[Snuffington]

If the United States concludes that this alliance is useless to it, it will replace it with bilateral arrangements with important powers such as Russia and China, with which countries America's relations are more cordial than they have been for many decades.

In that case, the fleeting gratitude of the Iraqis, Iranians and like-minded states will be a very poor substitute to Europe for the formal friendship of the United States.

Good analysis. But I'm afraid, with the possible exception of Great Britain, the writing is on the wall for this already. And Great Britain is soon going to be forced into a hard choice between the EU and alliance with the U.S. I don't see that this forcing will come at the prompting of the U.S., but rather from the EU side.

[Dark Wing]

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