With NATO's Car-Crash Ankara Summit Looming, the West Needs a New Survival Strategy (euobserver.com)

• No country can defend itself alone; flexible alliances are necessary.
• The Nordic and Baltic states plus UK and NL form the core of a new security architecture.
• The JEF is cited as a model for capable, risk-taking cooperation.

"The article argues that NATO is in crisis ahead of the Ankara summit, and the West needs a new survival strategy. It proposes a Post-NATO manifesto based on flexible alliances of like-minded states. The most promising group includes the Nordic five (Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden) and the Baltic three (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) together with Britain and the Netherlands as part of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF)."