If he becomes president again, a recently run wargame determined NATO could collapse under another Trump administration.
Donald Trump loves to complain about NATO and what he perceives as member nations not contributing enough financially to shared defense. He has threatened to put the U.S. on a “standby” position in NATO if member nations don’t bend to his will.
The wargame, run by British defense expert Finley Grimble, predicted that even if Trump doesn’t fully withdraw the U.S. from NATO, the organization could fall apart, Business Insider reported Sunday.
“A US policy of frustrating NATO has the potential to cause the alliance to collapse, with the EU as a candidate for eventually replacing NATO’s ultimate function — defending Europe from Russia,” Grimble, who served as wargamer and strategy advisor to the UK government, wrote on PAXsims.
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