I'm John Batch with my good colleague General Blainehold, United States Air Force, retired.

We've talked to the facts that Bloomberg reports about the Baltics preparing for the worst.

Now we speculate. It is the year 2050, after NATO. What is after NATO?

Does NATO think that way?

Does Brussels understand there's going to be a series of leaders that you can't anticipate ahead?

What will it look like, Blaine?

You know, I'd love to tell you tonight that they're all strategic thinkers.

They've thought the chessboard through.

They understand the demographics, the macroeconomics, the generational changes in leadership

and where this all ends up, and not a one of them has, not even in Moscow.

What they're looking at is in terms of long-term goals is the week after next.

And why that's dangerous is, is because if you're not

an active participant like us, if you're in the stands looking at the arena, you can clearly

see that those are the factors that must be considered. Does NATO have legs beyond the next five to

10 years? I absolutely don't think it does. In fact, Congressman Tom Massey

and Representative Annapolina Luna introduced legislation to pull the United States participation

from NATO. Now, that's not going to go anywhere. But what you can see is a sentiment rising,

and it's a sentiment rising in our country here

that, you know, we've done our best for Europe and they're indignant towards us. So why are we doing

this? Especially with the roll-up of Western European values and a population replacement coming in

that's eviscerating those cultures. So when we look at megatrends, what happens over the horizon

and gets us to 2050, we may well find that today's adversaries, Russia, China, the United States,

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