NATO’s Secret Plans to Defend Europe Without the US

What happens when the superpower that guaranteed your safety tells you that its protection is conditional?  For eighty years, Europe treated its survival as America's problem, but the security blanket has finally been yanked away. Times Defence Editor Larisa Brown details the radical, hushed scramble to bypass US vetoes and build an autonomous, threshold-nuclear shield against Moscow. Yet while continental allies prepare for a transactional Washington, Britain remains dangerously immobilised by its old loyalties, outsourcing the very thinking required to survive. In a world of conditional promises, hoping for rescue is no longer a strategy. Produced by Stephanie Bosset #nato #europeandefence #nuclearhedging #geopolitics #uksecurity Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to the Times Originals YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesoriginals Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thetimes?lang=en Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/