Europeans look for military alternatives to USA because of Trump’s NATO and Iranian statements–could this also lead to a German banking crisis?

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Many in Europe have concerns over US President Donald Trump’s anti-NATO alliance comments. Notice also the following:

Europe mulls the prospect of a NATO without the US

7 April 2026

“NATO is broken,” says Ivo Daalder, not mincing his words. The former US ambassador to the transatlantic alliance believes that tensions between Donald Trump and European allies over the Iran war have thrust NATO, which turned 77 years old this month, into the “worst crisis” in its history. …

It’s not just the insults Trump flings at the alliance and its European members, to which they’ve become quite accustomed. Trump repeated his view on Monday that NATO is a “paper tiger” that won’t support the US in its war against Iran.

Nor, the former ambassador says, is it even Trump’s repeated threats to withdraw from NATO, which is accompanied by the more practical concern that he would be unwilling to participate in collective defense if another ally were attacked, the guarantee pledged by NATO’s Article 5. …

Daalder says it is the combination of Trump’s vitriol along with the fact that many European governments have now gone beyond just refusing to help fight Washington’s war on Iran, with instances of  denying Trump the right to use bases or refusing to grant airspace rights for offensive action.

“The European action is a reflection of the fact that NATO is deeply damaged,” he adds, “and it reinforces the fundamental reality that Europe no longer trusts the United States, believes the United States is an unreliable ally, and therefore is no longer willing to participate in these kind of operations. That is why this is the worst crisis of NATO.” …

Of course, there are plenty of ways Trump could kneecap NATO without leaving and without obtaining congressional approval. He could simply decide to bring troops home, cease supplying NATO commands and institutions with personnel — some of which is already happening — and even, to be very dramatic, decide not to staff the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe, a military post that always goes to an American. …

The International Institute for Security Studies (IISS) has researched what this could look like, urging “European decision-makers to consider the military, financial and defense industrial investments needed to reduce dependencies on the US and, in extremis, to prepare for a NATO without any U.S. role.” …

In his remarks Monday, Trump … once again lambasted Europeans and other countries for failing to join the Iran war.

He ended his press conference with a cryptic, perhaps ominous, statement: “We want Greenland. They don’t want to give it to us. And I said, ‘bye-bye.'” https://www.dw.com/en/europe-mulls-the-prospect-of-a-nato-without-the-us/a-76682522

US remarks on NATO are pushing Europe to seek alternative security options, Spain says

April 7, 2026

MADRID, April 7 (Reuters) – Recent U.S. complaints about NATO allies and threats to quit the alliance are pushing ​European countries to seek alternative security arrangements, Spanish Foreign ‌Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Tuesday.

After European countries declined to send their navies to open up the Strait of Hormuz to global ​shipping following the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran ​on February 28, U.S. President Donald Trump has declared he ⁠is considering withdrawing from the alliance, thrusting it into a ​crisis. … “We must take our citizens’ security and dissuasion into our own hands,” … To do so, he said, the EU should advance ​toward a pan-European ​army and ⁠integrate its defence industries, but also create a digital single market and a capital markets union. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-remarks-nato-are-pushing-europe-seek-alternative-security-options-spain-says-2026-04-07/

Notice that the Spanish Foreign ‌Minister says Europe needs its own army and to become more united militarily and economically. Yes, he is pushing for what will be the final resurrection of the ‘Holy Roman Empire’–the final Beast power of Revelation 13.

Although many in Europe feel that way, Europe may well have major economic problems before its final rise.

In December 2025, we produced the following NATO related video:

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USA to leave NATO?

There are bills being promoted by US politicians in both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives to have the USA leave NATO alliance by 2027. There is also the new National Security Strategy report from the Trump Administration which looks to change NATO. Europe is offended, but is preparing for this to take place. How so? By taking economic (expanding trade relations) and military (by increased spending and added troops) steps And it is the military preparations by Europe that should most concern the United States. Dr. Thiel points out how the fragmented state of the European Union will lead to the reorganization of Europe (Revelation 17:12-13) which will ultimately bring about the rise of the prophesied King of the North (Daniel 11:39-43). Could a blitzkrieg type of an attack under the guise of a NATO-type exercise lead to the conquering of the USA? Scriptures quoted by Dr. Thiel point out that when this reorganization of Europe takes place the destruction and enslavement of the United States of America, the nation with the strongest fortresses, is not far behind. Daniel 8:23 tells us this King of the North understands “sinister schemes”. Could one of those sinister schemes be the destruction of the United States? Are there other scriptures that confirm this destruction? Who is Assyria? Who is Samaria? Who is Ephraim? The answer is surprising but makes clear many scriptures that were sealed until the time of the end. The answer to the identity of Assyria, Samaria and Ephraim as referred to by the prophets Isaiah and Hosea is provided by Dr. Thiel in this video. Watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of Biblical prophecy on the future of the United States of America and its British descended allies. Listen as Dr. Thiel explains the scriptures that prophesy the end of the United States by its friends, such as Lamentations 1:1-2. The time is getting closer.

Here is a link to our video: USA to leave NATO?

Notice something related to Germany, the EU’s biggest economy:

Germany’s Debt Spiral: Bundesbank Chief Breaks Silence

April 7, 2026

It’s not every day that top officials of the German Bundesbank take an explicit stance on daily politics.

Nagel’s stark warnings about Germany’s debt and the government’s creative accounting were surely met with grim recognition in Berlin’s corridors of power. Open criticism is rare there, and when it comes from credible insiders, it stings even more.

Since January 2022, Joachim Nagel has led the Bundesbank. Recently, he warned for the first time about the unchecked growth of public debt—breaking Berlin’s long-standing elite vow of silence. Last year, he said, national debt rose by €144 billion to €2.84 trillion, pushing the debt-to-GDP ratio to 63.5 percent.

Some may recall the Maastricht limit, which capped debt at 60 percent. Those times are long gone, and the official debt numbers are, of course, grossly misleading.

For years—especially since the banking bailouts 15 years ago—the government has operated shadow budgets. Hoping the public won’t dig into fiscal details, these rarely illuminated debt channels are declared “special funds,” off the official books. Over 20 such hidden debt pots inflate actual state debt by at least €550 billion. Germany’s real debt likely sits near 80 percent of GDP and could exceed 85 percent by the end of this fiscal year. …

Against this backdrop, the Bundesbank president urged a return to sound budget planning. Deficits must be reduced mid-term without cutting essential infrastructure. Sadly, Nagel stopped short of endorsing free-market principles outright, missing the chance to clarify that the diversion of additional debt via special funds is systemic. …

Germany—and nearly all of the EU—is trapped in a debt spiral. Turmoil in capital markets, broad restructuring, and massive wealth and debt redistribution loom. A standalone debt haircut would be systemic death: it would shrink circulating fiat credit and trigger a deflationary shock beyond the capacity of banks to absorb—a dead-end.

When will Germany begin monetizing its treasure, its massive gold reserves? Four years ago, the government under then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz pressured the Bundesbank to sell part of its gold to fund the defense special fund. https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/germanys-debt-spiral-bundesbank-chief-breaks-silence

As far as Europe facing an economic crisis goes, notice something the late Pastor General of the old Worldwide Church of God, Herbert W. Armstrong, said in a sermon on July 7, 1984:

And I can see now, the event that is going to trigger the formation of the reunification in Europe; the resurrection of the medieval Holy Roman Empire that we’ve been looking forward to that is prophesied to come…

But I believe that some event is going to happen suddenly just like out a blue sky that is going to shock the whole world and is going to cause the nations in Europe to realize they must unite! … Well now I think I can see what may be the very event that is going to trigger…that is the economic situation in the world…

The whole banking structure in the United States is a network all jointed together. But not only that, one nation has to deal with other nations and imports and exports. And so they have to have a means of transforming money from one nation to another. And so the banking structure is international and interwoven …

Now when the financial structure breaks down, all civilization is going to break down …

So, an economic or banking crisis is what Herbert W. Armstrong concluded would drive Europe to unite.

The Bible shows that a major reorganization is prophesied to happen and push Europe under totalitarian control:

12 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. (Revelation 17:12-13)

Economic issues will be one of the factors that will get Europe to decide to reorganize and support a dictator that the Bible calls the Beast. Overall, I expect there to be several factors including economic, migrant, religious, health concerns, trade issues, and distrust of the United States that will motivate Europe to reorganize and be under the leadership of a demon-influenced (Revelation 16:16:13) dictator.

The USA has been pushing NATO allies away, consistent with biblical prophecies such as Lamentations 1:1-2.

As I have written before, this will not only not end end well for the USA (Daniel 11:39; Isaiah 10:5-11), it will end up badly for even many Muslim countries (cf. Daniel 11:40-43), and ultimately, even Europe itself (cf. Daniel 11:45; Revelation 17:14).