The cracks in the NATO alliance appear to be getting larger after statements by Donald Trump this past week:

Nato is in crisis. Can history predict what happens next?
March 22, 2026
“If there’s no response – or if it’s a negative response – I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato.”
So said US President Donald Trump in March 2026, after asking European allies for their help in securing the Strait of Hormuz. This primary export route for most of the world’s largest oil and gas fields had lately been declared closed by Iran as a response to US-Israeli military operations.
However, the response to the president’s call to aid to his European allies has, so far, been distinctly muted. No doubt this is in part because much of Europe is still reeling from the events at the start of the year.
Back in January, the American-led alliance was thrown into disarray by the president’s desire to assert control over Greenland – a semi-autonomous territory of Nato member Denmark. At the height of the crisis, with Trump adamant that the US “needed” Greenland “very badly”, the Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen went so far as to say that “if the United States chooses to attack another Nato country militarily, then everything stops. That includes Nato, and thus the security that has been provided since the end of the Second World War.”
Now, amid renewed transatlantic tensions stemming from the US–Israeli war with Iran, those key questions provoked by the recent Greenland debacle have resurfaced again: is Nato in crisis, and can it endure? https://www.historyextra.com/period/cold-war/nato-in-crisis-what-happens-next-lessons-from-history/
America’s war with Iran could destroy NATO from within
Updated 22 March 2026
What is unfolding around Iran is not only another Middle Eastern war. It is also a profound test of the political, strategic, and moral cohesion of the Atlantic world.
The widening confrontation driven by the military actions of the US and Israel against Iran is exposing something far larger than a regional crisis. It is revealing the accelerated decomposition of Western unity at the very moment when the old architecture of unchallenged American hegemony is visibly fading. In that sense, the strikes on Iran are not simply an act of escalation in one theater. They are a historical stress test for NATO itself, for the credibility of Washington’s leadership, and for the entire Western claim to strategic coherence in an age of global turbulence.
For decades, the Atlantic alliance rested on a simple assumption. The US would lead, Europe would follow, and even when there were frictions, the structure would hold because all parties believed that the preservation of American primacy was identical with the preservation of their own security. That formula is breaking down in real time. The war around Iran has made this impossible to ignore. Western European leaders are no longer merely expressing discreet discomfort or ritual concern. They are publicly and demonstratively refusing to be drawn into an American military adventure whose goals they do not understand, whose consequences they do not control, and whose costs they know they will be forced to absorb. Germany, France, the UK, and Spain have all rejected direct involvement in the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, while leading European officials have stated in essence that this is not their war, that Europe had not been properly consulted, and that Washington had not offered any convincing plan for success.
That matters because the dispute is not about tactics alone. It goes to the heart of alliance politics. If Washington can ignite a conflict with enormous global implications and then demand support from its allies after the fact, while offering neither consultation nor a credible endgame, then NATO ceases to function as an alliance of coordinated strategy and begins to resemble a system of imperial requisition. The Europeans understand this. Their refusal is a message, that the US increasingly treats its allies not as sovereign partners but as instruments to be mobilized after decisions have already been made in Washington and West Jerusalem. It says that when the strategic center becomes erratic, unilateral, and ready to externalize risk, the periphery begins to detach.
Donald Trump’s own rhetoric has thrown this reality into even sharper relief. When NATO members refused to support the American effort around Iran and to commit naval forces to the Strait of Hormuz, Trump did not respond as the steward of an alliance. He responded as a resentful patron whose clients had failed to obey. Media reports quoted him calling NATO’s refusal a very foolish mistake and making it clear that the US would remember that everyone agreed in words but did not want to help in deeds. In the same political atmosphere, he also signaled that because of American military power, the US no longer needed or desired NATO assistance and, in essence, never truly had. Washington is increasingly willing to threaten, humiliate, or discard its own allies whenever they cease to be tactically useful.
This is why the current split is so serious. It is not only Europe resisting a war. It is Europe being forced to confront the possibility that the US would rather risk the cohesion of NATO than restrain its own escalation. In other words, Washington appears increasingly ready to sacrifice not only the comfort and stability of its allies, but potentially the political substance of the alliance itself, if preserving American freedom of action requires it. https://www.rt.com/news/635767-iran-war-destroy-nato/

Related to Greenland, notice the following:

‘If you cannot keep your Greenland, just ask us’: Iran offers help amid war with US
March 22, 2026
The Iran war has entered its fourth week with US and Israel continuing their air strikes on the country and its top leadership. Now, with Trump urging NATO and EU allies to help the United States secure Strait of Hormuz the key oil route, Iran has mocked Washington for “begging” the European Union for help. In fact it has offered to protect Greenland from Trump.
“Trump first threatened the European Union, then begged them. Today he said if you don’t come, we will come and take Greenland. I want to tell the European Union, if you cannot keep your Greenland, just ask us, we will come to protect it,” said the Iranian spokesperson.
Relations between the United States and Denmark reached a historical low in early 2026, due to President Trump’s aggressive and public claims regarding the annexation of Greenland. https://www.wionews.com/world/-if-you-cannot-keep-your-greenland-just-ask-us-iran-offers-help-amid-war-with-us-1774161369281
Denmark planned to blow up Greenland runways if Trump moved to seize island
March 20, 2026
Denmark dispatched soldiers and explosives to Greenland in January as part of a contingency plan to obliterate key runways if the United States attempted an invasion, the country’s public broadcaster has reported.
The strategy, which focused on landing strips in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq, was designed to prevent U.S. military aircraft from landing troops and equipment. Danish blood banks even flew in supplies to treat potential casualties. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/03/20/denmark-planned-to-blow-up-greenland-runways-if-trump-moved-to-seize-island/

The Danes have been very upset with the USA because of Trump Administration comments about Greenland–so much so that “Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that a US takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance” (see Trump Administration’s actions & statements on Venezuela and Greenland are pushing Europe and South America).

Over a year ago, I had the following in my book free eBook Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies?:

Greenland
There is also something referred to as the “law of unintended consequences.” There are consequences for the USA, Europe, and elsewhere that have and will occur because of Donald Trump’s statements and actions. …
The Bible teaches about a great power who will be destroyed by its friends, who become enemies (Lamentations 1:1-2)—some statements by Donald Trump are pushing “friends” (NATO allies) into being enemies. …
Historically, many powerful civilizations were destroyed through economic, military, health and moral decline. Will alliances like NATO remain helpful through these difficulties? At least 22 predictions/warnings I made about the first Donald Trump Administration were totally or at least partially fulfilled during his first term in office. … (p. 6)
The Bible teaches about a great power who will be destroyed by its friends, who become enemies (Lamentations 1:1-2)—some statements by Donald Trump are pushing “friends” (NATO allies) into being enemies. … (pp. 48-49)
31 And forces shall be mustered by him …
The King of the North will deceitfully proclaim “peace and safety” while plotting for the sudden destruction of those opposing him (1 Thessalonians 5:2–3). He will destroy the mighty American-British alliance.
Because of not accepting and understanding biblical prophecies, many political and other leaders will be hoping for and believing in a false peace. The sudden destruction to come is likely to include a nuclear or other high tech attack, and could possibly happen in conjunction with a NATO training or other exercise that would catch the USA and its Anglo-Saxon-Celtic allies off guard. Other nations are likely to also be involved.
The USA will be attacked by “friends” consistent with the following:
1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The princess among the provinces Has become a slave!
2 She weeps bitterly in the night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies. cf. Lamentations 1:1-2).
Notice the one who was “great among the nations” will be conquered by friends, who will become enemies.
The USA was prophesied to be “great” in Genesis 48:19 and is considered by international sources to be great among the nations of the world today.

The USA is repeatedly pushing it NATO allies in Europe away.

Statements and threats are getting the Europeans to conclude that they can no longer rely on the USA. A reader from Italy sent me a link in Italian today (https://www.maurizioblondet.it/un-genocida-minaccia-roma-di-atomica/) that I machine-translated into English. Here are excerpts of that translation:

22 March 2026
The chaos the US is sowing, it seems, always has a common denominator. The crisis with Ukraine, ultimately, from the US’s point of view, was nothing more than the most damaging thing possible for Europe and its economy. And now that the EU has managed to rebalance energy sources by building regasification plants, a disaster has erupted, preventing LNG from flowing from the Gulf countries.
What, exactly, needs to happen before we understand that the chaos sown by the US is primarily intended to undermine Europe and its economy? Every time the European Union attempts to build an independent corridor—energy or trade—something else happens: just days before the treaty with Mercosur is finally signed, after twenty-six years of negotiations, the attack on Venezuela begins, with all its attendant political instability and risks to supplies of raw materials and agri-food from South America.
Now that the EU has established a relatively stable flow of gas and energy investments to and from the Middle East, as part of the new India-Middle East-Europe corridors, disaster is unfolding right there, with yet another crisis threatening shipping routes, insurance, risk premiums, and industrial plans based on predictable energy prices. …
The sequence is always the same: every space in which Europe attempts to build strategic autonomy—be it in gas, Latin American raw materials, or Asian markets—is immediately surrounded by a higher level of geopolitical entropy, in which Washington carves out the role of indispensable policeman and the EU that of damaged but obedient client. Through a series of “coincidences,” the practical result is that Europeans pay the price in inflation, slowing exports, energy volatility, and insurance costs, while the US maintains control over the keys to the chaos and, by extension, our economic choices.
If American geostrategic policy seems chaotic to you, it’s only because you’re looking at it the wrong way …
The only way out for Europe is to stop trying to become a poor copy of the United States. We’re fed up with intellectuals and think tanks Pavlovianly touting a “United States of Europe” as a panacea, just as the United States of America is demonstrating live worldwide what an empire becomes when it enters a pathological phase: toxic polarization, out-of-control digital oligopolies, militarism as industrial policy, reserve currency used as a cudgel. …
The next step is to acknowledge that the US is no longer a “friend,” nor even just a vocal competitor. From a European perspective, the United States has become an enemy in the technical sense of the term: a power pursuing economic, energy, and military policies that are structurally hostile to the survival of European industry and autonomy, from the de facto sabotage of our energy corridors to the constant pressure to buy their weapons, technological standards, and cultural narrative.
This has been clear in many Berlin palaces for years, where the US is bluntly described as a “military ally but an economic and financial enemy.” The problem is that in Brussels and the Latin capitals, they continue to pretend that these are merely misunderstandings between partners.
It’s time to call a spade a spade: Washington is pursuing a coherent plan to erode Europe’s capacity to act as an autonomous pole, and the forced “Americanization” of our cultural and media elites is an integral part of this process, because a continent that thinks in American terms is already half-colonized without the need for Marines.

Wow!

Yes, there are Europeans who believe that the USA is intentionally pursuing policies to push Europe down.

More and more in Europe are concluding that they must take their own military steps.

This will not end well for the USA per Daniel 11:39, and is consistent with Lamentations 1:1-2.

While Europe publicly is still supportive of NATO, in the end Europe will betray the NATO members of the USA, Canada, and UK.

In December 2025, we produced the following related video:

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USA to leave NATO?
There are bills being promoted by US politicians in both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives to have the USA leave NATO alliance by 2027. There is also the new National Security Strategy report from the Trump Administration which looks to change NATO. Europe is offended, but is preparing for this to take place. How so? By taking economic (expanding trade relations) and military (by increased spending and added troops) steps And it is the military preparations by Europe that should most concern the United States. Dr. Thiel points out how the fragmented state of the European Union will lead to the reorganization of Europe (Revelation 17:12-13) which will ultimately bring about the rise of the prophesied King of the North (Daniel 11:39-43). Could a blitzkrieg type of an attack under the guise of a NATO-type exercise lead to the conquering of the USA? Scriptures quoted by Dr. Thiel point out that when this reorganization of Europe takes place the destruction and enslavement of the United States of America, the nation with the strongest fortresses, is not far behind. Daniel 8:23 tells us this King of the North understands “sinister schemes”. Could one of those sinister schemes be the destruction of the United States? Are there other scriptures that confirm this destruction? Who is Assyria? Who is Samaria? Who is Ephraim? The answer is surprising but makes clear many scriptures that were sealed until the time of the end. The answer to the identity of Assyria, Samaria and Ephraim as referred to by the prophets Isaiah and Hosea is provided by Dr. Thiel in this video. Watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of Biblical prophecy on the future of the United States of America and its British descended allies. Listen as Dr. Thiel explains the scriptures that prophesy the end of the United States by its friends, such as Lamentations 1:1-2. The time is getting closer.

Here is a link to our video: USA to leave NATO?

The US has been pushing NATO allies away.

This will not only not end end well for the USA (Daniel 11:39; Isaiah 10:5-11), it will end up badly for even many Muslim countries (cf. Daniel 11:40-43), and ultimately, even Europe itself (cf. Daniel 11:45; Revelation 17:14).

Some items of possibly related interest may include:

Donald Trump in Prophecy Prophecy, Donald Trump? Are there prophecies that Donald Trump may fulfill? Are there any prophecies that he has already helped fulfill? Is a Donald Trump presidency proving to be apocalyptic? Three related videos are available: Donald: ‘Trump of God’ or Apocalyptic? and Donald Trump’s Prophetic Presidency and Donald Trump and Unintended Consequences.
Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies? Is Donald Trump going to save the USA or are there going to be many disastrous unintended consequences of his statements and policies? What will happen? This is a free eBook.
Spiritual Samaritans: Old and New Who were the Samaritans? Do the represent true Christianity or something else? Here is a link to a related sermon: USA in Prophecy: Samaria.
USA in Prophecy: The Strongest Fortresses Can you point to scriptures, like Daniel 11:39, that point to the USA in the 21st century? This article does. Two related sermon are available: Identifying the USA and its Destruction in Prophecy and Do these 7 prophesies point to the end of the USA?
Who is the King of the West? Why is there no Final End-Time King of the West in Bible Prophecy? Is the United States the King of the West? Here is a version in the Spanish language: ¿Quién es el Rey del Occidente? ¿Por qué no hay un Rey del Occidente en la profecía del tiempo del fin? A related sermon is also available: The Bible, the USA, and the King of the West.
Who is the King of the North? Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies for the Great Monarch point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States? In the Spanish language check out ¿Quién es el Rey del Norte? Here are links to three related videos: The King of the North is Alive: What to Look Out For, The Future King of the North, and Rise of the Prophesied King of the North.
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is are links to related videos: European history and the Bible, Europe In Prophecy, The End of European Babylon, and Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European? Here is a link to a related sermon in the Spanish language: El Fin de la Babilonia Europea.
Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America? Where did those people come from? Can you totally rely on DNA? Do you really know what will happen to Europe and the English-speaking peoples? What about the peoples of Africa, Asia, South America, and the islands? This free online book provides scriptural, scientific, historical references, and commentary to address those matters. Here are links to related sermons: Lost tribes, the Bible, and DNA; Lost tribes, prophecies, and identifications; 11 Tribes, 144,000, and Multitudes; Israel, Jeremiah, Tea Tephi, and British Royalty; Gentile European Beast; Royal Succession, Samaria, and Prophecies; Asia, Islands, Latin America, Africa, and Armageddon; When Will the End of the Age Come?; Rise of the Prophesied King of the North; Christian Persecution from the Beast; WWIII and the Coming New World Order; and Woes, WWIV, and the Good News of the Kingdom of God.

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