The End of NATO || June 19, 2026
The Trump administration has said that it is now policy to not send meaningful reinforcements to Europe in case of a military conflict. Most notably, super carriers, carrier aviation, extra fighter jets, aerial refueling, airlift capacity, air defense, and precision munitions.
It guarantees a divergence in training, doctrine, and the ability of the various countries of the alliance to function as a unit. For all intents and purposes, NATO is now gone.
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Comments (84)
Much better video. I can see your face. Thank you for ditching those stupid Orange sunglases
The Europeans haven’t been buying shit and baby sitting them has not helped US
True, china would wipe the floor with us if we aren’t careful
End of NATO. The dream of putin. And trump, affectively one mind. If China were to attack then wouldn't it be a good idea if America ran it's stocks of missilles down. Of course, in trump's mind. Well done. China will win because President Xi thinks long term. As we know, trump only worries about his next million.
A reshaped NATO without a fickle USA bopefully.
Other member nations have already begun planning for a world with a erratic and feckless United States. Good for them.
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So fare thee well then Trump and associates. No more will we be subjected to your mindless brickbats ,illogical, and irrational ramblings. Europe has survived for a long long time and will continue to do so. Not at all like your bullying fledgling nation. A bastion of democracy indeed !! Home of international peacekeeping hahaha ROFL. More like the home of isolationism 😡🔥💥
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So we were in charge of NATO? And when we said we’ll land at a NATO country base and they told us to piss off that showed our true status. We should no longer be paying for the world’s security. Does no one understand the national debt?
NATO has outlived it's relevance since 1991. It's a dead organization
trump will go down in history as this nation's biggest traitor.
The EU is as rich as the USA? We all know Europe won’t help with China. The USA can’t afford the military we do have let alone one that could fight Russia in europe and China in Asia at the same time. Yes, Trump and his team are bad people and we could have gone about this realignment in a greater spirit of friendship but it had to happen.
How much of a threat will Russia actually be in the future (nukes aside)? Would seem that between the demographic issues PZ has discussed previously, along with the loss of people of fighting age used up in Ukraine, Russia will have limited capability to invade Europe in the future. Would a future euro/Russia conflict focus more on attempted destruction of infrastructure utilizing remote (drone) technologies? Weaken Europe as opposed to taking it over?
1. Timing is 100% intended as a 'gimme' to Putin. 2. WarFighter Hegseth has neutered the US military. 3. Cuts in sales to Europe will dramatically increase the cost of domestic US weapons procurement. 4. US has lost credibility for freedom of navigation enforcement. 5. Elections have consequences. Candidates are not "all the same".
Donald Trump has changed the world order. The US is not the powerhouse that we once were.
Americans are meh on China. We know the enemy is Israel.
The facsised hyper neo liberals, Trumpist and Maga cult. Have damaged the USA, past the point of no return. Half the population of USA suffer from gross intergenerational ignorance. The other half are plainly politically and militarily impotent.
Trump as usual practicing his mental illnesses. He is not mentally fit to run let alone his age and all his other monsenses. That war has cost us all an f'ing fortune killed how many and achieved nothing except a fake/false deal at the end of it.
He said war with China…. 😭😭😭. We couldn’t sort Iran
It's a tantrum, not an order.
The main thing Europe needs the US for defensively, is to be covered under the US’s nuclear shield.
Europe just needs to embrace and celebrate this US Administrations break; just as NZ did in the mid 1980's with banning of US armed nuclear warships. Fun Fact: the world didn't end and NZ exports to the world and tourist numbers grew. Frankly, long term, I only see a positive European gain, albeit requiring some short-term growing pain.
The end of nuclear non-proliferation. A dozen countries are going have to hop quickly onto ICBM/Hydrogen Bomb development, including Germany and Poland
What happened to Congress?
I’ve never seen someone so disappointed to see their predictions come true - get over your TDS and ride the wave or just end up another doomer hack which you can find for free on YouTube. The Dotard is not a permanent fixture and change, even obviously necessary change, often needs an impetus or crisis to compel a sense of urgency.
I certainly agree that a sense of urgency forced him to surrender. Iran is in a better strategic position than when this started. The Iranian people are being hung out to dry. Pallets and pallets and pallets of cash have been promised if they just allow Trumpstein a little fig leave to cover his retreat. I agree the Dontard is on his way out. It's a race between impeachment or the syphillis.
Good and bad all around, but fresh and change when there hasn't been fresh and change is quite good for everyone.
There goes the basing structure. They're not to allow US bases in Europe, if there's no benefit for them to be there.
OK. NATO must learn how to work with a decoupled US. One of the first steps must be to remove the US commander from having top authority.
And request the US immediately begin shutting down their bases. 90 days to vacate.
Damn. It. 🤦🏻♂️
About time Europe needs to stands on its own. This is nothing new and it’s a policy that been threatened since Reagan! Time for Europe to take care of Europe now not in some ten year plan that will never happen. I hear the UK will spend billions in the next ten years but zero on the details. Why would you spend when you can sponge off Uncle Sam like NATO has done throughout its existence!
Those Europe bases are just as useful to us to be able to project power where our carriers can't reach. If we lose those, it will be a great harm to our ability to protect the Homeland. There might come a day when we bitterly regret throwing those away needlessly. Sure, you will point out one or two extreme cases where they would not allow their air space to be used (as is their right), but Reagan always said you don't destroy an alliance when you disagree on 20% when you can still find common cause on the other 80%. I think America and the World could use more Reaganism and less Trumpism.
Except, this is Trump. He'll reverse course the minute he figures out that it isn't popular, until the next time he talks to Putin.
Well now he is unpopular with everyone. lol First he shits on MTG, Tucker, Sean Ryan and the America First crowd, but then after burning that alliance, he TACO's and burns his bridges with the AIPAC\Israel First coven. It would be ironic if in the end Trumpstein unites all Americans in their hatred of him. We have finally found common ground, except for the residual 12% dregs who worship him in some sick authoritarian false idolatry cult. That gets down to a small enough number that they could be isolated and euthanized if necessary.
Omg I’m so excited! This feels like the beginning of Rollerball!
haha gr8 movie...
This country leads the world in stupid!
Yes, yes it does.
Okay. Poland, you’re in charge until we get back.
Your transcript title has a typo.
The U.S. needs to have troops in EUROPE with no restrictions with no end date
Invasion? When you are a guest in someone's home there are always restrictions and a possible end-date if they get tired of you or you become more trouble than you are worth.
Sorry to see this become Facebook official. At least the people of Greenland will feel a bit relieved that the US military won't visit Europe.
Rejiggering political and strategic treaties doesn't affect any back channel collaboration. It doesn't change the fact that the sanctions are in place, that they are global, or they include private sectors/actors. The fact is the China theatre won't involve EU forces, particularly in proportion to their take from that theatre (trade).
The bright side is we don't have to pretend to be allies of Hungary or Turkey anymore.
Interoperability seems like a technical problem that can be solved in an age where I can take any two pieces of technology and ask an AI to code drivers and a communication protocol.
You can't code away differences in caliber.
And just so you know the last time Europe was fully militarized and armed to the teeth it had too much fun that culminated into 2 world wars but this is a problem 50-75 years down the road. 🤣🤣🤣
The only realistic threat in Europe is Russia. It has been shown to be paper bear in conventional warfare. Only a madman would resort to WMDs/nukes. Putin might qualify but I think that is a low probability. Except for Kaliningrad, Russia does not abut NATO. Just how reliable is Belarus as a Russian ally? Would it be willing to be a barrleground against NATO? I note it's lack of involvement in Ukraine after that first disastrous time.
So, this is how Trump will circumvent Congress in his plan to destroy the alliance. Is the Brilliant Secretary of War going to abandon all the pre-positioned equipment in Europe or spend the cash to bring it all home? Perhaps Trump is expecting the Europeans to buy it all. I understand that Europe has been complacent in its dependence on our military, but is this the way to get them to step up? Again, the sledgehammer solution for instant gratification. We have a President with the intellect of a child. Again, Trump has handed Putin a lifeline. Weakness encourages aggression.
I hope the syphilis hurries up.
What are the remaining threats to the USA? Like Peter has said in the past, Ukraine was Russia's last stand before demographics catch up with it. China's interests are too closely aligned with the US to seriously consider an attack. Venezuela has fallen under US influence and Cuba seems next in line.
The USA is the predominant threat to the USA as it reverts itself into a 19th century regional backwater.
👁 told you Peter, 50/50 at best the "Iranian peace agreement" lasts through the full week. If it is not Totally Obliterated yet. As close to Obliterated as it gets 🐝4 total obliteration. This isn't over by a long shot. The Iranian Conflict will persist ... 😐 Utter Buffoonery within The current ◻️🏠 Administration.
You just have TDS. Trump Disgust Sickness.
In this new "NATO" context, would anyone be surprised if Russia will try to negotiate.. perhaps all the way to joining the new EU defence alliance? Or is this too far fetched?
While engaging in war with a European nation?
The China threat is a diversion, Russia is the threat to Europe. Trump has as usual, destroyed a long functioning institution and will likely side with Russia against Europe. Anybody foolish enough to follow Trump and Hegseths very limited and incompetent leadership? See Iran...
Trump would love to align with Russia and be another Putin. Let his friends the oligarchs plunder the country, be president for life. Russia is a “white Christian country with lots of nukes. If we deport all the blacks and browns, we can be mostly white like Russia. Europe has too many swarthy immigrants to be our friends. Trump and Putin can rule the world on the backs of a servient lower class. What’s not to like with that?
This is not surprising, the drunk and wife cheater/beater in my mind has always been a sycophant and quasi Russian asset. The little fella is so emasculated by black people and women who are smarter and braver than him he is actively undermining their careers… It is not surprising that he would work to undermine American power I also fail to see what military overlap there would be between the predominantly naval and air fight in the Pacific versus the predominantly ground fight in Europe… I just do not picture the US Army landing Abrams tanks on mainland Asia to fight the Chinese… I feel like we have a long-standing proverb about getting bogged down in a ground war in Asia… perhaps Pete thinks we will have to send all of our destroyers on a suicide mission straight to Saint Petersburg… or maybe he was just drunk or sexting an enlisted soldier that he was a bit distracted when he told everyone what our strategic military positions were
Also the end of the Federal United States as a Government. It's fully the Trump Kingdom
We necessitate a French solution to our monarchy problems (for legal reasons, I must express that this is a joke)
A couple of questions; is this a Trump thing or was it coming and would it have happened with any other president and is this a reversible situation in the near term
Very MAGA. He cannot understand the benefit of influence and goodwill. He can only understand money in his pocket.
Welcome to the end of American Military-Industrial-Political Complex. Short those stocks in two years.
NATO == No American Trusted Organization
Comming from europe, I think the anwser is that this (president) happened now for the second time and why and how can we trust the US to ever become what it was supposed to be…and that within a time frame that can help europe. I (sadly) agree we can’t trust the US anymore and we ukraine we, as 1 europe have to find another way forward right now. We don’t have the luxury to wait for 2028 or even 2026
European trust was a useful byproduct of NATO but need will bring us back together if issues arise. But you’re nor wrong
Come on fellas, the SECDEF can’t set long term policy. And lord knows the current office holder isn’t a strategic thinker. Why would Europe not simply ignore this pronouncement and wait for 2028 before retooling their entire industrial system?
Well we have to understand a lot of the outrage is who’s in charge as this happens. Most of this is TDS outrage. NATOs future should be questioned the problem is the guy questioning it.
Going to be interesting to see how this pans out with Canada. They've linked into Europes security procurement plan. Are they going to stick to that, and would Washington be... Accepting of that as a position to take if Europe is going to be completely different in its war fighting posture.
I am very late to this comment but I saw a headline that Japan, Italy, and the UK are interested in Canada joining the new gen fighter program each have been working on.
Please tell me how abandoning NATO is not top of Putin's "To Do" list for Agent Krasnov (aka DJT)?
I believe it's called 100D chess
Glad midsummer from sweden peter. 🇸🇪🤗
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The end of the world is just the beginning
Yea he writes about this stuff years ago then seems shocked it’s actually happening. I think the bigger issue for Peter is who’s in charge as it’s happening.
They will just send thoughts and prayers
If we are on our own, then you are on your own too. And don't call us next time an airliner crashes deliberately on one of your skyscrapers.
The decision to abandon NATO is 100% not in U.S. national security interests and therefore just plain stupid. America will live to regret this strategic malfeasance!
What’s the point of NATO without the Russian threat? Russia lost the war therefore we must rethink European strategy. I find it interesting the Europeans are so offended we no longer care about them. It’s like a child being offended at their parents because Mom and Dad decided it’s time for you to move out and figure life out on your own. The nerve the Europeans have to wag thier finger at the U.S for refocusing its attention on its own hemisphere instead of the defense of Europe is insulting and arrogant. Of course in 60 or 70 years Europeans will do what they do best and start slathering each other again and some assholes probably the Germans will try to be big BIG DICK in change of the continent and the U.S will have to spill blood AGAIN because these European savages aren’t civilized unless the U.S is there maintaining peace. But that’s a problem for another day