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137309
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THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS has forced NATO not only to readjust its plans but also its aims. Time is short: corresponding documents should be ready by the Wales Summit scheduled for September 4-5, 2014 which "will shape the future of our Alliance."1 According to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Alliance's Secretary General, "later this year, in Wales.... we need to take tough decisions in view of the long-term strategic impact of Russia's aggression on our own security."2 Alexander Vershbow, NATO's second-in-command, followed suite: "Moscow's role in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has forced NATO to reconsider the alliance's opinion on Russia" and, probably, to revise its strategy.
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PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Donald Trump called NATO an obsolete organization and demanded that the European allies should contribute bigger "fair shares" to European security. This includes, among other things, total fulfillment of their obligation to steadily raise their share of military expenditures up to 2% of their GDPs. This caused consternation among the European leaders and the fears that America's role and guarantees would be eroded, transatlantic unity weakened and the role of NATO undermined. Trump's unconditional acceptance of Brexit as the Brits' wise move fanned doubts in the new American administration's wholehearted devotion to the strategic alliance with Europe/EC and its ability to remain NATO's responsible leader.
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156326
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THE MAY 25, 2017 MEETING of NATO heads of state and government was from the start seen as a key political event, being a venue of U.S. President Donald Trump's first European visit. During this meeting, the new conditions for the transatlantic treaty, both within the alliance itself and in the broader context of American-European relations, had to be determined. The Trump-NATO topic was a hot issue even during the new president's electoral campaign, once he had declared the alliance to be a useless and outdated organization. NATO members had wanted to meet with the new U.S. president earlier, but this turned out to be unrealistic in light of their uncoordinated positions and the need for preliminary political and diplomatic consensus. Trump's stop-off in Saudi Arabia, where he signed a $110 billion arms deal, and his subsequent visits to Israel and the Vatican before engaging in direct dialogue with the United States' main strategic partners, served only to increase the level of concern and areas of tension within NATO.
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