Left Party leader argues that US-led military bloc “has no future” Germany’s Left Party co-leader Jan van Aken has called for NATO to be replaced with a new security alliance involving both Russia and the United States, arguing that the US-led military bloc “has no future.” In an interview with Die Zeit published on Saturday, van Aken said the party continues to support its 2011 national platform, which called for Germany to exit NATO and help create a new collective security system. “We never