Is This Where Trump’s NATO Ideas Are Coming From?

(Ian Ward – Politico) A top Pentagon policy official went to Munich this week to deliver a wake-up call to America’s NATO allies. Elbridge Colby, an under secretary of defense, warned them that the days when the U.S. served as the primary guarantor of European security are gone: “The core strategic reality …. is this: Europe must assume primary responsibility for its own conventional defense.”. It’s a message that President Donald Trump himself conveyed in his own brash way to America’s allies across the Atlantic, and which his administration has forcefully underscored in its latest strategic documents. But it’s still an idea that leaves Europeans scratching their heads: Where is Trump’s aggressive new stance toward the NATO alliance coming from? – Is This Where Trump’s NATO Ideas Are Coming From? – POLITICO