The error is that we didn't recognise in 2008 (Russian invasion of Georgia) or 2014 (First Russian invasion of Ukraine) that the situation had changed. (View Post)

I think we are again seeing the consequences of an absence of leadership. (View Post)

I think that organisationally there's been quite a lot of work to prepare for a NATO either without the US, or with a reluctant US. And there are also structures that have been created in parallel to… (View Post)

There are key capability gaps, yes, and also a general lack of mass. (View Post)

NATO without America is still the collective self-defence of dozens of democracies that would mostly struggle to defend themselves individually. In some ways NATO is even more important without Ameri… (View Post)