> what NATO is even supposed to be doing in the 21st century 30 years after its raison d'être evaporated
NATO raison d’être was providing a shared framework for European security and preventing another general war in Europe, largely by tying West Germany into a durable common framework with other European powers.
It would be rendered redundant if replaced with a common EU security framework, but not by the collapse of Soviet bloc.
Yes, precisely, and "West Germany" is now simply "Germany". I'm not sure what point you're making.
>It would be rendered redundant if replaced with a common EU security framework, but not by the collapse of Soviet bloc.
I've seen this repeated in a dozen different places, and I can't parse what it even means. Alliances come and go. That's just the normal course of history.
NATO raison d’être was providing a shared framework for European security and preventing another general war in Europe, largely by tying West Germany into a durable common framework with other European powers.
It would be rendered redundant if replaced with a common EU security framework, but not by the collapse of Soviet bloc.