Going by the recent events involving the United States Of America and top European Union countries, it is very glaring that all is not well with their relationship. NATO in particular seems to be heading for rough times ahead. Things are falling apart in that relationship as the early signs suggest.

First was the meeting between President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel in Germany just a few weeks back. It was virtually a failed trip with the famous “handshake fail” between the two.

Now, just a few days ago, at a NATO meeting, President Trump kept true to his electorate back home by telling the Europeans to their faces that their actions as far as contributing their fair share to the defence budget of the Alliance is “not fair to the American Tax Payers”.

What a blunt way to put it to the EU members. But then can anyone really blame President Trump for telling the EU Nations the truth in such a blunt manner? Is it fair for the US to carry the responsibilities of everyone in the Alliance?

Well one of the outcome of this NATO saga is the fact that Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has come out to say that the European Union can no longer “completely rely on US and Britain anymore”.

Europe can no longer completely rely on its longstanding British and US allies, Angela Merkel warned – saying the EU must now be prepared to “take its fate into its own hands”. She is of the opinion that the postwar western alliance had been badly affected by the UK’s Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election as US president.

She went on to say “The times in which we could completely depend on others are, to a certain extent, over,” she told an election rally in Munich on Sunday. “I’ve experienced that in the last few days. We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands.”

When one takes into consideration the fact that Germany is the biggest economy in the European Union, then it surely means some sort of serious challenges await the NATO Alliance in the very near future.

As for the bilateral relations between Germany and the United States, your guess is as good as mine. China is already the largest trade partner of the Bundes Republic Of Deuthschland (Germany) as at today, not the United States Of America.

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