Trump's NATO troop remarks have shaken allied veterans

Equivocation from Washington weakens deterrence, emboldens Moscow, and risks persuading soldiers on the ground that NATO no longer carries the saliency or seriousness it once did,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense and security think tank in London. “While the remarks change little for soldiers fighting in Ukraine,” he said, “strategically, they are deeply corrosive.”