LamaGT
Emperor
There is no war against Sunni Islam, so no ally is needed.
Likewise, there is no conflict between NATO and Russia. There is a conflict where Russia tries to keep dominion over its former allies, whom would rather join the EU and NATO as they've decided that the grass is in fact greener on the other side.
There will be no war between NATO and Russia, at least not this time. And while the fear of Russian aggression is lessened in Western Europe, it's still very much alive in Eastern Europe.
It's less than thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Give it another thirty years, and Ukraine will probably be even more prosperous than Poland is at the moment. And by then, things should have softened up in Russia too.
I wonder what would happen if a state suddenly decided to drop out of NATO? Would the US be so quick to execute "the will of the people" if that happened?
Public opinion is very easy to build up, because certainly the grass is greener on ther other side. What they don't mention is that the grass on the other side is green for completely unrelated reasons, and moreover there are patches of dead grass. If people were pointed out to that, I'm sure a lot of them would stop believing the EU is going to save them all and instead get it done by themselves.
Anyway, If NATO is truly a voluntary defensive pact among concerned nations it should have been disbanded on the day the Warsaw Pact was disbanded. But since it's merely a tool of the US for political and military hegemony, it never happened, because the US "won" the war.