German Foreign Minister Doubts NATO’s Survival

by Martin Armstrong,Armstrong Economics:

When former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says openly, “I have my doubts about NATO’s survival,” people should understand the significance of that statement. This is not coming from some fringe anti-war activist or outsider. Fischer was one of the central architects of modern German foreign policy and one of the strongest advocates for NATO intervention during the Kosovo War. For someone like him to now question the survival of the alliance tells you how dramatically the geopolitical landscape has shifted.

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What is unfolding now is precisely what I have warned about for years. NATO was always held together by a common enemy and by the financial and military dominance of the United States. Once confidence in American leadership begins to fracture, the alliance itself starts to weaken. Fischer admitted exactly that when he stated, “We simply cannot rely on the U.S. anymore in the future,” adding that the trust underpinning the trans-Atlantic alliance “is gone.”

That statement alone would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Europe built its entire postwar security structure around the assumption that the United States would always act as guarantor. Now European leaders are openly discussing creating a “European NATO,” expanding nuclear deterrence independently of Washington, and rebuilding military conscription. Fischer himself has called for mandatory military service and even advocated integrating British and French nuclear weapons into a European defense structure.

This is not happening because Europe suddenly became strong. It is happening because Europe realizes it has become vulnerable. The irony here is extraordinary. Fischer came from Germany’s Green movement, a political faction historically opposed to militarization and NATO expansion. Yet today he is demanding rearmament, nuclear deterrence, and a continental military structure because the geopolitical reality has changed completely. Even he now says suspending German conscription was a mistake.

What people fail to understand is that NATO was never designed to last forever. It was a Cold War structure created to contain the Soviet Union. After the Soviet collapse, NATO expanded anyway, continually moving eastward despite repeated warnings from Russia. I have written many times that once the Soviet Union fell, NATO lost its original purpose and transformed into a political instrument used to justify intervention and maintain American influence in Europe.