{"id":335368,"date":"2024-02-12T13:10:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/02\/12\/trump-minacce-nato-reazioni-bruxelles\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:23:46","slug":"brussels-outrage-at-trumps-threats-on-nato-if-allies-dont-defend-each-other-everyone-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/02\/12\/brussels-outrage-at-trumps-threats-on-nato-if-allies-dont-defend-each-other-everyone-is-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels’ outrage at Trump’s threats on NATO: if allies don’t defend each other, everyone is at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The US presidential race is\u00a0seriously starting to concern Brussels, and not just the European Union<\/a>. With the latest threats from former President Donald Trump<\/strong> – running to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 election\u00a0– all of NATO finds itself in a nightmare that, in the last years of Joe Biden<\/strong>‘s Democratic presidency, seemed to be behind us. “Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, <\/strong>and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk,” North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General\u00a0Jens Stoltenberg<\/strong>, said, responding to\u00a0 Trump’s threats that Washington would not defend allies who do not spend enough on defense from Russian aggression.<\/p>\n

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From left: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and former U.S. President Donald Trump (Nov. 14, 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At a rally in South Carolina on Saturday (Feb. 10) Trump used very harsh words against the other 30 NATO allies, recounting a purported conversation in his years as president: “One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, \u2018Well, sir, if we don\u2019t pay, and we\u2019re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?\u2019 I said, \u2018You didn\u2019t pay, you\u2019re delinquent?\u2019 No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them [the Russians ndr] to do whatever the hell they want.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0The prospect is disturbing considering the possible re-election of\u00a0The Donald<\/em>\u00a0to the White House and Republican’s skepticism in Congress in providing further military and financial support to Kyiv and risks of the conflict expanding to Europe. This is why the comments outraged not only Stoltenberg but also\u00a0leaders EU institutions and EU member states, just days before the NATO Defense Ministers’ Summit scheduled for Thursday (Feb. 15) and the Munich Security Conference between Friday and Sunday (Feb. 16-18), when these issues will be discussed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“The Transatlantic Alliance has underpinned the security and the prosperity of Americans, Canadians, and Europeans for 75 years. <\/span>\u00a0Reckless statements on #NATO<\/a>\u2019s security and Art 5 solidarity serve only Putin\u2019s interest. <\/span><\/strong>\u00a0They do not bring more security or peace to the world,<\/span>” European Council President Charles Michel<\/strong>\u00a0said on X<\/a>. “On the contrary, they reemphasize the need for the #EU<\/a> to urgently further develop its strategic autonomy and invest in its defense. And to keep our Alliance strong,” he added. Belgian Prime Minister and current president of the EU Council, Alexander De Croo<\/strong>\u00a0reiterated<\/a> that “our greatest asset in the face of Putin is our unity, and the last thing we should do is to compromise it.” Dry was the comment of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0who talked about “a silly idea that comes during this electoral campaign in the United States.” NATO cannot be an alliance \u201c\u00e0 la carte<\/em>\u201d. It exists, or it does not exist,\u00a0<\/strong>” Borrell added. Poland’s Defense Minister, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz<\/strong>, warned<\/a> that “no election campaign is an excuse to play games with the security of the Alliance,” while Germany’s Foreign Ministry published<\/a> on X the motto “one for all and all for one,” recalling that “NATO keeps more than 950 million people safe – from Anchorage to Erzurum.”<\/p>\n

“\u00a0I<\/span> expect that regardless of who wins the presidential election, the U.S. will remain a strong and committed NATO ally,“<\/span><\/strong> NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg summed up: “\u00a0<\/span>Any attack on NATO will be met with a united and forceful response.” Two issues are at the heart of the matter: national defense investments and NATO’s Article 5. In 2014, the allies agreed\u00a0on a goal of spending at least 2 percent of GDP on defense and security<\/strong>, although several Alliance member countries (including Italy) still haven’t achieved\u00a0 <\/a>this target. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty<\/a> states that an attack against an ally is an attack against every component of the Alliance and that, consequently, each of the 31 NATO countries “will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” In other words, this is a collective mutual defense clause, which can be activated (but not necessarily or mandatorily)<\/strong> in case\u00a0of an attack on a NATO member. “If my opponent, Donald Trump, is able to regain power, he is making it clear as day that he will abandon our NATO allies if Russia attacks and allow Russia to \u2018do whatever the hell they want\u2019 with them,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0US President and likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

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The former U.S. president (running for the 2024 election) warned that Washington may not protect other Atlantic Alliance countries that do not spend enough on defense. Harsh reactions from top leaders of EU and NATO institutions before the Defense Ministerial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":335232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[26318,25837,26411,26317,25792,26326,26418,26420],"class_list":["post-335368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-nato-en-2","tag-charles-michel-en","tag-donald-trump-en","tag-jens-stoltenberg-and","tag-josep-borrell-en","tag-states-united-en","tag-election-united-states-2024-en","tag-states-united-eu-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335480,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335368\/revisions\/335480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}