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"America's NATO allies have been jolted from fear of US abandonment to fear of US hostility," remarked our Director Steven Everts in the Financial Times.
We now find ourselves in a different debate: do we trust the US guarantee at all? "This is compelling people to think the unthinkable, that this is not about changing the security bargain between the US and Europe. This is about Europe essentially finding itself alone with a partially hostile America," he added.
Steven also remarked that Trump's coercion over Greenland could have turned toxic not just for NATO, but for the EU as well since it would have tested the limits of internal solidarity. Even though Member States backed Denmark over Trump's threats, Steven raised the question of whether "if it really comes down to a choice, Greenland versus Ukraine or Greenland versus what is remaining of the Article 5 guarantee, are we going to maintain that level of unity?"