BREAKING: THE END OF PAX AMERICANA

The US Congress just received a bill to kill the 76-year alliance that stopped World War III.

Rep. Thomas Massie dropped HR 6508 on December 9, 2025: withdraw America from NATO.

The numbers tell the real story.

Direct US cost: $800 million annually. Sixteen percent of a $4.9 billion common budget.

What that buys: Deterrence over 1 billion people. Zero Russian tanks crossing NATO borders since 1949. Zero great power wars in Europe for eight decades.

The math of collapse.

2019 House vote on NATO support: 357 to 22. Current bill cosponsors: zero. Passage probability: under ten percent.

But here is the fracture point no one sees.

The 2023 NDAA requires two-thirds Senate approval for withdrawal. The 2025 NDAA mandates 76,000 US troops remain in Europe. Congress is building walls around an alliance the executive branch keeps questioning.

Meanwhile, at The Hague in June 2025, NATO raised spending targets from two percent to five percent of GDP by 2035. All 32 allies now meet the baseline. The alliance is not weakening. It is hardening.

The paradox cuts deeper.

America spent $880 billion on defense in 2023. NATO’s entire common budget equals what the Pentagon spends in two days.

This is not about money. This is about whether America leads or retreats.

The bill will fail. The question it raises will not.

For seventy-six years, American power guaranteed European peace. The debate over whether that guarantee continues has now entered the congressional record.

History remembers the day the first cracks appeared.