United States President Trump’s attempt to take possession of Greenland, plus the speeches and drama among world leaders at the latest Davos conclave, returned the future of NATO to the forefront of pressing political issues. And, like any hot topic of the day, the controversy has generated a lot of writing about the alliance’s present state and its future.
The vast majority of commentators rightfully present NATO as one of the most important achievements of the United States and its European allies since the end of World War II. Observers lament the current state of the alliance and look nostalgically to the past as the golden years of NATO and a blueprint for its potential eventual rejuvenation.
What those observers tend to conveniently forget to mention is the actual history of NATO. It was not all rosy and calm as many want the readers to believe. That history contains shocks not unlike the latest crisis between the US and its European allies, together with some even more ground-shaking.
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