David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for KBZK.com about President Trump attending the NATO summit.
After a two-day NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, President Donald Trump is visiting the United Kingdom, where protesters are gathering in London and the Green Day song “American Idiot” has scaled the British pop charts. With the summit now in the rearview mirror, it is now all but totally clear, that even once close friends within NATO have lost all patience with Trump.
Following an impromptu victory lap, Trump took at a hastily called news conference at the end of the summit to crow over a claim that NATO allies had agreed to increase defense spending “at levels they never thought of before.”
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America needs NATO — a strong, united and functioning NATO, with a single purpose and speaking with a single, loud, powerful voice — more than ever during its seven decades of existence. With a European Union strained by powerful forces of the left and right struggling for supremacy from Britain to the Baltics, with immigrants clamoring for entry and ever newer torments from its ancestral enemy Russia, NATO has been a single constant that has stood largely unchallenged.
Until now.