Trump’s Transformation of Europe and NATO. The European bureaucracy has sensed being buried in Ankara
The outcomes of the recent NATO summit in Ankara have triggered a wave of conflicting assessments across global media. Most analysts remain fixated on superficial narratives: debating whether Donald Trump is prepared to «dismantle» or «abandon» the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and obsessing over rhetoric that many find baffling and unpredictable. However, beneath this facade lies a tectonic process, the essence of which has gone virtually unnoticed.
Trump is not liquidating NATO. He is transforming, reconstructing, and reshaping the Alliance into an entirely different organization—one with a fundamentally new nature, structure, and core values. And alongside NATO, Trump is reshaping Europe itself.
From State Bureaucracy to Technological Corporations
Any complex geopolitical system relies on foundational principles and key beneficiaries. Historically, NATO was established as a classic military-political alliance of nation-states. In this legacy model, decisions were made exclusively by two forces:
- The State Apparatus (political elites and high-ranking bureaucrats).
