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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn a stunning shift announced today, NATO stripped the United States of key NATO commands
The beginning of the end of NATO.
https://civilwarii.substack.com/p/us-stripped-from-key-nato-commands
Easterncedar
(5,933 posts)ck4829
(37,554 posts)If I have to choose between NATO and the White House, I will pick NATO every time, and I don't even care who is president at the time.
Cha
(317,976 posts)Country Over the Fascist PEDO WH.. of course!
A Democratic President would be a Part of NATO Against the Fascist Dictators of the World... like Russia, China, North Korea,...
The Rest Listed Here...
Current World Dictators
https://planetrulers.com/current-dictators/
greatauntoftriplets
(178,773 posts)I'm on NATO's side, also the EU's.
sheshe2
(96,880 posts)Whyisthisstillclose
(565 posts)the world well for over 80 years in a matter of months.
SheltieLover
(78,979 posts)msongs
(73,366 posts)Bev54
(13,368 posts)news sources, I remember reading a few.
Bread and Circuses
(1,786 posts)Right itself in the next election or two.
This county is institutionalized fascism, fully supported by billionaires .
Im rooting for the Europeans to rise in economic, military and political power.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Cha
(317,976 posts)Also Hoping For This!
wnylib
(25,433 posts)They know what's happening and are dealing with it.
SunSeeker
(58,030 posts)I watched this clip of economist Justin Wolpers who pointed out that although it is nice that our stock market rose 16% over the last year to hit 50,000 for the Dow, the European stock market rose 38% during that same time period.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21029121
Irish_Dem
(80,596 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,349 posts)so didn't happen "today."
Fearmongers' delight.
BaronChocula
(4,299 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 18, 2026, 10:47 PM - Edit history (1)
Not a dissolution. Lardass could respond by withdrawing in which case NATO will become strictly a European entity, so I think.
On edit: Ooops, forgot about Canada.
RockRaven
(19,022 posts)and now our military and intelligence services are likewise as a result.
This was all avoidable. Everyone you know who voted for The Dotard or didn't vote at all are the authors of this sad chapter. This is all on all of them.
FakeNoose
(41,027 posts)Are they finally paying attention?
Beartracks
(14,498 posts)Iggo
(49,813 posts)ybbor
(1,730 posts)Someone posted it then.
Still stupid crazy turn of events.
Apparently, the French and another country that I cant recall shared bogus info with US intelligence, and it ended up in Russias hands, so they knew we could no longer be trusted. Pretty sad.
ShazzieB
(22,409 posts)I really don't see how NATO has any other choice. Anyone with half a brain knows that Trump is irresponsible, unreliable, and incompetent. Trusting him with any responsibility whatsoever would be madness. (And yet here WE are, stuck with him.
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NATO is doing what they need to do, pure and simple. This sucks beyond belief, but it's all HIS fault and the fault of those who enable him. (Spineless Republican wienies in Congress, I'm looking at ALL of you!
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lame54
(39,379 posts)It will need to because of us
MissouriDem47
(406 posts)Trump will have accomplished the job Putin wanted him to do.
Martin Eden
(15,502 posts)Russia Russia Russia is not a hoax.
niyad
(131,048 posts)iemanja
(57,680 posts)The rise of European command over NATO. That is not the end of NATO.
Historic NY
(39,876 posts)The United States will turn over two of NATO's major command posts - in Naples, Italy and Norfolk, Virginia - to European officers, a military source told Reuters on Monday.
The move is in keeping with U.S. President Donald Trump's demands that European nations take more responsibility for their own security. His administration has called for the military alliance, long dominated by the United States, to become a "European-led NATO".
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-turn-over-2-nato-command-posts-europeans-military-source-says-2026-02-09/]
Deuxcents
(26,278 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(177,634 posts)This move did not surprise me
Scubamatt
(280 posts)Future historians are going to wonder at the mass delusion that is Trumpism. I'm so old I remember when Republicans used to be against anything that Russia wanted . . .
bluestarone
(21,814 posts)America has to make a decision, and make a decision SOON! Very SCARY shit happening here.