NATO is an organization of North Atlantic countries, and is built around their interests. India in such a group would be out-numbered by those countries and their interests, and would hardly get a fair hearing from them.
The problem is that the US is in a European orbit, and needs to awaken from its stupor to realize that it has 360-degrees of interests, and not just interests with the North Atlantic countries. It is this blinkered approach to foreign policy that has seen the US blinded to the rise of China and trans-nationalist Islamist terrorism. The only enemies the US has been able to focus upon in the past have been Berlin and then Moscow.
The American tendency to gravitate towards its European cousins has to do primarily with the fact that "blood is thicker than water" - ie. most Americans are of European ancestry, and so they naturally tend to look towards Europe for foreign alliances. The other very important fact is that European extra-territorialists within the US foreign policy establishment are legion.
The US needs to break free of its current blinkered views on foreign policy, otherwise it will continue to be caught behind.
The problem is that the US is in a European orbit, and needs to awaken from its stupor to realize that it has 360-degrees of interests, and not just interests with the North Atlantic countries. It is this blinkered approach to foreign policy that has seen the US blinded to the rise of China and trans-nationalist Islamist terrorism. The only enemies the US has been able to focus upon in the past have been Berlin and then Moscow.
The American tendency to gravitate towards its European cousins has to do primarily with the fact that "blood is thicker than water" - ie. most Americans are of European ancestry, and so they naturally tend to look towards Europe for foreign alliances. The other very important fact is that European extra-territorialists within the US foreign policy establishment are legion.
The US needs to break free of its current blinkered views on foreign policy, otherwise it will continue to be caught behind.