Today, the NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte is welcoming leaders from the alliance’s thirty-two member states to a summit in The Hague, where the proceedings will center on a single issue: the expectation that NATO countries will pledge to increase their defense spending to five per cent of G.D.P. In the coming years, perhaps months, the Administration plans to reposition American troops and equipment from Europe to Asia and other regions, though it has yet to offer specifics on how it will do this—something European leaders hope the President will clarify in The Hague. Nevertheless, the Hague summit will mark the beginning of a new NATO: one in which the U.S. begins a slow retreat from the role it has played in Europe for nearly eighty years.
Author: Joshua Yaffa
Published at: 2025-06-24 22:30:00
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