Is NATO actually superfluous now?
In his speech on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden made it clear: In the future, the United States wants to concentrate primarily on the security of its own country before dealing with trouble spots in other countries.
No more world police, dear Homeland Security.
This means that the United States will also fail as the leading nation of the Transatlantic Alliance - right?
“According to the US, China is the top foreign policy priority; That is why the Americans are calling on Europeans to become more involved in their own neighborhood, "says Sophia Besch from the" Center for European Reform "in this podcast episode," at the same time America knows that Europe is not yet in a position to do this is to defend the EU's eastern border - for example against a possible invasion from Russia «. In the future, according to Besch, there could be a burden-sharing between the EU and the USA: The Europeans take care of European problems on the southern and eastern borders of the EU as far as the Middle East; the Americans, for example, are concerned with the increasing Chinese presence on important trade routes such as the Strait of Malacca in the Indo-Pacific.
So what could Western alliances like NATO look like, how could they act in the future?
How important and how likely is a common European army?
And what happens if the next local conflict threatens to have supra-regional effects?
Sophia Besch answers these questions in an interview with host Olaf Heuser.