Death of NATO Predicted

Victor Davis Hanson writes for Defining Ideas, a journal of the Hoover Institution, about the coming end of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He quotes the first NATO Secretary General, cracking wise on the organization's purpose:

To keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.

Hanson's prediction: NATO dies not with a bang but with a whimper. He makes a particular point of how the new Turkey under Erdogan is a bad fit with the rest of NATO.

It may be time for an entirely new alliance of nations willing to pull their own weight militarily and opposed to both militant Islam and resurgent Russia. Those unwilling or unable do so should be left to their own devices, out from under our nuclear umbrella.