NATO is NEXT as Collateral Damage: US and Israeli Genocide, Media Slipups and Wars of Choice?

Growing disagreements between the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Alliance are intensifying the debate over NATO’s future and casting doubt on the resilience of the collective security system formed after the Cold War.

In a fit of revealing frustration, Marco Rubio suggested that the decades-old bargain underpinning the foundation of NATO may have quietly lost ground—at least from Washington’s perspective. Pressed by Sean Hannity of Fox News as to why America should keep footing the bill, Rubio painted an alliance that works flawlessly—right up until the United States actually wants to use it, as shown by individual NATO members who won’t let the US use their bases or fly over their territory to carry out the joint Israeli-American war against Iran.

The complaint is almost poetic: the U.S. pays for the stage, builds the set, and stations the actors, and then it gets told it can’t use the theater when the show begins. If access to bases and overflight rights can be withheld at the moment of need, Rubio avers, NATO starts to look less like a strategic partnership and more like a very expensive security subscription with regional restrictions — albeit strings attached.

Now there is a real possibility that Washington may soon decide it doesn’t need allies who hesitate, just as those same allies increasingly wonder whether they need a superpower that doesn’t. In this mutual reassessment, the unspoken headline practically writes itself: an alliance where both sides are quietly preparing for life without the other, each convinced it is the more indispensable half.

It is also worth mentioning that America cannot afford the financial costs that NATO runs up, due to its lack of the ability to deliver, and do its part of the heavy lifting. Nonetheless, NATO, for all its good intentions, is being transformed into an organization that is more rhetoric than reality.

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