[sunshine-o]

NATO has been over for decades, it is now just useful to the US military complex to secure one of their market.

Worst the concept of "European allies" is not real. At the end of WW2 Western Europe became a colony or dominion of the US like Eastern Europe got under USSR control. Europeans might have been told something else by their politicians and intellectuals but it is because they were allowed to save face and part of the "Free World" propaganda.

As the last "EU leaders" of the WW2 generation faded away the next one were too stupid to understand what they are.

At the same time the US got confused too. It probably doesn't know if it is the Roman Republic or Empire. So now everybody is confused.

One thing is for sure the so called EU leadership is of very low quality and they have absolutely no idea what they are doing. They have antagonised their own population and about every other centers of power: the US, Russia and China. No regime can survive this.

My guess is Europe is gonna be split in two again (the fracture line is starting to be clear) or worst go through a hybrid civil war before and rot for a while.