Jonathan Rosenthal
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first heard Jun 2026
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For months Mark Ritter, the Secretary General of NATO, has refused to admit the fact that the Transatlantic Alliance, this incredible partnership that has kept the peace in Western Europe since the Second World War, is basically falling apart.
And that's required a fair degree of willful blindness on Mr.
Rutter's part to the fact that President Donald Trump has said he does not think he wants to honor the central promise of NATO, which is that an attack on one is an attack on all.
Blindness to the fact that Donald Trump has been threatening to and pulling troops out of Europe and withdrawing key capabilities.
The days in which that blindness could continue are coming to an end.
I spoke to a bunch of senior military officials, senior officers across several European countries in NATO, and they're all saying that the time now is to start thinking about a plan B.
This operates at a couple of levels, and the first is the one that people talk about most, and that's just basic capabilities.
Now, military folk love the acronym ISR, which is intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance.
And America does that very well.
It provides its European allies with incredible intelligence, as we saw before the the war in Ukraine.
It basically had the battle plans that Russia was bringing out.
But there's a lot more to NATO and America's participation than just.
These capabilities.
NATO's real strength is that it's not just a kind of alliance where people show up on the day with whatever they've got and they fight along together.
NATO is this really highly practiced orchestra with a single conductor, and that's under the leadership of America that lets it fight under a unified command.
And more importantly, America is kind of the glue that keeps European NATO together.
As long as the US is in there, you don't have France and Germany squabbling about who should be in charge.
There's a real worry that without that glue, other bits of NATO start coming unstuck.
In some ways you've got to have sympathy for the man.
His job is to try and hold the alliance together.
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