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Very good. This is the start of a very desirable NATO sans US - or whatever it should be renamed - and it's high time. In a way, Trump's idiocy may have precipitated a very healthy redefinition of transatlantic relationships.
True. But we're dealing with a toddler to the south. A move like this, as good as it is, is going to antagonize his annexation talk to the point where he might actually try something.
This is going to get worse before it gets better. But yes, I think we'll come out the other side a far better world without the U.S. as a superpower.
why rename it? it's a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation with or without the US
The same reason IG Farben was renamed BASF after the war: there was nothing wrong with the name and it was the same company core (minus a few bits) but IG Farben was a bit too associated with Zyklon B.
NATO is intimately associated with the US for historical reasons. A new name would signal a willingness to put down the historical baggage and start afresh.
Except the US is in NATO, so there's no NATO without the US unless they leave.
atp I'm already assuming they'll leave
Not if Trump (or whoever is really pulling the strings) think that the US can do more damage to NATO as a part of it instead of leaving it.
NAFO.