President Trump Already Concentrates Minds On Defense

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte addressed the European Parliament last week with a clear message: ‘Europe isn’t spending enough on defense and the new US president will not like it.’ With Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office, the issue of defense spending will once again become one of the top issues Europe must grapple with. In his first term, Trump emphasized the lack of defense spending by NATO’s European members and often criticized them for freeloading on the US. He even suggested, that European countries owed the US back payments, threatened to pull out of the alliance if they…