AMERICANTHINKER - The 2026 NATO Summit Confirmed A New Transatlantic Bargain
American Thinker By Ruel Domi President Trump has been clear: As China becomes a rising threat, America cannot single-handedly carry the burden of Europe’s defense.
NYTIMES (Greg Jaffe and Eric Schmitt) - Trump Faces the Limits of U.S. Firepower and the Lessons of Past Wars
Like his predecessors, President Trump has struggled to turn battlefield successes into long-term victories.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Luke Nicastro) - European Rearmament Is a Trap
The United States should pursue a pullback no matter how much Europe spends on defense. The post European Rearmament Is a Trap appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs European Rearmament Is a Trap The United States should pursue a pullback no matter how much Europe spends on defense. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that a plan by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to announce sweeping troop cuts in Europe had been blocked. Per the WSJ : The U.S., [Hegseth] planned to say, was preparing additional cuts to its forces in Europe that would go beyond the canceled deployment of an armored brigade to Poland and the earlier withdrawal of an infantry brigade from Romania… But Hegseth’s proposal was nixed after it was shared with Marco Rubio—President Trump’s…Open
NYTIMES (Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein) - Trump Is Remaking the World Map. What Could Go Wrong?
A system of fuzzy borders, in which powerful states treat territory as negotiable and sovereignty as conditional, is not a viable alternative to the liberal world order.
BITCHUTE - Ep 3910a - Trump Says The US Will No Longer Fund Other Nations, Economic System Is About To Change
AMERICANTHINKER - China and Trump’s Business-first Framework
RawPixel.com The post-World War II order treated the world as a chessboard of fixed spheres. Trump’s business-first diplomacy treats it as a balance sheet where every aggressive move carries an immediate debit.
NEWSCATS (MeighTimbol) - UN Faces Cash Crunch as Trump World Shrugs: Global Body Nearing Financial Breaking Point
Photo courtesy of the United States House Committee on Appropriations. Published May 5, 2026 The United Nations—the sprawling international institution long championed by globalists as the backbone of diplomacy and humanitarian coordination—is staring down a [...]
NEWSCATS (Diana Zapata) - Trump Dismisses NATO Role in Crisis Response, Signals Frustration With ‘Paper Tiger’ Allies
Geopolitical midgets Macron, Merz, and Starmer are again getting trolled by Trump Published April 18, 2026 President Donald Trump sparked fresh diplomatic controversy after appearing to downplay the role of NATO allies in managing escalating [...]
NYTIMES (Aishvarya Kavi) - Year After Trump Takeover, Institute of Peace Is Little More Than Scenery
As a lawsuit by the former staff drags on, the fight highlights President Trump’s upending of traditional peace-building and the lasting effects of his administration’s cost-cutting blitz.
NYTIMES (Nicholas Kristof) - Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?
The United States helped create safeguards to limit the brutality of war, and now I fear President Trump is dismantling them.