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Looking ahead over the next year, expect European nations to accelerate efforts toward strategic independence. Germany is likely to increase defense spending, France will push for greater European autonomy, and Eastern European countries will diversify security partnerships, possibly forging bilateral alliances with the UK or other powers.
This trend signals the potential end of the American-led Western order established after World War II. No external enemy has defeated it; instead, internal contradictions—overreliance on the U.S., misunderstood threats, and misguided expansionist policies—are bringing it to an inevitable decline.