Fear in the western camp; Trump and the possibility of dissolution of NATO – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

Mehr News Agency, International Group: Donald Trump’s decisive victory against Kamala HarrisIt was not the desired and expected result of America’s European allies, because the two important institutions of the Western alliance, the military organization “NATO” and the “European Union”, both have bitter experiences in cooperation with Trump. They remember very well that during his first term as president, Trump repeatedly challenged the necessity of NATO’s continued activity and questioned the contribution of European military participation. Therefore, it is natural that the central headquarters in Brussels is worried about whether Trump’s America may still remain in NATO or not.

The fear and concern of NATO leaders about Trump’s future decisions has become important in a situation where, in addition to the American president, many political thinkers have also stated many times that NATO belonged to the Cold War era and Hayat and mission It is over and must be dissolved.

Trump’s condition to stay in NATO

Analytical report of the newspaper Politico About one of Trump’s recent interviews, affirmative It is a fact that he still has a pessimistic view of the NATO alliance, but at the same time he has made some conditions and said: “America will not withdraw from NATO, but only on the condition that the European countries play fair and have the support of the United States.” Sue Don’t use it.”

Both the role-playing expressions “fair” and “no Sue Using America’s support” is the main keyword of Trump’s attitude towards the NATO alliance. He is a pimp Mabane He wants European countries to allocate a larger share of their budgets to military spending, and secondly, to follow America more in the final decisions. It is based on this logic that Trump has repeatedly claimed that if he remained in power, he would not have allowed the war between Russia and Ukraine.

The latest spending report released by NATO shows that despite Trump’s constant complaints about European countries being stingy with military spending, many of these countries, including Poland, Lithuania, Romania and Hungary, as well as Spain, Greece and Finland, have increased their defense spending percentage. have increased over the past three years. Of course, two rich countries, England and Norway, as well as Italy, during the era of Joe Biden They lowered their military expenses, and by the way, now all three countries should expect that they will soon be exposed to the cannon and Comments Trump to meet. This point is reminiscent of a part of the memories of former German chancellor Angela Merkel, who, during a trip to Washington and a meeting with Trump, suddenly faced the question: “So when are you going to pay us your debts?” After Merkel expressed surprise, Trump said: “I mean defense spending.” Germany is one of the NATO countries that has not spent enough money on the defense sector are!

It is said that about two-thirds of the 32 NATO member countries spend 2% of their GDP on defense, according to the conventional agreement. But Germany, as a rich NATO ally, often allocates an amount of 1.5 percent, and Trump was angry about this in the previous period.

Trump against Putin

Ed Mac Mullenthe former ambassador appointed by Trump to Switzerland, in an interview with ABC News to this The problem He pointed out that Trump will act in his own personal way in making decisions about NATO, but Mac Mullen At the same time, it has been claimed that Trump has great experience in controlling power Vladmir He has Putin and in the new era he knows how to control Putin. Meanwhile, Anthony Gardnerthe former ambassador of the United States to the European Union, who was appointed by Obama, believes that, in addition to Trump, many other American politicians have repeatedly criticized the performance of NATO, but still preferred to keep the alliance. Gardner says: “Trump’s concerns about the level of participation of NATO allies in provide Defense spending is reasonable and European countries should pay more. But some of Trump’s comments and positions actually disarm European allies against Russia. The guarantee of collective defense is still the main reason for the continuation of NATO’s activity, and no one should joke about this issue.

Gardner He pointed out some other important points, which reveal some important problems and challenges within the NATO organization takes off has:

1. The issue of paying attention to national interests among European countries does not have a particular coherence and there are scattered definitions and approaches regarding this debate.

2. A lack of national security threat perception among many countries makes it difficult for the NATO alliance to increase defense spending.

3. How is a significant part of the defense budget of NATO allies spent ineffectively, and the vast majority of the military budget is spent on things that are not related to the battlefield and combat readiness, and even the payment of military retirees’ salaries and regular personnel’s salaries are defined under the same budget. does

What do international relations experts say?

This is not the first time that Trump’s attitude towards life and death NATO has become a challenging issue because Trump has been highly critical of NATO for years and has openly said, “NATO has to be fair to America, because if the United States is not in this group, there is literally nothing to do.” The name of NATO will not exist.

Although it is difficult to predict Trump’s possible actions, everyone knows that Donald Trump’s previous statements and actions related to NATO are worrying for Europeans, and basically he is not a predictable politician! But in addition to Trump and other politicians, several political analysts and theorists have questioned the necessity of NATO’s continued activity in the post-Cold War era and have emphasized the necessity of disbanding or starting important reforms in this organization. They say that basically NATO was created in the post-World War II era just to contain the Soviet Union and it does not make sense that this mechanism should continue. For example, George Kananthe famous American diplomat, was an early critic of NATO expansion, arguing that it would provoke Russia and endanger European security. His prediction came true and NATO’s decisions to join Georgia and Ukraine angered Russia.

John Mearsheimer As an American political scientist and researcher of international relations, he argues that NATO has achieved its goal several decades ago and should now be dissolved. If NATO stays on its feet, it will achieve nothing but provoking Russia and weakening the stability of Europe. Besides MearsheimerA thinker close to him is Stephen Walt He also criticizes the expansion of NATO and wants to limit the scope of American foreign-military policy. Meanwhile, Richard Saku British researcher and professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent and author of the book post-communismbelieves that the continued existence of NATO leads to the continuation of the Cold War mentality and increases the tension between Russia and the West.

Europe’s dependence on America has now practically become a serious challenge. According to Stephen sideman analyst Institute (The Conversation), “American forces are the nerve center and circulatory system of NATO, and the command and control systems that operate on the basis of encryption knowledge and the support of satellites and the most advanced munitions are all from America. provide they become As a result, if Trump imposes restrictions on cooperation with NATO, the Western military alliance will be severely weakened. If the US withdraws, NATO’s deterrence power will be lost; Especially when the other two nuclear powers in this coalition, namely France and England, have enough effective are not France acts cautiously and England after Brexit It does not have good relations with Europe.