The President Who Undermined Nato Now Needs It

Allies remember who questioned Article 5, threatened Denmark and softened toward Moscow. Now Trump expects their ships, their soldiers and their trust.

After years undermining Nato, insulting allies and appeasing authoritarian rivals, Donald Trump now demands their help in a war widened by his own choices.

Donald Trump has spent years teaching the world a brutal lesson about alliances. To him, solidarity is not a principle. It is a transaction. Loyalty is demanded, rarely returned. Commitments are treated as leverage. Threats are dressed up as strategy. And now, having helped drag the West into yet another grave and avoidable crisis in the Middle East, he turns to the very allies he has mocked, undermined and endangered, and demands help.

There is a fitting ugliness to this moment.

This is, after all, the same president who treated Nato not as the most successful defensive alliance in modern history, but as a protection racket. The same man who cast doubt on Article 5, the alliance’s core promise that an attack on one member is an attack on all. The same man who menaced Denmark, a Nato ally, over Greenland in language more befitting an …