Nato summit in Ankara: major reshuffle ahead?

The old Nato is long dead, comments the Süddeutsche Zeitung:

“And everyone knows it. The withdrawal of the United States has begun and is, at least in part, irreversible. … It is no longer a question of distributing the burden more evenly. Mutual assistance will have to be guaranteed to a large extent by the Europeans. The role of the US will increasingly be limited to that of a reinsurer, albeit an indispensable one, particularly in the nuclear sphere. Whether this model will function at all depends, apart from the US, essentially on one member state: Germany. This follows from a process of elimination. If we look at size, economic clout and geographical location, only Germany remains as the potential centre of the new Nato.”