NATO, Trump and Defense Spending
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is expecting new pressure from US President-elect Donald Trump about the comparatively low defence spending of European allies including Germany. "He will want us to do more,
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House ... was constructed largely to counteract the influence of Russia. In the past, Trump has criticized NATO, saying it relies too heavily on American money and military strength.
Comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that dismissed the idea of speaking to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about Ukraine’s endeavor to join NATO have been presented out of context online.
Donald Trump has resurfaced an old position of his, that the US should take over Greenland, hours after also threatening to seize the Panama Canal.
NATO members could make a short-term pledge to increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, moving to 3% by 2030, according to the Financial Times.
A new body will assume responsibility for Ukraine aid, which one general called "a good day for Ukraine and a good day for NATO."
President-elect Donald Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland is not going over well with the autonomous territory’s government. The island’s prime minister was defiant in the face of the president-elect’s demands Sunday that owning the island was an “absolute necessity” for the United States.
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, tensions between the military alliance, which supports Kyiv in its defense efforts, and the Kremlin have continued.
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Europe “will spend more” on defence, the head of Nato has suggested, after he warned that “it is time to shift to a wartime mindset”. Mark Rutte, the organisation’s secretary general, told the BBC that US president-elect Donald Trump was “right ...