{"id":702182,"date":"2026-07-13T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702182"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:08:57","slug":"natos-last-stand-american-thinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702182","title":{"rendered":"NATO&#8217;s Last Stand?  American Thinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Critics may be misreading the recent NATO summit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;And in the end, the U.S., Russia, and China will simply resume their global dominance and power alliance.<\/strong>\u00a0The EU will likely collapse or shrink; NATO will finally be decommissioned, and the old Atlantic Alliance will bypass Europe and align economically with Eurasia\u2019s east and south \u2014\u00a0<em>because that is where the power is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That is what the stages of growth predict.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The EU is also going to be further eclipsed commercially and militarily and by a rising Israel-dominated Middle East, because they know what they want, they have a plan, and they know how to fight.\u00a0\u00a0European bureaucrats like Rutte, Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen\u00a0<em>do not<\/em>, and face an interesting fate when they finally realize that this battle is likely their last political stand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The citizens of Europe may be relieved.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/natos-last-stand\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/natos-last-stand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics may be misreading the recent NATO summit.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;And in the end, the U.S., Russia, and China will simply resume their global dominance and power alliance.\u00a0The EU will likely collapse or shrink; NATO will finally be decommissioned, and the old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=702182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702183,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702182\/revisions\/702183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}