May 13, 2026 TANVI RATNA: Europe says Trump made America unreliable. The truth is tougher America's new defense strategy rewrites the transatlantic bargain, prioritizing China deterrence and allied burden-sharing over old commitments to Europe.
May 9, 2026 As Trump forces NATO to pay up, alliance races to close military gap with US Trump pressures NATO allies to boost defense spending as experts describe a decades-long commitment gap between political promises and military capability.
May 6, 2026 Trump ‘right to be outraged’ by Europe’s betrayal on Iran, says former Thatcher advisor President Trump is putting Europe on notice, vowing the U.S. will remember the lack of support during the Iran war as Germany, Italy, Spain and others put on warning.
May 4, 2026 Trump signals deeper Europe troop cuts beyond 5,000, setting up fight with Congress Trump threatens to pull U.S. troops from NATO allies Germany, Italy and Spain after they resisted supporting operations tied to the Iran conflict.
April 20, 2026 Trump may claim he won the fight with Iran, but there’s a bigger war already underway President Trump's Iran campaign pressured Tehran but accelerated a China-Russia-Iran axis while pushing NATO closer to a historic break.
April 19, 2026 Trump criticizes Spain amid Iran, NATO rift as PM Sanchez faces questions over political motives Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez is leveraging his stances on Trump, Iran, and Israel to coalesce the global left amid mounting political scandals involving his wife and brother.
April 17, 2026 Greenland talks on ‘good trajectory,’ White House says amid Trump takeover push U.S. officials say negotiations with Denmark and Greenland are moving in a positive direction, even as tensions remain over Trump’s push for greater U.S. control of the strategic Arctic island.
April 15, 2026 WATCH: Ex-NATO chief draws red line as Trump fumes alliance abandoned US during Iran war Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance should not be drawn into supporting U.S. military operations against Iran, calling NATO defensive.
April 12, 2026 Carney casts himself as NATO defender amid Trump beef, despite Canada missing key benchmark for decades PM Mark Carney defends Canada's NATO commitment amid Trump criticism, despite Canada missing the 2% defense spending benchmark since the Berlin Wall fell.
April 10, 2026 AMB GORDON SONDLAND: NATO blinked on Iran, and Trump has every right to be furious A former U.S. ambassador to the EU argues NATO's hesitation after strikes on Iran emboldens adversaries and erodes the credibility of Western deterrence.