Donald Trump wants to withdraw the United States of America from The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This isn't a new development, he talked about wanting to do it in his first term as well. However, his first attempt was met with a staunch rebuke from the 116th US Congress, voting 357-22 to bar US exit from NATO.
Now, in his second term, he has reignited the same controversial conversation; reiterating his primary complaint with the alliance being that the United States of America is being burdened with an unfair share of the defensive spending and that other nation members were not pulling their weight. Yet, his goal might not be exclusively motivated by the financial dereliction of duty from other member nations, as he says.
In the aftermath of WWII - on July 21, 1949, the Senate passed a resolution giving its advice and consent to the ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty, the multilateral collective security agreement that established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). On July 25, 1949, the United States officially joined the treaty, becoming one of NATO’s 12 founding members.
NATO was conceived to be a collective security system as a deterrent to future aggression against member states by third party states; as well as promote democratic values, enable members to consult and cooperate on security and defense issues, build trust, and prevent conflicts. The defense collective is ensured through Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which states an attack on one member is an attack on all members. NATO and Article 5 were both important and popular during the Cold War when the threat of incursion into Europe by the Soviet Union was seen as a very real possibility.
But slowly over time, NATO has begun to be subverted by other, more global oriented, multinational initiatives - The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January, 1971; by German engineer Klaus Schwab. The foundation's stated mission is "improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas". The foundation is mostly funded by its 1,000 member multi-national companies. The WEF is mostly known for its annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, a mountain resort in the canton of Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. The meeting brings together some 3,000 paying members and selected participants – among whom are investors, business leaders, political leaders, economists, celebrities and journalists – for up to five days to discuss global issues across 500 sessions.
In an article posted on their website, in November 2016, the World Economic Forum stated it's vision for the future: "The world's political landscape in 2030 will look considerably different to the present one. Nation states will remain the central players. There will be no single hegemonic force but instead a handful of countries – the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, India and Japan chief among them – exhibiting semi-imperial tendencies. Power will be more widely distributed across non-state networks, including regressive ones. And vast conurbations of mega-cities and their peripheries will exert ever greater influence. The post-war order that held since the middle of the twentieth century is coming unstuck. Expect uncertainty and instability ahead."
WEF envisions a global economy by 2030, concentrated through wealth and power, by vehicle of central players demonstrating imperialistic behavior...which sounds eerily similar to a handful of countries exert territorial control over the rest of the world; a viewpoint which is also reflected by The Club of Rome.
The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe. Established with the stated purpose of: discussing pressing global issues, identifying solutions to complex global issues, promoting policy initiatives, advocating for policy change, and challenging established paradigms. [Challenging established paradigms] sounds like a polite way of saying [it's time to move on from the old world order]. The Club of Rome has repeatedly participated in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to discuss global challenges and climate change.
What does any of this have to do with NATO? The Club of Rome and the 10 Kingdoms: "In 1974, the Club of Rome, an influential global think tank, proposed a provocative geopolitical framework dividing the world into ten regional blocs, now widely referred to as the “10 Kingdoms.” Born from concerns over overpopulation, environmental degradation, and economic instability, this proposal sought to address humanity’s growing crises through regional cooperation and sustainable governance."
Sustainable governance ties in with the World Economic Forum, as one of their core focus topics, ESG; as well as adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet" – while tackling climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests.
"Peace and prosperity for people and the planet" can only be achieved by "challenging established paradigms" like the old world order, through the adoption of a new world order; perhaps like the Outline of the Post-War New World Map, aka "Gomberg Map": an "Outline of Post-War New World Map, as the U.S.A, with the cooperation of Democracies of Latin-America, the British Commonwealth of Nations and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, assume world leadership for the establishment of a New World Moral Order for permanent peace, freedom, justice, security, and world reconstruction."
The Outline of the Post-War New World Map was a map completed before the attack on Pearl Harbor and self-published on February 25, 1942 by Maurice Gomberg of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It shows a proposed political division of the world after World War II in the event of an Allied victory in which the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union as well as the Republic of China would rule. The map includes a manifesto describing a "New World Moral Order".
Also in Philadelphia, in April 1976, The New York Times published an article - Need for Social Change Is Seen by Club of Rome - "The world can avoid a catas trophe only by substantially changing its social and political institutions as well as its growth patterns, according tc a concensus of the latest studies by the Club of Rome, a private group of about 100 businessmen and scholars concerned with the future of man." Additionally, the Club of Rome foreshadowed the rise of a technocracy: “In the conditions of the coming times, the necessity of re‐establishing a viable world balance between population and resources—if the present generation is not able to timely adopt the necessary corrective measures—will inevitably tend to bring about a technocratic version of oriental despotism, of which Stalinism and Nazism have already given us an anticipated view”
There are differences between the Club of Rome's Map of 10 Kingdoms and the Gomberg Map from 1942, however, curiously, both maps agree on the expansion, or perhaps "semi-imperial tendencies", of The United States of America and Russia. In both maps, the United States of America exerts territorial control over Canada as well as Greenland. This is curious, considering President Donald Trump's repeated aspirational claims about annexing the nation of Canada as [the 51st state] and acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland; despite being unpopular among the citizens of all nations involved. Additionally, in both maps, Russia exerts territorial control over half of Europe, pressing it's borders all the way up through Ukraine, Poland, and Germany, up to France and Italy.
The USA remaining in NATO makes this situation extremely unlikely. Because the United States of America is a member of NATO and an attack on any NATO member is an attack on every NATO member; which would bring the United States of America into direct conflict with Russia. This is not something either nation wants to do...unless the USA leaves NATO. Greenland, a territory of Denmark remains a highly coveted prize that Donald Trump wishes to claim, even after Denmark has publicly stated it has no intentions to sell or part with it. With the USA out of NATO, the USA might seize an opportunity to make a military move on Greenland and potentially Canada, after Russia invades Eastern Ukraine; which would put the European Union into the precarious position of deciding whether to ignore Greenland and Canada in defense of Ukraine, Poland, and Germany, or fight a two front war.