No one knows if President Donald Trump will withdraw the United States from NATO, the 75-year-old trans-Atlantic alliance that has kept the peace in Europe since the end of World War II. But the smart money is betting that Trump will, at the very least, downgrade the U.S. role to a junior partner.
Trump has already made the first moves to distance the U.S. from the rest of the 32-nation alliance. He has refused requests from Great Britain and France to serve as a backstop to a possible peacekeeping force in Ukraine, threatened to withhold U.S. protection for NATO members who don’t meet his new, higher defense spending demands, and badgered founding NATO member Demark to hand over Greenland to the U.S. or face possible military
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