NATO summit, strong tension between Trump and the allies: "Will many defaulting countries repay the United States?"

ROME – Trump arrives in Europe, and Europe is scared. He fears that the "Donald Method" can only bring new anxiety and uncertainty to a continent that believes it has been in the crosshairs of what should be its main ally, the United States of America . The NATO summit in Brussels tomorrow and Thursday will be held on the eve of a meeting that Trump held with Vladimir Putin, as to confirm the US president's fatal attraction to the Russian. Trump arrives in Europe after another public attack on the European states for the lack of resources dedicated to NATO. NATO countries should devote 2% of their GDP to defense; they do it only in 5, starting naturally from the USA. Monday with a few tweets and in a public speech Trump repeated that "the United States spends more on NATO than any other ally, a situation that is not acceptable, is not correct, and the costs for NATO defense are very useful more towards Europe than towards the United States. "

Attacks that were repeated by tweets during the trip to Brussels then to the # The arrival (he landed just before 21). "Several NATO countries, which we must defend, not only do not maintain the 2% compromise (which is weak), but they have been dying for years will they pay back the United States? "He tweeted from Air Force One. And then:" The European Union makes it impossible for our farmers, our workers and our businesses to do business in the United States. Europe (the US has a trade deficit of $ 151 billion) and they want us to defend them happily through OTA NOT. that's why it does not work well! "

Attack against Germany
In the center of the viewfinder, Germany is mostly accused of exporting too much in the US and pay too little for his defense. "These countries have started to increase their defense spending since I was president," writes Trump, "but Germany spends 1% and states 4%, and Europe enjoys much more than the United States. "

In his statements, the US president suggested that at the Brussels summit he could announce a reduction in the US involvement in Europe.And in fact, his Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, has undertaken in recent weeks a tough underground work to rebadure his counterparts. This morning, NATO and the European Union signed a new collaboration agreement. And Council President Donald Tusk has not lost the opportunity to warn Trump: "The United States has no better European ally and Trump who for some time has criticized the United States. EU almost daily must remember tomorrow at the NATO summit but especially when will meet Russian President Putin in Helsinki ".

"I really hope that Trump will contain his anti-European messages to what is necessary for his" domestic "policy, I hope that he will not come to the summit with Vladimir Putin in Finland after demolishing more than necessary the Alliance that America itself leads, "says Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, an Italian diplomat who was the former Deputy Secretary General of the Alliance and who is now president of the NATO Defense College Foundation, and we will understand the role of his new national security advisor, John Bolton, who replaced General McMaster, a field agent, in the White House. who has known the strategic importance of NATO for American interests in recent weeks. "

Donald against his staff

Like Tomas Valasek, former Slovak ambbadador to NATO and today director from Carnegie Europe, says: "The unpredictability of Trump is not a side product of his policy, but an essential part of his way of doing politics: Trump arrives at the top of NATO not only ready to make controversy with his allies, but with his own staff, with his advisers ". It is not a coincidence that today the New York Times writes that Trump in the phone call of congratulations to Putin for his reelection complained about his own staff with the Russian President . Some advisers had advised him not to call him and he told Putin that "they are stupid people, we should not listen to them".

Moscow: NATO is a challenge for us

It is no coincidence that Russia's Vladimir Putin salutes the summit on Wednesday and Thursday with a political attack in Putin's style . "NATO is a product of the Cold War to confront Russia," said Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov. A definition in which "confrontation" is the difficult and radical political-military challenge that the United States and Russia have faced during the decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. For Peskov "this Alliance is a product of the Cold War and the confrontation of those years, it was created in the name and in the sign of the clash, all that has been done in advance to our borders, developing its military structures in the direction of our borders ". The paradox is that today the "leader" of this alliance, Donald Trump, could be much more in agreement with the Kremlin spokesman than with European political leaders that the born should protect of the Russian desire to keep its sphere of influence in Europe.