U.S. Allies at NATO Focus on Europe as the Trump Administration Steps Back
European NATO allies launch Arctic Sentry and increase defense spending as U.S. reduces troops and command roles, shifting conventional defense leadership to Europe.
- U.S. allies at NATO are focusing more on Europe's defense as the Trump administration steps back from leading the alliance.
- European countries and Canada have to buy American weapons to donate to Ukraine now that U.S. supplies have dried up under Trump.
- Britain announced an extra $682 million in urgent air defense for Ukraine, while Sweden will fund more American weapons purchases.
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Europe's NATO allies today dismissed concerns that the US has abdicated its leadership role in the world's largest security organization, leaving it and Canada to do the bulk of Europe's defense work.
NATO allies focus on Europe as Hegseth, Rubio skip meetings
European allies at NATO on Thursday brushed aside concerns that the United States has stepped back from its leadership role of the world’s biggest security organization, leaving them and Canada to do the lion's share of defending Europe.
Trump 'permanently weakening' the US by 'quiet quitting' NATO: defense expert
President Donald Trump is radically altering NATO — a multinational alliance that has maintained global security in the roughly eight decades following the end of World War II — so that instead of the US being the leader of its more than two dozen members, it is instead merely “one of 32.”Instead of openly abandoning NATO the United States under Trump is "quiet quitting," which means stepping back piecemeal from the leadership role it had previo…
By LORNE COOK BRUSSELAS (AP) — The European allies in NATO left aside on Thursday the concerns that the United States has taken a step back in its leadership role in the world’s largest security organization, which would leave them and Canada with most of the burden of defending Europe. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not attend Thursday’s meeting of defense ministers at the headquarters of the military alliance in Brussels. His absence…
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