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Why European weakness will ensure NATO’s survival in the long run

“We no longer ‘need,’ or desire, the Nato Countries’ assistance,” President Trump posted on Truth Social last week, “WE NEVER DID!” Trump’s outburst sprang from ire over our NATO allies’ refusal to join US efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway controlling transit of about 20% of the world’s oil.

The post reflects Trump’s long-held frustration with our European partners for not pulling their weight and appears to confirm his conviction that “they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need.”

In the days that followed, Euroloser politicians have ranged from politely declining to blunt refusals to outright condemnation of American attacks on Iran.

These witless appeasers ignore that Iran’s Islamist regime and terrorist proxies have for decades assailed them, and us, with lethal attacks, arguably a trigger for NATO’s mutual defense provisions.

They seem bizarrely oblivious to their nations’ heavy dependency on imported oil and sensitivity to hikes in international energy prices.

The Europeans also appear to have forgotten that Iran is a major strategic partner of Russia, which it has actively assisted with equipment and intelligence as Putin’s armies ravage Ukraine even while Russia reaps an unexpected windfall — possibly as much as $5 billion this month alone — from the sudden surge in oil prices.

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