The main result is that US allies themselves make far too little effort. The solution: dissolve NATO, thus forcing the EU to mount its own autonomous European defence, and then a new alliance can be concluded with the EU as such. Mutatis mutandis, the same applies to US allies in Asia. A whole new school of “restrainers” has now emerged in US universities and think tanks. This is not some marginal view, therefore. It’s only in Europe that many decision-makers still believe that the US cavalry will always come and save us – or try to convince themselves of that against better knowledge.
