According to Politico, two national security experts associated with likely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are speculating about how much Ukrainian territory Russia might retain after the war ends.
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Trump is also allegedly considering an agreement under which NATO would undertake not to expand eastward, in particular into Ukraine.
The article also says that Trump not only expects European countries to dramatically increase their NATO spending when he becomes president, but also to do what one defense expert familiar with the thinking in Trump’s national security adviser circle, Dan Caldwell, describes as a “radical reorientation” of NATO.
Trump is unlikely to leave NATO outright, according to interviews with former Trump national security officials and defense experts who are likely to serve in a second Trump term. But even if he doesn’t formally leave the organization, that doesn’t mean NATO will survive a second Trump term unchanged, Politico reports.
A quick resolution to the two-and-a-half-year-old conflict in Ukraine is also likely to play a key role in Trump’s NATO plans.
In a previously unreported plan for Ukraine, the Republican nominee is mulling a deal that would commit NATO not to expanding eastward, specifically into Ukraine and Georgia.
Another element of Trump’s plan is a two-tier NATO system, a proposal first floated by General Keith Kellogg.
It suggests that NATO member countries that fail to increase their defense spending to 2% of their GDP, as Trump insists, “will not be able to benefit from the defense capabilities and security guarantees of the United States.”
“We no longer have a choice. The U.S. national debt is rising, military enrollment is declining, and the defense industrial base is declining and unable to cope with the challenges from Russia and China,” says adviser Dan Caldwell.
He describes Trump’s plans as a “radical reorientation of NATO” that would involve “a significant and substantial reduction in the US security role – away from being the main provider of combat power in Europe and towards being a supporter only in times of crisis.”
Others said that if Trump is re-elected, the United States would still retain bases in Europe to provide a nuclear umbrella.
Source: Racurs
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