
NATO conducted its largest-ever special forces exercise in Europe as the United States continues to reduce its military support for allied nations, signalling a significant shift in Western defence posture. This fracturing of the Western alliance mirrors the biblical pattern of global instability and the weakening of traditional power structures that Scripture associates with the lead-up to the end times. Luke 21:9-10 warns of 'wars and rumours of wars' and nations in conflict, while Daniel 2 describes the fragmentation of the final world empire as iron mixed with clay — unable to hold together.