The more the Republican president talks about the NATO alliance, the greater the concerns about his commitment to the international partnership.
President Donald Trump said NATO countries must sharply increase their defense spending, demanding member states push beyond current benchmarks that many of them already struggle to hit.
The return of Trump will once again put European defense spending levels at the center of the United States’ approach to NATO. Over the past several years, NATO members have boosted investments, with about 20 out of 32 members hitting the alliance’s benchmark of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense.
But even a smaller increase could help Ukraine, and could benefit U.S. armsmakers as well, according to a former senior White House official. “I'm also going to ask all NATO nations to ...
President also plans to ask for "financial contribution" for maintenance of remaining troops, European diplomatic source said.
The Trump administration has asked the three Democratic members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent executive branch agency, to resign by end of day on Thursday or face termination,
America has fallen through the looking glass into an un-wonderland where the Red Queen’s demand for “sentence before verdict” has become the law of the land.
Congress passed legislation that a president cannot unilaterally withdraw from NATO, setting up a major legal fight if Trump tries to pull the US out.
Dmitry Medvedev took aim at President Joe Biden on Sunday as he criticized the president's approach to the Russia-Ukraine war.
The plan illustrates the continued ambitions of the Trump family to forge new international deals even as President Trump has returned to the White House.
Trump did not mention Ukraine in his inauguration speech but has told reporters that Vladimir Putin would be destroying Russia by not agreeing to a peace deal.