An alliance is a partnership of equals under conditions of mutual respect.
An organisation in which the strongest dictates to the weaker partners is no alliance.
NATO risks being reduced, by the manbaby in the White House, to a satrapy.
If he flounces out, so be it. #NATO will continue in being without him, restored to a partnership of equals, who remain, by alliance, sufficiently strong for purpose.
NATO members must not permit themselves to be blackmailed into joining Trump's war.
The big problem with this (which I agree with in principle) is that the rest of NATO have spent their (reduced) defence money on a completely unconnected range of weaponry, except where they have brought US weapons and are dependant on the US for maintenance or supplies !
Including in the case of the UK the Nuclear Weapons we are trying to suggest are on a par with the completely independent French one.
Trump has even openly talked about the ability to turn off aspects of those weapons!
For example it was only a previous presidential decision by Clinton that allowed civilians to access "un-degraded" positional data.
Virtually irreplaceable for targetting etc the US controls this.
Hopefully the European version Galileo can be used by these US built systems (though i note the Wikipedia page suggests it's still being upgraded this year).
Simon Flett
CockneyLaurie