All posts tagged "Nato"

A key U.S. ally is now dangerously exposed after months of President Donald Trump's "stymied" standoff, according to a new report.

A top U.S. general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon that he lacks enough naval forces to protect Israel from the looming threat of ballistic missiles, according to reporting by The Washington Post.

The warning comes as Trump's naval blockade of Iranian ports in response to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz uses up Navy destroyers....

A Trump biographer suggested that the reason Trump bombed Iran again was to get attention during the recent NATO summit.

During an episode of Inside Trump's Head podcast, biographer and author Michael Wolff said that the idea of Trump bombing Iran was to "upstage" his counterparts at the NATO summit.

"It sums up exactly who he is and what he does," Wolff said. "The only intention here is the attention paid to him."...

Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman offered a scathing review of Trump's recent threat against a key American ally.

In March, Trump warned of a complete trade cutoff with Spain after the country refused to allow U.S. military bases for operations against Iran. Even though Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was unfazed, Trump again threatened to ignite a trade war with Spain during an outburst at the NATO summit in Turkey.

"It was completely crazy," Krugman said in a Substack post on Wednesday. "This is not something that is real, except that the President of the United States did say this."...

A former U.S. diplomat went off on President Donald Trump and the way he's dealing with American NATO allies.

During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, Nick Burns, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO and China, discussed Trump's relationship with NATO and how he ignores what concerns them the most, which is the threat of Russia.

"NATO is important for the United States, and the threat now is Putin and Russia," Burns said. "So when the president says somehow the Atlantic Ocean is going to protect us in the 21st century from Russia, he's just badly mistaken."...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to escalate the controversy over President Donald Trump's intervention in a U.S, soccer player's suspension by using an upcoming NATO summit to focus on it.

While meeting with Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Perez Mackenna on Monday, Rubio was asked about Belgium's appeal of FIFA's decision to reverse U.S. player Folarin Balogun's suspension ahead of the World Cup match with Belgium.

"It was a bad decision," Rubio said of the suspension. "I think it was the right decision to reverse it."...

An ex-Republican strategist warned that a critical United States military alliance has already been so damaged by President Donald Trump that it's too late to save it.

"NATO's on the clock," Rick Wilson said in the latest episode of his podcast. "It's got three, two years left, tops. Even when Trump dies, even when he's gone, the poison he dumped into the system is so profound, I don't know how you reverse it."

Trump's most recent moves include withdrawing troops from Germany and Poland with little heads up to the U.S. allies. Wilson played a video of Trump trashing NATO because he was able to "blast the hell out of Iran" without their help....