“Trump can erode NATO’s relevance,” Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, told The Hill. “Stop sending people to NATO meetings, slowly pull institutional people out of NATO, remove some enabling capabilities, stop communicating with allies. … It can basically make NATO practically irrelevant, even if it still exists.”
And even as Trump has voiced an unhappiness with the lack of support he’s getting from Europe in Iran, he still is relying on the continent’s airspace and bases to fight the war, Kavanagh said.
“He is still entangled in NATO and has to limit how far he pulls back so long as he continues to need those bases to fight,” she said.
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