United States

Throughout the Alliance's history your had tensions between members like Greece and Turkey, you've had tensions over the Iraq war, but what is new and different, both in the first Trump administration and now, is that it's the Alliance's biggest, most powerful and most influential ally that is disrupting the pace and unanimity in the Alliance...the attacks and the angry words...I think says more about the pressure that President Trump is facing at home to end the Iran war, to bring the economy back in track and to deliver results as he promised....I think it says more about the US president than it does about the state of the Alliance."

With Moscow producing “6,000 to 7,000” one-way attack drones per month, NATO allies would be left without high-value air defense missiles within “weeks,” said Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute...“If we can get air superiority over a contested area, then even Europe on its own could devastate Russian forces in the field,” he said, suggesting bolstering purchases of American-made AGM-88G missiles, with a range of up to 300 kilometers.

I think and I hope it will not be like the past because asymmetric relationships where one partner is overly dependent or reliant on the other is never healthy. In this particular geopolitical environment, the UK can no longer rely solely on that so-called special relationship and the assumption that the US will be the primary most reliable or closest ally of the UK. Particularly under Trump where he's weaponizing that interdependence and those relationships with allies."