Could NATO Burden-Sharing Be a Subtle Snare for the United States?

MATT MOWERS: After NATO Summit, Europe’s Free Ride Is On The Line

For decades, European nations have benefited from American strength, innovation, and generosity, without paying their fair share or offering reciprocal treatment. They happily take our protection, our products, our technology, and our money and turn around and lecture us about democracy and the economy. It’s a rigged game, and the American people are paying the […]

The latest NATO summit was the priciest humiliation fetish ever...

After a few insults and some light humiliation, Trump convinced Europe to bankroll his war machine - to the tune of 5% GDP. Fresh off dropping an "F bomb" on both Iran and Israel for blowing up the only ceasefire in history ever announced exclusively on his social media feed, US President Donald Trump hopped on his jet and headed straight to the NATO summit. Everyone wondered what mood he'd land in after crossing the Atlantic. Apparently not fee…

The Head of NATO Thinks President Trump ‘Deserves All the Praise’

There is no doubt that President Trump has had an electrifying effect on NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded after World War II to act as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. In theory, its member nations — 32 of them now, including most European countries, Canada, Turkey and the United States — are bound by a pledge of common defense: The alliance’s most famous provision, known as Article 5, states that an attack on one memb…

Could NATO Burden-Sharing Be a Subtle Snare for the United States?

Both Donald Trump and his legions of critics in Europe are celebrating the outcome of the latest NATO summit.  The centerpiece of NATO’s renewed image of solidarity was an agreement among all Alliance members (except Spain) to boost their annual defense outlays to at least 5 percent of their yearly gross domestic product (GDP).  Although […]

Finally, a Productive NATO Summit - Zeihan on Geopolitics

I don’t know what was in the water at the latest NATO summit, but something got Trump to be cooperative. Perhaps it had something to do with Mark Rutte greasing his wheels.Mark Rutte, the former Dutch PM, wasn’t just working his magic on Trump, he secured buy-in from several other leaders with his flattery and strategic diplomacy. This helped pre-summit defense spending agreements get formalized and saw countries like Germany step into a leaders…