NATO could effectively die this June

David Rothkopf : U.S. has been pining for a de-Americanization of European military security in at least three decades .

Trump administration's recent statements and actions have included blaming NATO expansion for Russia 's invasion of Ukraine , he says.

European policymakers have long acted as if American money, weaponry, and public sentiment would never run out, he writes.

But the details of this aspirational burden-shifting are filled with more land mines than Ukraine 's farmland.

French President Macron has been pushing for a Gallic-led European successor bloc to NATO 's critical function as a security guarantor.

Until very recently, Germany and England have balked, due to a mixture of Franco -wariness and a desire to nurture the special relationships with Washington .

The question is whether—or in what form the US will contribute, says Rasmussen .