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Idea: A new Atlantic Order ?
A new Atlantic Order ?
It is widely understood that both the EU and NATO have run into trouble. In both cases, there is a problem of Imperial Overstretch and the attempt to unify cultures that don’t belong together. There is also the problem of antagonizing Russia while getting nothing in return and engage in wars that benefit nobody.
I thus propose an entirely new Atlantic Order that should revolve around the continuation of NATO while focusing on its core countries and core principles. I believe NATO should return within its 1989 territory with the exception of countries outside of Europe and with the unification of Germany under NATO and with the exception of both Greece and Turkey which will be relieved of their duties and membership.
This Atlantic Order should compose of three elements: Security, Trade and Diplomacy.
Security.
For this task, NATO should should continue to fulfill its role as the traditional Atlantic Alliance, while beefing up its own security by setting up a Joint Assets and Research Program (JARP) where the American model of competition for research and armaments purchases is accessible to all NATO countries. In other words: combinations of Western European, American, Canadian and other Allied firms will be free to compete for NATO-wide purchases which will harmonize our defense systems and do away with the myriads of structures and systems we employ today for the most important assets: fighter jets, ammunition, electronics, tanks, helicopters and other aircraft. Members should be requested to add the 2% rule to their constitutions. The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany should be up for renegotiation and Germany should be allowed to expand its armed forces back to its pre-1989 size or (if they choose so) beyond that number. Both Canada, the Netherlands and Germany should be welcomed to join the nuclear club, Australia should also be welcomed to join the same.
It will be NATO’s role to guarantee both the territorial, social and political integrity against foreign intrusions but also the guarantee and guarantee the neutrality of Central and Eastern Europe, the latter of which will be role shared with Russia. That means that the countries of Central Europe can neither join NATO (or any of its other related organizations) or any Russian organizations.
Expansion: Even-though there will be no Eastward expansion, NATO’s reach could still become global as we could invite Australia and New Zealand to join our ranks. As the world’s oceans cover some 70% of the planet and our security in Europe is covered by a series of buffer states, NATO will need to seek to protect the world’s vital sealanes by investing heavily in its expeditionary and maritime qualities.
Western Europe’s resource situation continues to be source of problems and this is why it’s important to look away from Russia by not just continuing to explore their own territory and opt for alternative technologies but to also import from allied countries such as Canada and the United States.
Trade
That the EU will collapse is no longer a question of if, but of when and, perhaps, this is only just as well as the EU may well have damaged Europe beyond repair but we can, at least, attempt to make repairs and thus it's time for the EU to go. The demise of the EU will, once more, allow for the individual nations to settle their own affairs in regards to their own needs and traditions but it would be important for our own economic health (as well as our strategic security) to set up a trade block that keeps other players (such as India or China) at bay. I thus propose that the EFTA is to be expanded across the Atlantic into the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Association (TAFTA) which will cover the same membership as NATO. Some steps may need to be taken in order to protect heritage products and to protect the Western-European wish to keep out genetically modified but those can be written into the treaty and the countries can be free to withdraw such points at any moment. Such a free market approach may also force members like France, Italy, Spain and Portugal to become more effective in their approach towards both industry and agriculture. Various disputes that may arise can be solved by individual nations courts or a court of arbitration.
Diplomacy.
It may have become apparent to some that the UN has a deeply anti-white bias and that it may well be a good idea for us to leave the UN and to remove their institutions from our soil in order to prevent them from having any power over us. I therefore propose the re-creation of the League of Nations for the same members as above, as operating under a modified UN Charter that does away with the Security Council. The necessity of each UN institution should be reviewed and, if necessary, copied into a League of Nations institution. Its seats should be on both sides of the Atlantic and with their previous experience, it might be a good idea to move the seats of various services to both New York, Paris and The Hague. Indeed: I think we should actually seek to bar the UN from using the name UN (forcing them to use a different name) as the UN was born out of WWII Allies who also used the same name and this is merely an expansion of that alliance. So the West will become the new UN.
As for former EU institutions:
- The EMA (the European version of the U.S Food and Drugs Administration ), European Food Safety Authority and ECDC should be preserved and continue to do the same work and preferably even be merged into one institution so overhead costs can be cut (EHRA European Health and Research Administration). Research should take place at a secure location (preferably somewhere in a cave in the Alps - much like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (only even more secure) .
- The roles of the European Union Satellite Centre and the European Union Institute for Security Studies could easily be subsumed by NATO.
- The role of the Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union might as well be taken over by any translation boards in NATO and the rest can be diverted to a new League of Nations and TAFTA
- The European Space Agency, the European GNSS Agency and the currently proposed EU Agency for the Space Programme, can easily remain existing Western European programs which lean heavily on their NASA counterparts. The same applies to CERN and their U.S counterpart.
- Europol, the European Police College and Eurojust can easily be reconfigured into a wider Trans-Atlantic role where security services from both sides of the Atlantic can exchange information, coordinate the fight on organized crime and learn from each other's expertise.
- The European Maritime Safety Agency should continue to be a shared agency of the Western European members of the Atlantic alliance which should allow them to share both data as well as expertise. The EMSA too, should continue to work in close conjunction with their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic.
Anyone else got some ideas ?
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Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker
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