US-Europe ties now face strain from growing strategic differences, political mistrust, and a shifting geopolitics that is eroding longstanding foundations

World politics is undergoing a change. The alliances that were once considered sacrosanct and unshakable are showing signs of schism, and an unease has set in. The two recent wars — one in Ukraine and the other in West Asia, where the US unilaterally intervened — have shaken NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that was formed after World War II in the heydays of the Cold War but continued even after the USSR disintegrated.  NATO was formed on April 4, 1949, by 12 countries from Europe and North America to prevent Soviet expansion and provide a military defence alliance, establishing the principle that an attack on one member is an attack on all.  The US was the big brother........

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