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The Aggression Against Iran Marks the End of NATO

 Significant divisions exist today between U.S. President Trump and several European leaders. Tensions arose when he expressed his intention to annex Greenland, an autonomous territory under Denmark.

The Israeli-American aggression against Iran has deepened these divisions. Washington sought the support of European countries, but many refused. During an exchange with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, Trump even raised the possibility of the United States withdrawing from NATO.

Founded in 1949 to face the Soviet Union, NATO should have disappeared with the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact (a military alliance of Soviet bloc countries). Instead of that, it expanded, growing from 12 members at its creation to 32 today.

A U.S. withdrawal would mark the end of NATO and allow a return to a more normal situation, opening the way to a new European space based on economic cooperation and cultural exchange, “from the Urals to the Atlantic.”

Paradoxically, the aggression against Iran could accelerate this reassessment and pave the way for a new international balance founded on peace and cooperation.

Benyounès Saidi

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