Secretary general says politicians should build a relationship with the Republican like they did in 2016
Photograph: Kin Cheung/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Kin Cheung/AFP/Getty ImagesEurope must not fall into the trap of creating a “self-fulfilling prophecy” that Nato would die under a second Trump presidency and that the transatlantic bond would be over, the secretary general of the military alliance has said.in the same way they did in 2016, no matter what the rhetoric during the US election campaign.
On Wednesday night, Vance signalled that the US’s commanding role in global security would not be a given in a Trump administration, telling party faithful gathered at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee that US soldiers would no longer be sent overseas unnecessarily. “We will send our kids to war only if we must,” Vance said.Read more
He also argued that the US would stay in Nato because the alliance’s members represented 50% of the world’s “military might”. If the US leaves it would stand alone and represent just 25% of that military capability.
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