{"id":132231,"date":"2024-07-08T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/european-leaders-are-trying-to-trump-proof-nato-given-the-skepticism-toward-the-alliance-voiced-by-the-republican-presidential-candidate\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:05:59","slug":"european-leaders-are-trying-to-trump-proof-nato-given-the-skepticism-toward-the-alliance-voiced-by-the-republican-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/european-leaders-are-trying-to-trump-proof-nato-given-the-skepticism-toward-the-alliance-voiced-by-the-republican-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"European leaders are trying to \u2018Trump-proof\u2019 NATO, given the skepticism toward the alliance voiced by the Republican presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132231\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Western leaders are celebrating 75 years of NATO with an elephant in the room \u2014 will Donald Trump, who could again be the US president within months, blow the alliance up? This week\u2019s summit in Washington will look, without saying so explicitly, to \u201cTrump-proof\u201d NATO by expanding the role of the alliance itself \u2014 especially in supporting Ukraine, whose fight against Russia has drawn skepticism from the Republican candidate.<\/p>\n<p>US President Joe Biden and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg have both trumpeted the 32-nation bloc as the most successful military alliance in history, pointing to its role countering the Soviet Union and later protecting new European democracies after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Trump, whose motto is \u201cAmerica First\u201d and has voiced admiration in the past for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, has seen NATO from a dramatically different lens, accusing allies of freeloading off an overstretched and costly US military.<\/p>\n<p>In campaign remarks attacked by Biden, the New York real estate developer said he would encourage Russia to \u201cdo whatever the hell they want\u201d if NATO allies do not \u201cpay (their) bills.\u201d What exactly Trump meant \u2014 if he was serious or making threats to force Europeans to cough up more money \u2014 remains open to debate. In a March television interview, British anti-immigration politician Nigel Farage asked Trump if the United States would fulfill its NATO commitments if allies \u201cstart to play fair,\u201d to which Trump replied, \u201cYes. 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But John Bolton, a hawkish Republican who was Trump\u2019s national security advisor and later became an outspoken critic, has said that Trump is complaining about NATO allies\u2019 spending not as a way to cajole them into putting up more money but rather as a pretext to start a US withdrawal. Bolton in a memoir recounted that Trump at a 2018 NATO summit said \u201cwe will walk out\u201d and \u201cnot defend\u201d countries that do not meet spending goals.<\/p>\n<p>Even short of withdrawing from NATO, Trump could signal to Moscow that he would not care about NATO\u2019s key Article Five \u2014 that an attack on one ally is an attack on all. While president, Trump raised eyebrows when he described people in tiny NATO ally Montenegro as \u201cvery aggressive\u201d and capable of starting \u201cWorld War III.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025, an unofficial policy blueprint for a second Trump administration, led by the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, calls for transforming NATO so that US allies field \u201cthe great majority of conventional forces required to deter Russia,\u201d with the United States reducing forces in Europe and primarily offering its nuclear umbrella. The United States stations roughly 100,000 troops in Europe, a sharp increase since Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022. Elbridge Colby, a key advisor to Trump who served in his Defense Department, has argued that the United States is too concerned about Russia and should instead focus on China, with its much larger population and economy.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/elephant-in-room-at-nato-would-trump-blow-it-up\/article\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/elephant-in-room-at-nato-would-trump-blow-it-up\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/european-leaders-are-trying-to-trump-proof-nato-given-the-skepticism-toward-the-alliance-voiced-by-the-republican-presidential-candidate\/\">European leaders are trying to \u2018Trump-proof\u2019 NATO, given the skepticism toward the alliance voiced by the Republican presidential candidate<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[696,847,3873,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-europe","tag-nato","tag-trump","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}