Could this be the most significant Nato since the Cold War?

While the world retains breath to see what happens next after American launching direct attacks on Iranne Nuclear Websites, American President Donald Trump is expected in the Netherlands on Tuesday for NATO Summit NATO.

This will be Trump’s first NATO meeting since he was re-elected. In the past, the comments about the members of the Alliance Freeloading off Heat security guarantee has been angry. European allies are desperate to prove it wrong. They hope to convince him that he does not pull troops or American skills from the continent.

“Relations with Europe are so tense because Trump returned to the White House – through trading tariffs, we were not sure to appear at this summit,” One high-level diplomat, who spoke to the state of anonymity.

“With Russia and China looking for Western weakness, it would be a disaster.”

But Moscow and Beijing can still get popcorn.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte designed this summit around Trump. He targeted him to lax him with huge hikers in defense consumption, to show that Europeans would now take more responsibility for their security.

Rutt also hoped that the meeting would focus on money, he would avoid potential conflicts or fall out between Trump and his allies.

To make a carefully placed plan could crash.

Depending on the next move, Iran, the main commander of the American Commander may decide at the last minute to remain in the Washington situation.

If it comes to Europe, as expected, how will it be possible to talk about the Middle East given what it is? This would introduce the risk of relegation between the American president and European allies, who advocated diplomacy due to the bombing when it came to Iran.

Trump loves victory and he is very thin skin. He does not want to feel any disapproval at the NATO meeting.

He was separately in the summit in the collections at the top, and European countries committed to spend a 5% of GDP offspring – exactly as he sought the first week in the White House.

“This summit is about credibility”, as the US Ambassador in NATO, Matthew Whitaker, puts it.

But Spain claimed on Sunday that she secured the checkout from a new consumption plan, which later refused something Routte later denied.

Other allies in Europe fighting to find extra cash are also a bristle.

The bottom line is: Europe must keep us great military and nuclear power. Thus, Rutta managed to tear a craftsman – Bar Spain – enrolled on a new pushy great consumption. It is a mass commitment.

But as a former US Ambassador in NATO, Julianne Smith, he told me – even then, there was absolutely no guarantees with Trump.

It is unclear whether the United States will report to the ultimate declaration of the ultimate prime of the identification of Russia as the main threat of NATO Alliance NATO.

The trust in Europe in the United States as his ultimate protector, he shaveless softly softly approaching Moscow, and at his hard pressure in Kiev, because he tried to end the war in Ukraine.

In addition, on Friday night, you almost could hear that European diplomats were grinding your teeth, after Trump Bliteli justified huge targeted of 5% of the defense he was asking for allies, while he was certain with allies and the US and the United States.

“I don’t think we should, but I think they should,” he said. “We support NATO for so long … Well I don’t think we should, but I think NATO countries should, absolutely.”

Then again, European leaders should better prepare better in terms of self-defense.

It can be a Blubest and the most fun, but Trump is in no way in any president of the United States, he wanted to move military attention and investments from Europe to other priority areas, especially Indo-Pacific. President Obama was very clear about it in 2011. years.

The United States has a nuclear weapon preserved in Italy, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. It has 100,000 troops that are ready for battles across Europe, 20,000 of them in Eastern European countries, which sent President Biden after the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

The continent could make a deficiency in the number of troops, especially with Germany and Polish plans to significantly build its basic forces in the next few years. But the European Dependence of the United States goes deeper, says Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy General Manager of the Royal Institute United Services.

He released on Washington for intelligence, supervision, developmental abilities and command and control. The United States has performed the role of leadership in NATO, bringing their members and strengths.

These are precisely the possibilities of a scarce and the necessary American army in Asia, says G. Chalmers. If it is removed from Europe, they should be repeated long to replicate.

Recently, many NATO countries avoid building continental abilities, such as the expansion of French nuclear umbrella to other allies, for fear that they could now say, “Oh, you don’t need anymore, you don’t need anymore.”

But now, Europe is forced to make more security responsibilities, not only to persuade Washington to stay – but also that the US president decides to decide to a greater or lesser, to decide to be more or less in a larger or lesser extent.

No one knows what Trumps are intentions. European NATO Leaders recently facilitated recently, when General General General General General Aleksus Grinkevich announced American War Forces Aleksus Grinkevich, take over the traditional American NATO position of the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. Which implied commitment to the defense union.

But Washington conducts his military military consumption and defense review. Announcements are expected in the fall. The thought is unlikely that there will be new American funds for Ukraine. And it is very likely that 20,000 additional troops in Eastern Europe will be the first American forces to be drawn from the continent.

Nevertheless, Poland says that they will attend the NATO Sunday Summit in a confident mood. Contrary to Spain, Warsaw believes that it is a surgery – wearing more of its national income on defense (currently 4.7% of GDP) than any other NATO member, including the United States. The goal is written to build the most powerful zenic army in Europe.

During the Cold War, Poland lived under the shadow of the Soviet Union. Neighbors of the land of Ukraine. It is not difficult to convince the pillars that the defense is a top priority.

For politicians in countries away from Russia, the argument is more challenging. The Spanish media are full of speculation that disagreements about the delivery of the Defense could crush an insecure coalition government in the country.

Trying To Both Placate Trump By Agreing To His Defense Spending Demands, While Also Sweening The Pill For More Cash-Strapped European Leaders, NATO Is Proposing To Split The 5% of Annual National Income On Defense, With A Further 1.5% of GDP to be spent on “defense-related” issues, like expanding cargo sea ports in the netherlands, for example, or france investing in cyber security.

This is an additional bonus of Europe in accordance with US military spending of 3.4% of GDP – a huge psychological orientation, a former assistant secretary for defense investments in NATO and now expert experts in the European advice of external relations.

But, however, you play with data, we are talking about the authorities who need more to spend billions of defense. The money must come from somewhere.

Or new taxes – Estonia’s method tests – or more lending, which will be extremely expensive for countries like Italy that already have large amounts of government debt. Another option is to reduce welfare consumption – known as “guns or butter” or “tanks or pensions”.

With its strategic examination, the United Kingdom recently emphasized the need for more military spending, but Mr. Chalmers says they did not fully prepare their polling streets or other European governments, nor most other European governments have prepared their polling elections for compromises that a huge new investment in defense will be needed.

The timetable to reach a 5% goal is key. NATO Allies have called on a 7-10 year-old window. NATO Secretary-General suggests that it could be too late. With the Moscow economy, very much at war base, Russia will be able to attack NATO countries within five years, he says.

Defends that Europe does not only apply to how many governments they are implemented. Since what is important that spend their money.

The great European weakness is that there are many duplicate and incompatible abilities on the continent: allegedly 178 different types of weapons and 17 different tanks in the EU, for example, for example. Putting on the side of the National Defense Agreement and Pride and the Association of European Resources on behalf of Efficiency, is still another Thornia discussion that is likely to be rewarded on this weekly summit.

So, which definite results can we expect?

It is very dependent on the man who arrives in the Netherlands on the Air Force radiation.

Trump Ambassador to NATO says the meeting could be historically.

“Silk Moment” is how I still told me another high level – and probably “the most important NATO summit”: the moment Europe began to spend as much as the US on defense and really took responsibility for his security.

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