Trump 2.0 and the end of NATO

No one in the European Union’s defence ministries believe that Washington would risk a nuclear war to defend European cities.

U.S. President Donald Trump has comprehensively trashed the European delusion that the United States would come to its defence if Russia invaded, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of the White House/Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 15, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—General The Right Honourable The Lord Ismay, KG GCB etc., the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, was probably holding a glass of port after an excellent dinner when he growled his famous remark: “NATO was designed to keep the ...

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