Art of the Deal: How do you generate MAXIMUM LEVERAGE with a negotiating party that NEEDS A DEAL? Threaten to "walk away".
If NATO is disbanded, the EU plans to re-assembly the remnants into the EU Security Organization, but it will likely be a smaller, discontinuous block with most of Eastern Europe and UK (and possibly Italy) with-holding their participation, especially Poland, Hungary, Czech, and Serbia (if those four are indeed all in NATO now).
Art of the Deal: How do you generate MAXIMUM LEVERAGE with a negotiating party that NEEDS A DEAL? Threaten to "walk away".
If NATO is disbanded, the EU plans to re-assembly the remnants into the EU Security Organization, but it will likely be a smaller, discontinuous block with most of Eastern Europe and UK (and possibly Italy) with-holding their participation, especially Poland, Hungary, Czech, and Serbia (if those four are indeed all in NATO now).