“We have to take him literally. We have to assume with Trump, as with Putin, that the worst case will happen,” he told The Independent. “Trump is the greater threat (to Nato) if you want to make the comparison. It’s Trump who gets the prize.”
January 27, 2026
Donald Trump
Independent, UK - Donald Trump represents a greater threat to Nato than Vladimir Putin, one of the alliance’s former commanders has said in a blistering attack on Washington’s foreign policy....General Sir Richard Shirreff, Nato’s former deputy supreme allied commander for Europe, said that Trump’s threat of military intervention in Greenland was “absolutely not bluster” even after the US president pledged not to use force to seize the island, which is a territory of Nato member Denmark.
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There are deep questions about NATO (and No, I never type it "Nato") that were never answered in the 1990s, after the Cold War ended, like "Why is an anti-Soviet, anti-Warsaw Pact organization still running in 1996?" Or "The Russians wanted to join NATO when Boris Yeltsyn was in charge, and we said No. Why was that?"
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