President Donald Trump Injects Uncertainty into NATO Summit
At the White House before a NATO summit, President Donald Trump criticized
Israel and Iran’s continued hostilities, calling for Israeli pilots to return
home and avoid ceasefire violation. When President Donald Trump travels here Tuesday for a consequential summit of
NATO leaders, he’ll arrive toting a freshly brokered ceasefire he hopes can
prove to his skeptics. President Donald Trump on Tuesday injected some
uncertainty over whether the U.S. would abide by the mutual defense guarantees
outlined in the NATO treaty as he headed to its summit, sparking concerns from European allies.
Trump’s first appearance at NATO since returning to the White House was supposed to center on how the U.S. secured a
historic military spending pledge. However, his focus shifted as he lashed out at both Israel and Iran for violating the ceasefire in the Middle East. The conflict between the two countries will undoubtedly loom large over this summit, just as it did with the G7 summit in Canada last week.
Former national security adviser John Bolton warned that President Trump’s decision on whether to join Israel and begin bombing Iran appears to be driven more by impulse than deliberate policy, raising concerns about the approach to international relations within the administration.
