NATO Dissolved?

There was talk of doing it after the fall of the USSR, it was created as a USSR defence afterall. e.
 

nbcman

Donor
What if Pat Buchanan was POTUS instead of George Bush? Buchanan would have gladly tried to pull the US out of 'foreign entanglements' such as NATO. Without the US, the other NATO countries either dissolved the alliance or created a new European based alliance as a predecessor to the EU.
 

DusanUros

Banned
I know. I'm trying to see if there's any plausible way it could dissolve.

Not really.....unless the country members go insane, no one would just let such a strong alliance die out. With USSR against them, they grew their power pretty quick, now without this enemy, no one can stand against such an alliance, so practically no one would let it dissolve.
 
Hm... some vague ideas here: I'm thinking more regional military co-operation partially supplementing NATO's role- primarily a 'European Defence Community' or a similar organization, I guess.
As long as the USSR and the Warsaw Pact was around, trans-Atlantic co-operation would still be seen as necessary by both sides, I'd think, just less so than OTL (since Europe would take a larger piece of the burden- which might lead to a less integrated NATO, presumably), but when the USSR falls and the Warsaw Pact disintegrates, the USA might be more inclined to think that they don't need to help with Europe's defence anymore, and Europe would be more inclined to think that the EDC will be perfectly able to handle any issues that come up on their own now, without American 'meddling', and if NATO is less integrated, then dissolving would be easier in practical terms than in OTL.
 

DusanUros

Banned
You need a POD a lot earlier for that. At the end and after WW2 America invested alot in Europe, so they still need to poke their nose in European affairs.
 

Hashasheen

Banned
Hm... some vague ideas here: I'm thinking more regional military co-operation partially supplementing NATO's role- primarily a 'European Defence Community' or a similar organization, I guess.
As long as the USSR and the Warsaw Pact was around, trans-Atlantic co-operation would still be seen as necessary by both sides, I'd think, just less so than OTL (since Europe would take a larger piece of the burden- which might lead to a less integrated NATO, presumably), but when the USSR falls and the Warsaw Pact disintegrates, the USA might be more inclined to think that they don't need to help with Europe's defence anymore, and Europe would be more inclined to think that the EDC will be perfectly able to handle any issues that come up on their own now, without American 'meddling', and if NATO is less integrated, then dissolving would be easier in practical terms than in OTL.

Hmm. That's interesting.
 
You need a POD a lot earlier for that. At the end and after WW2 America invested alot in Europe, so they still need to poke their nose in European affairs.
And they still would, just not quite as much as in OTL- NATO would still exist, etc. Europe thinking the USA can stop meddling occurs after the USSR falls, remember? To put it another way, dissolving NATO was suggested in OTL, and here there would be less commitments for NATO in Europe and an already existing organization covering much of the remaining need for NATO- in Europe, at least. Couple it with a more isolationist USA, perhaps, and we would have a USA that would be more keen on withdrawing and a Europe that would be more willing to accept it...
The thing is, if one pushes too much too early, we'd get a situation where NATO doesn't exist in the first place as opposed to one where NATO is dissolved after the reason why it was created is gone.
 
I can't see NATO falling, most I could see is it simply becoming a cooperation where nations simply discuss defense affairs and nothing further. NATO ITTL would be like a Diet NATO.
 
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