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ANKARA / WASHINGTON — Transatlantic security is facing its most critical existential crisis in decades as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to withdraw all 80,000
ANKARA / WASHINGTON — Transatlantic security is facing its most critical existential crisis in decades as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to withdraw all 80,000 American military forces from Europe following a bitter fallout with NATO allies over the recent war with Iran. Speaking at the NATO leaders' summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump revealed he used the Middle East conflict as a 'loyalty test' for the 32-member alliance, expressing deep disappointment that key European allies—including Germany under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italy under Giorgia Meloni, and Spain—refused to support Washington's military campaign, blockaded the use of sovereign airbases, and declined patrols in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
In retaliation, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has launched a sweeping si month Pentagon force posture review, with a planned drawdown of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany already underway. Trump has further escalated tensions by reviving demands for U.S. control over Greenland from Denmark, slamming Spain as 'hopeless villains' for refusing base access, and questioning whether the trans-Atlantic defense pact has become a 'paper tiger'. As NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte scrambles to salvage diplomatic relations, global markets are rapidly pricing in the collapse of collective defense guarantees, leaving European capitals to grapple with the terrifying prospect of countering geopolitical threats on their eastern flank entirely alone.
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