Och vad kan då D. J. Trump tänkas göra när/om han besegrat den allt mer skröplige Joe Biden: Trump’s Plan for NATO Is Emerging
På sätt och vis kan jag förstå vad som påstås i artikeln, Europa måste göra mycket mer själva - både när det gäller försvarsmakterna och försvarsindustrin. Hur det nu ska gå till, med putinister och fascister på frammarsch i de allmänna europeiska valen. Som vill ha "fred och välstånd" - på Putins villkor! Om det ens är möjligt:
V.v. observera att ovanstående bara är spekulationer. Av The Donald kan man förvänta sig i stort sett vad som helst.Politico skrev:Altogether, Trump’s new approach in these areas would amount to a revolution in NATO’s affairs — one that many critics say Europe is wholly incapable of accomplishing in the foreseeable future. The U.S. is by far the largest contributor to NATO operations, spending about $860 billion on defense that represented 68 percent of the total expenditure of the NATO countries in 2023. That is well over 10 times more than that of Germany, the second largest-spending country. A substantial portion of that U.S. expenditure, which amounts to about 3.5 percent of U.S. GDP, goes to the defense of Europe though the Pentagon refuses to divulge publicly how much, says Jeremy Shapiro, research director for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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The biggest issue with Trump’s emerging approach to NATO may be that the European nations are plainly not prepared to fill a dramatically expanded military role anytime soon — despite their tentative plans for “Trump-proofing” NATO by pledging more spending, experts say. But they may have little choice since Trump would have more leverage to demand what he wants from Europe this time around because the U.S. is still supplying the lion’s share of military aid to Ukraine, and Europe is weaker economically and more dependent on U.S. energy supplies than ever before.
European leaders are in denial, many U.S. critics say. “They don’t really have any idea of how to replace the United States,” says Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Fitful efforts by French President Emmanuel Macron to push for more independence from the U.S. defense umbrella have fallen flat. Stoltenberg, in the final months of his 10-year term as NATO’s secretary-general, has taken to arguing that Americans ought to be satisfied that European defense is helping to sustain the U.S. defense industry. “They’ve decided to have abiding faith that the U.S. will be there,” said Shapiro. “It seems to me that’s not really a plan, it’s the hope you have in the absence of a plan.”
Och Ukraina ska vi bara inte tala om: Det överlämnar jag till Politico.
