A rapid series of events over just the past few days has some political analysts saying that the 80-year, US-dominated Western alliance is crumbling under the force of what can only be called a radical break by the new Trump administration with the decades-old bipartisan consensus after just three weeks in office. A phone call between the U.S. and Russian presidents, an address at NATO HQ by the new U.S. secretary of defense, and a provocative speech by the U.S. vice president at the Munich Security Conference this week has left the Western World spinning. Is the Post-War Alliance Doomed? Is the West Dead?
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