Trump’s Push to End the Ukraine War Is Sowing Fresh Fear About NATO’s Future

Putin knows he can’t defeat NATO in a head-on fight...[so] his only hope is to defeat it politically by undermining its cohesiveness, which he tries to do all the time, said Ed Arnold, a former British army infantry officer who specializes in European security analysis for the RUSI think tank. The U.S.’s latest peace plan would go a long way toward dividing NATO...“That would create huge divisions within the trans-Atlantic partnership,” Arnold said. “Politically, Russia is on the cusp of winning."