Last week, America issued a National Security Strategy with some scathing words about its Nato allies in Europe. Europe, the strategy document claimed, is at risk of civilisational erasure. Donald Trump’s often sounded negative about the alliance and its European members. Here he is talking to Politico earlier this week.

Jim Townsend, NATO's former deputy assistant defense secretary, sharply criticized President Donald Trump's security strategy for NATO as "music to the ears of those in the Kremlin." President Trump's security strategy,

Some NATO members could soon become “majority non-European” which could raise questions about their future loyalty to Washington, according to the U.S. National Security Strategy which outlines President Donald Trump’s foreign policy priorities.

President Donald Trump has urged allies to up their defense spending. And in an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, Trump jokingly said,

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the former Dutch prime minister, referred to Trump as "daddy" during the alliance's annual summit in June. But Trump's own administration has also called him "daddy" in recent months, raising questions about the origins of the president's nickname.

Leo XIV warned that Trump's disparaging remarks about Europe and NATO could fracture the longstanding US-Europe alliance that he considers vital "today and in the future."

The diplomat questioned whether Europe would be a dynamic economy or just somewhere Americans visit for lovely wines, cheeses and beers

BRUSSELS (AP) — Over the course of 2025, a new reality has sunk in for Europe. The United States, long its strongest ally, has chipped away at the European Union’s unity, economies, security and even its democracies, setting the backdrop for an EU summit this week at the end of an exceptionally trying year.

America’s new vision of its place in the world has left its European allies wondering whether Nato can survive in its current form.