NATO is Falling Apart and the EU is Faltering
Published 5th February 2026
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Both organizations need to reinvent themselves and break free from US influence.
NATO‘s crisis didn’t begin with Trump’s disruptive policies. Trump’s wish to take over Greenland is merely the latest absurd turn in an increasingly illegitimate, imperialistic US policy. Previous presidents have also turned away from Europe and toward other regions. Barack Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ and the NATO dispute over Bush’s Iraq War illustrate these divisions. The signals were certainly heard in Europe; however, over the past decades the political will and unity within Europe to take effective steps to break free from the dependencies of the US were insufficient.
Trump’s demand to increase military spending to five per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) should already have been a wake-up call for Europeans. A sober analysis of the defence weaknesses of the European part of NATO quickly reveals that the problem isn’t a lack of funds. According to NATO, European NATO countries have spent around $3.5 trillion during the last decade. That is not too little. The problem is that these resources are being spent in typical European parochialism—in each individual country, without a convincing common strategy. The result: Waste occurs through duplication in arms procurement. The arms manufacturers in the various countries are rejoicing.
European governments have submitted to Trump’s dictates instead of focusing on their own strengths and finding a united response. To keep Trump happy and supportive of Ukraine, the European NATO countries signalled their willingness to soon allocate the desired five per cent of their GDP to military spending and, of course, to buy weapons from the US. The line of European sycophants to Washington, spearheaded by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, is growing ever longer.
Now, with Trump’s announcements of wishing to annex Greenland, with the blatant US attack on an ally, the realization seems to have dawned that this supposed partner in Washington cannot be relied upon. Europeans should clearly distance themselves from the US’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean, from its threats against other countries, from its search for spheres of influence, and from its colonial ambitions.
It is time to act to achieve European independence by building a European defence alliance. Such an alliance should not be guided by geopolitical rivalries or imperialist ambitions cultivated in various forms by the USA, China, and Russia. Instead of fatalistically looking to Washington and waiting for the next blunder by the chaotic president, European independence or autonomy is essential. This would strengthen Europe’s position vis-à-vis both the Trump administration and Russia. This is not a new idea. As early as 1978, the European Parliament published its first report which called for better cooperation on defence within the EU.
Headlines are continuing to show that something will divide the USA and Europe and they will separate from NATO and this is based on Bible Prophecy. But its surprising how fast things are changing and few if any would have seen this coming.
What is also interesting is the EU is saying they need to Re-Arm and President Emmanual Macron says that the EU needs hundreds of billions in defense spending.
President Macron is also on record saying he wants to bring Russia back to the negotiating table and begin dialogue on some form of a Security Pact with Russia, NATO’s existence in its current form will be an issue even more so now.
The Bible has long revealed that Russia and an EU Army will enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East. Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”. Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days. So Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe. It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.
Yet again we see in Todays News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible.
See this article to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible.
See this article for more on this subject: WHAT IS NEXT FOR EUROPE
