MESOP NEWS TODAYS SPECIAL : Today’s Insight – NATO FUTURE UNDER TRUMP

NATO’s Changing Face Under the Trump Administration | Kaitlin Lavinder, The Cipher Brief
It is unlikely that the United States, in the coming months and years, will withdraw or fail to uphold its commitments to the alliance, NATO will be disembodied, and transatlantic defense will be abandoned. It is likely, though, that the face of NATO will change – it will be less U.S.-centric, with European allies taking on more responsibility for their own defense, and more focused on 21st century threats, such as terrorism and cyber attacks.

Expert Commentary

The New Administration and the NATO Alliance | Admiral James Stavridis, Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
“Now, we want them to hit that 2 percent of GDP spending on defense goal that they have set for themselves. And they should do that, and we should put pressure on them to do it. But it would be a mistake for us as a business proposition to simply walk away from all those assets and all of that capability and all of that partnership.”

NATO’s Future – Grim or Hopeful? | Brigadier Genergal (ret.) Jarosław Stróżyk, Former Deputy Director of the Intelligence Division, International Military Staff, NATO
The anxiety comes with Trump’s calling the NATO alliance “obsolete” and his campaign promise to defend NATO allies only if they meet their obligations. Understanding that campaign rhetoric has its own set of rules, and is not necessarily what actual policy will look like, is the sole glimmer of hope for NATO’s future.

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