Detail of ‘family photo’ taken during the 2025 NATO Summit in the Netherlands, Le Havre – Wiki Commons Stop slacking, allies. Ever since his first US presidential mandate, Donald J. Trump has been pressuring NATO allies to step up defense spending and to take a greater role in their own defense. But, by now, after the military confrontation against Iran, a secondary complaint has been at the forefront of the US relationship with the alliance: not only did countries like the UK and Italy refuse to aid the American forces in the confrontation, but they wouldn’t even allow the US to utilize the airfields during missions. This has led to much talk about American forces’ withdrawal in Europe, as well as cutbacks in military assets…
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