Most of the readers of this Planet Earth column were born after the end of World War II in 1945. Initially, in peace, it seemed as if the allies against Hitler would remain “friends forever.” But it was not like that, and the possession of the Soviet atomic weapon caused the United States, in 1949, to confront the URS in what was called the Cold War, which would last no less than until 1991 with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The instrument that was designed at the end of the 1940s was the Treaty of Washington and the North Atlantic Organization, NATO. An entity that now the president of the United States, Trump, questions about its continuity. By understanding that his partners do not follow his mandates, his recommendations and personal orders to the letter, what he wants.
In a situation like this, the Europeans who are part of NATO begin to think, indeed, that the days of the organization as it was conceived and functioned until now, are ending. In that sense, I believe that the dissolution of NATO, or whatever you want to call it, should be an organization to ensure the peace of Europeans without the need for support from the United States. But it seems that military tension will continue to be maintained in a world, increasingly armed, with up to 5% of GDP from military spending. A crazy percentage of increasingly sophisticated bringers of death, sacrificing the well-being of Europeans, and, above all, breaking with the Schuman Declaration of 1950, of a Europe always for peace.
The truth is that there are some so crazy that they even imagine the possibility of a Europe, even with enough potential to one day lead to a US-Europe war.
Gentlemen, think more about peace and less about war, and let us all build a common future of peace without imposing a Eurodronia on ourselves forever.