But allies have agency too, and are already planning their. Trump was asked at a news conference tuesday whether he would rule out using “military or economic coercion” to take greenland and the panama canal, both of which he. Donald trump wants us allies to spend more on defence and has threatened nato members with coercion.
Trump has a long history of denigrating nato, and former administration officials say he repeatedly threatened to withdraw the u.s. In his first term, president trump episodically threatened to pull out of nato, removing the united states as the linchpin of the most successful military alliance in modern. From the alliance that has been central to.