Donald Trump promised to change everything or practically everything and in a way he is keeping his promise. Even NATO itself, which since the magnate has returned to the White House, has been forced to reflect on its future. Even with the unusual prospect of surviving without the USgiven the withdrawal warnings issued by Washington.
Among the most concerned is who was the Secretary General of NATO between 2009 and 2014, the Danish Anders Fogh Rasmussen. In a speech in Copenhagen, he even raised a International ‘plan b’ to confront China and also the US…especially after the threats against Greenland, a territory belonging to Denmark and therefore to NATO.
“The United States no longer has the will to lead and, from the point of view of the Greenlanders, the world’s policeman has gone crazy“, admitted Rasmussen from the Danish capital
In Rasmussen’s mind is the idea of a new international alliance, which he would call the D7 because it is formed by seven democracies. These would include states and supranational organizations, while include EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.
This global understanding would be both on an economic levelin a format similar to the current G7 that some of these countries make up, such as militarily in case of conflict with a third country. Likewise, they would act in a coordinated manner in the planning a strategy joint investment for developing countriesa movement that would seek to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
As detailed in the German newspaper The worldsaid D7 would represent a gross domestic product equivalent to 30% of world economic production. “That’s the economic power necessary to deter a hegemonic power“Rasmussen pointed out in his speech.
This macro-alliance would be independent of NATO, because as the former Secretary General explained “I still believe in NATO as a defense alliance, but needs a coalition of countries willing to collaborate, prepared to defend Europe“.
