It was a stability based almost entirely on the deterrent and enforcement capacity that the United States possessed because of its great military and economic power. The ideas of a group of “middle powers” grouping together to assert themselves is a complete fantasy. In the last 30 years, as Trump has stated, NATO, apart from the United States, and the nuclear deterrent forces of France and the U.K., has been a low-rise house of cards. There are ample historic and contemporary reasons for that based on the many distinctions between the ethos of this country and that of the United States. The United States has made the greatest effort of any nation to raise up a previously forcibly suppressed racial minority in servitude to complete equality with the descendants of its former owners.

Source: National Post January 24, 2026 12:06 UTC