So NATO might expand again. Eventually NATO will face the reality behind Frederick the Great’s famous saying: “He who defends everything defends nothing.”
...In an interview with De Standaard newspaper, Van Rompuy speaks about his “dreams” that all the Balkan states will join the EU. He calls it an “inspiring thought” that in the long term “the whole of European territory outside Russia” will be tied in some way to the EU. He admits he does not know if there is public support for such a move, “But we do it anyway.”