What is President Donald Trump’s real approach to both NATO, and the US security guarantee to Europe?The election of Donald Trump as US president has created unprecedented uncertainty about America’s security guarantee towards its allies in Europe.If there was a rational core of his critique of NATO, it seemed to be that it should focus on ‘Islamist terrorism’ rather than the threat to its eastern flank from a revisionist Russia.Earlier this month, Trump seemed to change his mind and said NATO was ‘no longer’ obsolete because it ‘now’ fights terrorism. However, although this statement has been widely interpreted it as …read more
Source: Royal United Services Institute