Quite obviously the military-industrial complex on all sides has gotten rather bored of the relative peace we saw for sometime after the fall of the USSR, so we need another cold-war potentially building up into contained, localised conflicts again, so we can expect allegations like these fly thick and fast now and in the future. Quite obviously nation states of all hues have stopped protecting or even representing the welfare of the majority of their people but instead work for the powerful minority, be it a fuedal clan or a sophisticated network of big business or anything in between. And these are served well by continuing conflicts and poverty and localised war. The only thing they don't want is an all out global war but they don't realise they have to be careful what they wish for, as history has shown repeatedly.
I think the economic, military and political power behind NATO would consider a military confrontation that might escalate into a third world war if they determine that without such a war world events would lead to an existential threat to there existence.
A four or eight year Detente between the United States and Russia combined with an integration of Eurasian defence strategy could see a dramatic obsolescence of an organisation that is no longer politically relevant nor operationally capable to fulfill its mandate.
Currently both of those trends are moving forward.
