A look from Stratfor.
Core NATO members such as France and Germany certainly disagree with this turn of events, but have lacked the influence to stop it. That has become — and will continue to be — the case because of the admittance of NATO’s newest members. All of the fresh blood can be safely grouped into the “new Europe” that U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld so charmingly coined in the lead-up to the Iraq war. These states all share historical experience in betrayal by France and domination by Germany and Russia.
Also, VDH’s friday column is somewhat related.
Not So Fast 