{"id":1368,"date":"2026-06-10T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:10:40","slug":"ex-national-security-official-warns-trump-has-already-destroyed-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Ex-national security official warns: Trump has already &#8216;destroyed&#8217; NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump has \u201cdestroyed\u201d the 77-year-old NATO alliance, \u201cwithout tearing up the treaty or even firing a shot,\u201d argues former Trump Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor at Defiance.News.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1366\">Famed conservative paper comes out against Todd Blanche<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the heart of NATO sits Article 5: the principle that an attack on one member is an attack on all, and the commitment that every member will come to the attacked nation\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, who served in the first Trump administration, points to a survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations that finds majorities in every country polled doubt the United States would come to their aid if they were attacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a stake in the heart of the NATO alliance,\u201d writes Taylor. That core Article 5 promise is \u201cno longer believed by the very people it was written to protect. You can\u2019t deter an adversary with a \u2018guarantee\u2019 your allies now think is hollow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if Trump doesn\u2019t care about this or is too inept to understand these numbers, Vladimir Putin is paying close attention,\u201d warns Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlliances aren\u2019t built on paper,\u201d he explains. \u201cLike a marriage, that\u2019s just where they get documented. America\u2019s most important alliances are built around shared belief, i.e. a conviction that when the worst comes, your friends will come for you. The genius of the postwar order that American diplomats Dean Acheson and George Marshall built was that it made that belief credible enough to deter the Soviet Union for forty years without a shot fired across the Fulda Gap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeterrence,\u201d he notes, \u201clived in the minds of our enemies. And it\u2019s in the mind that Trump has done his damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1364\">Data guru reveals path for Dems to retake the Senate \u2014 without Platner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taylor also points to another \u201ctruly terrible\u201d part of that poll he says found that \u201cjust 11 percent of Europeans across fifteen countries now regard the United States as an ally. That\u2019s a record low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He calls it a \u201cgut punch\u201d that Trump will be headed to France to attend a G7 meeting in mid-June, and later to Turkey for a NATO summit in early July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump will go into those meetings as the most diminished American president in the history of the transatlantic alliance,\u201d Taylor observes.<\/p>\n<p>Europeans are now doing \u201cwhat frightened nations have always done\u201d: arming themselves because they don\u2019t believe friendship with America is something they can rely on.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor notes that European nations used to buy American-made weapons in part because they believed they would at some point be fighting alongside America. Now they are buying weapons from other countries because they fear at some point they may not.<\/p>\n<p>He offers one note of optimism: that poll also found that in every nation polled but one, \u201cmajorities of Europeans believe relations will improve the moment Trump leaves office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1363\">Republicans in turmoil as members use trick to undermine party leaders<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has \u201cdestroyed\u201d the 77-year-old NATO alliance, \u201cwithout tearing up the treaty or even firing a shot,\u201d argues former Trump Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor at Defiance.News.At the heart of NATO sits Article 5: the principle that an attack on one member is an attack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-national security official warns: Trump has already &#039;destroyed&#039; 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