When NATO was first set up, it was assumed that the US might be needed to help defend Western Europe from the Warsaw Pact. The original stated job of NATO was to be a defensive alliance to discourage war in Europe. Any member that is attacked can call on all the other members for help.

The only time this ever happened was September 11, 2001. The US asked NATO for help, and all the other nations responded.

NATO's mission statement as of 1999, did not envision any activity outside Europe and the North Atlantic. Today there is even division within Europe about how to handle the problems faced by these nations.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO Secretary General has said,

"We will need a strategic concept that takes account of today's realities and tomorrow's challenges… The world has changed, the threats have changed, so has NATO "

NATO's 28 member states hope that the future approach will help persuade an increasingly skeptical public in many European countries that the 60-year-old alliance remains relevant, decades after the end of the Cold War.

The task is harder at a time of economic crisis and shrinking defense budgets, analysts say.

Fogh Rasmussen’s top priorities are expanding NATO's partnership with moderate nations in North Africa and the Middle East.

December 16, 2026

Senator Roswell Benedict address the North Atlantic Council:

“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is not dead. Nothing likes to die, big international organizations included. Like anything living, it wants to be fed and continues to grow and extend itself. 

“NATO was originally supposed to focus only on the common defense of its member states, and later threats like piracy, terrorism and cyberattack. Today it gives itself free reign over the entire world. The excuses for NATO military actions appear limitless, along with the geographic arena in which it might take action.

When I was a little boy it made me sad to learn that NATO troops had amassed in Arizona to suppress the retaliation of American citizens to an expected economic collapse engineered by the globalists. I remember a bumper sticker from that period: Send our troops home. We need them to protect us from the government.

Now that the EU is gone. and the UN is being reconstituted as an advisory body based upon Libertarian Nationalist principles, I and many like me in the US, feel that NATO should sever its now irrelevant allegiances to the globalists and work with the newly emerging European nations to promote worldwide nationalism with the preservation of indigenous peoples and cultures everywhere. The new NATO agenda I suggest would be to review and get information to member nations about the superior options of worldwide nationalism and peace.”

Benedict gets normal audience applause, followed by questions and answers.

January 6, 2027

NATO is reconstituted to be completely in accord with Libertarian Nationalist policies and to continue as an advisory clearing house for the natters it used to act upon directly at the behest of the globalists.