It shouldn’t come as a surprise that NATO members may start planning and implementing the steps necessary for a post-American Europe.
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Before entering office and in the year and a half since, officials comprising the second Trump administration’s defense and foreign policy establishment have been sending a clear message to our NATO allies in Europe: The United States is no longer putting as much of an emphasis on the alliance nor on the defense of the European continent.
Mike Nelson is a retired Army Special Forces officer and a member of the Atlantic Council’s Counterterrorism Project. He is formerly of the Institute for the Study of War and the National Security Institute. You can find him on x.com at @mikenelson586.
