{"id":14712,"date":"2025-06-25T07:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14712"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:53:31","slug":"donald-trumps-wavering-on-nato-defence-pact-casts-pall-over-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14712","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s wavering on Nato defence pact casts pall over summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=e55f27db-3ebe-44fd-b621-228238ca04ef&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Nato leaders are bracing for Donald Trump to redefine the alliance\u2019s mutual defence pact, amid concern that he will water down US security commitments that have protected Europe for eight decades.<\/p>\n<p>The US president will meet his 31 Nato allies in The Hague on Wednesday, where European leaders hope their vows to increase national defence spending will convince him to maintain America\u2019s protection if their countries are attacked.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump has sparked alarm by telling reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that Washington\u2019s commitment to Nato\u2019s Article 5, which refers to its mutual defence pact, \u201cdepends on your definition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said there were \u201cnumerous definitions\u201d of Article 5. \u201cI\u2019m committed to being their friends. I\u2019m going to give you an exact definition when I get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments had cast a pall over the gathering, three European officials at the summit told the Financial Times, and threatened to mar an event designed to keep the US engaged in the transatlantic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe summit rests on what Trump decides,\u201d said one of the officials. \u201cWe are all just sat here waiting for him to tell us if he will defend Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments about Article 5 follow previous threats to only defend allies that spend more on defence, startling European leaders who fear that Russia could attack a Nato member within the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Torrey Taussig, former director of European affairs at the White House National Security Council, said it was \u201cthe last thing that Nato secretary-general Rutte or Nato allies wanted to hear, as the entire summit has been carefully choreographed to secure US commitment to Nato and to avoid any dust-ups with President Trump\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Mark Rutte has strained to make the summit Trump-friendly, reducing it to a two-and-a-half hour discussion and praising him in a private message for forcing Europeans to increase their military spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEurope is going to pay in a BIG way, as they should, and it will be your win,\u201d Rutte wrote in the message, which Trump published on social media.<\/p>\n<p>That unity on more spending has been challenged by Spain, which has refused a pledge to spend 5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035, sparking demands from other governments for flexibility on the target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpain\u2019s not agreeing, which is very unfair to the rest of them,\u201d Trump said on Air Force One on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>He added that the US should also not pay the same as \u201ceveryone else\u201d, arguing that European defence spending helped boost infrastructure and \u201cwe don\u2019t have any roads in Europe, we don\u2019t have any bridges in Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte, arriving at the event on Wednesday, dismissed concerns that the Spanish stance would derail the summit and restated his belief that Trump was committed to Nato. \u201cThere is absolute clarity that the US is committed to Nato, committed to Article 5,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Leaders of other European Nato member states also sought to provide reassurance about Trump\u2019s intentions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think President Trump is relativising Article 5,\u201d Finland\u2019s President Alexander Stubb said as he arrived at the summit. Norway\u2019s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said he believed Trump was \u201c100 per cent\u201d committed to Nato and the alliance\u2019s mutual defence pact. Bart De Wever, Belgian prime minister, said: \u201cIt is crucial that Article 5 is not subject to interpretation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But Rachel Rizzo, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council\u2019s Europe Center, said she did not know that Trump had \u201cever given\u201d a clear statement that he would stand by Nato\u2019s mutual defence pact. <\/p>\n<p>The rest of the alliance was \u201cmaybe looking for something they\u2019re just never going to get\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The US, by far the largest defence spender in Nato, is the alliance\u2019s irreplaceable member state, with many European countries dependent on its long-range missiles, intelligence and surveillance assets.<\/p>\n<p>While previous US presidents have demanded European allies spend more on defence, Trump has gone far further than his predecessors by linking Washington\u2019s security support to their commitments.<\/p>\n<p>He has also demanded that defence spending be \u201cequalised\u201d between the US and the rest of the alliance so American military assets could focus more on Asia and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Trump administration, everything is a negotiation and everything is on the table,\u201d said Sophia Gaston, research fellow at King\u2019s College London. \u201cAnybody who believes anything different is frankly naive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e55f27db-3ebe-44fd-b621-228238ca04ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the 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