is gaining traction after getting buy-in from Germany, a long-term opponent of a go-it-alone approach.
The officials working on the plans, which some officials are referring to as “European NATO,” are seeking to get more Europeans into the alliance’s command-and-control roles and supplement U.S. military assets with their own.
The plans—advancing informally through side discussions and over dinner meetings in and around the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—aren’t intended to rival the current alliance, participants said. European officials are aiming to preserve deterrence against Russia, operational continuity and nuclear credibility even if Washington withdraws forces from Europe or refuses to come to its defense, as President Trump has threatened.
The plans, first conceived last year, underscore the depth of European anxiety over U.S. reliability. They accelerated after Trump threatened to seize Greenland from fellow NATO member Denmark, and are now gaining fresh urgency amid the standoff over Europe’s refusal to back America’s war in Iran.
Crucially, a political reversal in Berlin is boosting momentum. For decades, Germany resisted French-led calls for greater European sovereignty in its defense, preferring to keep America as the ultimate guarantor of European security. That is now changing under German Chancellor Friedrich Merz because of concerns about the U.S.’s dependability as an ally during the Trump presidency and beyond, according to people familiar with his thinking.
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They were always going to do this.
They’ve got very little personnel or equipment having chronically underfunded their militaries for decades. In addition to that, the young men in every western European country are not going to fight for the corrupt political class which hates them and which has flooded their countries with muslim and African rapefugees which it forces them to pay for....AFTER crushing their economies with idiotic Gaia Worship.
NATO would lose to ...well, pretty much anyone, save for the fact that France and the UK (future Islamic third world hellholes) have nukes.
If NATO nations are serious then they must stop all Muslim immigration and boot them off all welfare and housing programs. They must boot out of power/purge the Left-Islam alliance wherever it exists. No more rule by wacky feminists.
The population of Europe is larger than the population of the USA. There is no reason the USA should be the largest contributor to NATA.
Should have pulled out and shot it on the wall long ago.
Good luck with that. The mental midgets running Europe will cock that up too.
what you said,
Damn Straight !
“...because of concerns about the U.S.’s dependability as an ally during the Trump presidency...”
Isn’t it the “dependability” of the European nations that brought us to this point?
Great. So they can stop their free healthcare and importing of Islamists at their tax payers expense and fund their military.
Win-Win for the USA>
One the EEU formed, NATO was dead. They can form their own defense, and we can work with them.
Once*
Nah, russia is pretty damn crappy. They can’t even defeat their former satelite with ancient russian weapons at the start of the war.
Fact is the USA is so far beyond all other nations because the USA lies to us about the other nations capabilities.
Perhaps “dependability” is the root cause of the situation that the euroweenies now find themselves faced with.
Yeah, that's it.
Good. Their woke ass can provide for themselves.
Name suggestion for their “Plan B”: NEUTO
Given Ukraine’s role in the anti-Trump conspiracy, Trump needs to start sending military aid to Russia.
You make a good, but frightening point. You have the crazy 7th century barbarian muzzies that are getting slapped real hard in Iran and yet you have at least two NATO countries that are being taken over from within by devil worshippers.
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