Oh, Baby, It’s a Wild World: Should NATO Collapse, Western Countries Will Be at Each Other’s Throat
SputnikNews.com
30.06.2015
The North Atlantic Alliance has long outlived the obvious reason for its existence, yet the bloc will be around for a long time regardless of any external threat and due to a major internal factor, namely Europe’s own violent history, the National Interest reported.
It has worked for nearly seven decades.
“By embedding almost all of Europe in a unified security architecture, powers that warred for centuries like France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom have no incentive to fight one another,” Evan Gottesman said, recalling the famous formula that gave birth to NATO: “keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down.”
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