If public opinion in NATO countries is shifting against the war and to that effect towards the election of parties that are seen to represent that public sentiment, how can this attempt at preventing newly elected political forces from changing this course be considered democratic? I am no expert but to me it looks tantamount to a despotic force looking for loopholes to change the constitution to prevent their rightly elected adversary from taking power. It saddens me to say this but I think these new forces in NATO, EU, and USA represent an undemocratic despotic oligarchy bent on cementing their power against the will of the people and bringing the world to a new world conflict.