If NATO is not offering its full promises, these “lower tier” NATO members will quickly find new allies in the form of the petrostates and China instead.
Trump doesn’t care. He thinks the tinpots around the world love him and will support him.
He’s right, of course, but not for the reasons he thinks he is.
Not to mention larger countries like Germany, Italy, maybe even the Nordics might all of a sudden see a requirement for having their own nukes instead of relying on the US nuclear umbrella.
NATO members, on lower tier, start to block USA from conducting flights, exercises, and weapons storage.
You can’t have tiered membership in military allies.
If NATO is not offering its full promises, these “lower tier” NATO members will quickly find new allies in the form of the petrostates and China instead.
Trump doesn’t care. He thinks the tinpots around the world love him and will support him.
He’s right, of course, but not for the reasons he thinks he is.
Not to mention larger countries like Germany, Italy, maybe even the Nordics might all of a sudden see a requirement for having their own nukes instead of relying on the US nuclear umbrella.
That will make us all safer.
Exactly, then import tariffs on goods etc. then America becomes an isolated theocracy.