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At least since Donald Trump announced punitive tariffs on several European countries (including Germany) to pressure Greenland, many experts and politicians have been at a loss. According to them, NATO will never be the same again, and this could even be the fatal blow for the alliance.
Don't get me wrong: it's disturbing enough that an American president wants to take a piece of land belonging to a NATO ally. But the fact that worried Europeans are now talking about "the end of NATO" makes the situation even more dangerous.
The dramatic warning is unjustified for two reasons.
First, he scares us much more than Donald Trump, who has the most powerful military in the world and a large nuclear arsenal.
Second, we must be careful that our words about the end do not become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Because the bitter truth is that Europe needs NATO much more than the U.S. does. And that's true even if Trump manages to take Greenland from the Danes.
Of course, Europeans shouldn't accept every request from the White House, they shouldn't accept every offer to buy. But predicting the death of the alliance that guarantees our security against Russia's nuclear warhead is not a good idea.
Our immediate interest should be not to minimize the crisis that Trump caused, but at the same time to make it clear that NATO must and will definitely continue to exist.
Particularly astutely, Polish historian Slawomir Debski recalled in X previous NATO crises, which the alliance has successfully weathered. His message: “NATO will only be destroyed if it fails to defend its territory. Currently, nothing threatens this fundamental task. This is the paradox: the rhetoric is apocalyptic, the politics ugly – but the alliance continues to exist. For now.”
He is right: NATO's crisis is quite deep. Warnings about the end of NATO do not improve anything, on the contrary they make everything worse./ BILD
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