By Amy Maynard-
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has warned US President-elect Donald Trump against “going it alone” .
Stiltenburg said going it alone was not an option for Europe or the United States.
Stressing the security challenge facing the West, Stolenburg said the West faced its greatest security challenge in a generation.
During his election campaign, Mr Trump described Western military alliance Nato as obsolete.
He addressed Trump’s campaign words that the western military alliance was obsolete, and stated that the US would think twice about coming to the aid of any Nato ally under attack if it had not paid its dues. Those words have haunted Nato Secretary General, Jens Stilternberg
Stiltenberg acknowledged that Mr Trump was right about the need for some members to make a bigger financial contribution, considering the US currently accounted for almost 70% of Nato spending.
The Nato General Secretary acknowledged that Mr Trump was right about the need for some members to make a bigger financial contribution, considering the US currently accounted for almost 70% of Nato spending.
However, the Nato General secretary believes it will be dangerous for U.K and U.S relations for America to go it alone. Stiltenburg expressed his views in the U.K’s Observer’s newspaper that American leaders had always recognised that they had a profound strategic interest in a stable and secure Europe.
“It is all too easy to take the freedoms, security and prosperity we enjoy for granted. In these uncertain times we need strong American leadership, and we need Europeans to shoulder their fair share of the burden,” the former Norwegian prime minister wrote.
“Going it alone is not an option, either for Europe or for the United States. We face the greatest challenges to our security in a generation. This is no time to question the value of the partnership between Europe and the United States.”
Nato General Secretary, Stilberg said that more than 1,000 have paid the ultimate price in an operation that is a direct response to an attack against the United States”, though what that attack to the United States is was not specified, but left to a vague interpretation.
Putin’s Hopes For America To Go Alone
On Friday a spokesman for President Putin said that Mr Trump could help build confidence with Russia by persuading Nato to withdraw its forces from Russia’s borders. Nato will not want remove its army from Russia’s boarders, Nato General Secretary hinted at this without distictly stating so. However, what needs to happen is a close scrutiny of the whole issue, in order to fairly and objectively determine the right course of action.
Approaching the state of affairs from an inflexible position will not be proper.However, with Trump’s loyalties believed to be affiliated to Putin, there are concerns in the U.K and the U.S that his misjudgements may play into the hands of the Russian president and compromise the security of Europe.
Approaching the state of affairs from an inflexible position will not be proper..However, with Trump’s loyalties believed to be affiliated to Putin, there are concerns in the U.K and the U.S that his misjudgements may play into the hands of the Russian president and compromise the security of Europe. Nato General Secretary, Jens Stilberg, is convinced that Nato needs to take maintain it’s army on the Russian boarders, and would want Trump to stick with Nato in consistence with America’s allied history with Britain , which is part of Nato. However, hot
However, hot Brexit controversy complicates things, especially with president-elect Trump already making known his support for Brexit. Trump notably referred to himself as mr. Brexit times five, after his election Triumph.
Nato General Secretary Doesn’t Trust Farage
The Nato General Secretary doesn’t trust Farage, because he knows Farge is anti-europe. There would be no puzzle with the Nato General with regards to Nigel Farage’s input to discussions surroubding Europe.
Nigel Farage, the interim Ukil leader, may want America to go it alone as far as the military is concerned. who is the first British politician to visit Trump is against Europe, and will be contributing to influencing Trump to trade with the U.K without Europe.Farge will be working towards aligning the UK with the U.S away from Europe, to secure the implementation of brexit in consistence with the referendum. It makes things a little messy and complicated if Farage has set the tone of discussion about Europe without the UK government.
However,the BBC reported that the former head of Britain’s armed forces, Lord Richards, said Mr Trump had already begun “modifying his tone” with respect to his policies, and he cautioned against taking campaign statements at face value.
Right Not To Go Alone
“His insistence that Nato countries must start paying a bit more for their collective defence, I think, will strengthen Nato, and help Nato make it clear to Russia, should it be necessary, that it’s a serious organisation that will defend its members in a crisis,” Lord Richards, who served as Nato commander in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio’s The World This Weekend programme.
He added: “The reality of becoming president, of inheriting this great mantle of the defender of the Western world and of leading Nato, will curb and impinge and direct much of what he’s got to do. He’s inheriting a long history here, and I think he’ll do the right thing by us all.
All makes sense, but the ”right thing” is a value judgement,and Farage and Trump may just have their own judgement on what is right here. The one factual certainty here is that the world is evolving in an unpredictable and very intriguing way.