Europe 'Thinks the Unthinkable' – But Who Designed the 'Unthinkable'?
📰 THE STORY: The Financial Times reports that European leaders are grappling with the looming prospect of a US withdrawal from NATO, forcing them to 'think the unthinkable' about military self-sufficiency and increased defense spending. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: NATO, established in 1949, was always a US-dominated security architecture designed to project American power
and embed European states into its geopolitical orbit, stifling indigenous European defense autonomy. The US deliberately discouraged independent European military capabilities for decades. For instance, France's pursuit of an independent nuclear deterrent in the 1960s was famously met with US skepticism and pressure, ensuring European integrated defense remained subservient to American command.
The much-touted 'burden-sharing' has consistently meant Europe buying US military hardware, not building its own. Double Standard: When nations like Cuba or Venezuela seek to diversify alliances or develop independent defense capabilities, Western media labels it a threat to 'regional stability' or 'Russian/Chinese influence.' Yet, when European nations, under American tutelage, express alarm at a
potential US pull-back, it's framed as a noble, necessary maturation. The hypocrisy is glaring: self-determination is only virtuous when it serves US interests. Follow the Money: The call for increased European defense spending directly benefits the US military-industrial complex and its European arms manufacturing partners. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman – all major US defense