While the alliance contends with a possible future without the U.S., NATO’s secretary general Mark Rutte — who has spent a year fawning over Trump in an apparent attempt to diplomatically stroke the president’s ego — is tasked with keeping the president close.

The president, long a NATO skeptic, has been especially angry at alliance members in recent weeks for declining to take part in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

Trump is weighing troop shifts to punish NATO allies he says failed to support the U.S. during the Iran war, The Wall Street Journal reports

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday he believes that some NATO countries were tested and failed amid Washington's criticism over European allies not getting involved in the U.

Trump is reportedly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, and European leaders are coming to terms with what may be a true divorce, says an editor.

The one thing that Trump has been right about is that Europe has, since the Second World War, taken a decades-long nap beneath a stars-and-stripes-spangled umbrella. Europe can – and should – hope that the transatlantic alliance will hold but the continent absolutely has to act on the assumption that it won’t.

(Fixes links in last paragraph) MADRID, April 7 (Reuters) - Recent U.S. complaints about NATO allies and threats to quit the alliance are pushing European countries to seek alternative security arrangements,

NATO marks its seventy-seventh anniversary today under a cloud. President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday of his “disgust with NATO” over its failure to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

In 2024, Shaan Shaikh wrote, “Three Visions for NATO Air and Missile Defense,” where he laid out three potential scenarios NATO could take in the next few

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U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO. Trump remarks have ratcheted up his criticism of European allies and exposed a wider rift in the trans-Atlantic alliance.