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Saudi Arabia: A World without NATO… What Would It Look Like?

Jinghong Chen - April 19, 2026. Published in Asharq Al-Awsat

European autonomy - military, technological, economic, and financial - is beginning to take shape as Europe hedges against current and future fluctuations in [U.S.] policy.

Austria: The Ruins of Trump’s Genocide Diplomacy

Peter Carioca - April 16, 2026. Published in Der Standard

He is the most unworthy, unfit, and above all, most dangerous president the United States has ever had.

Spain: The Infuriating Flippancy of Donald Trump

Juliet Bristow - April 13, 2026. Published in El País

Whoever was hoping for some clarity about the plan going forward will have realized that there is no plan.

Germany: Rutte Visits White House: Trump Is Angry Again

Fiona Garratt - April 12, 2026. Published in Die Tageszeitung

U.S. fundamental interest in NATO has remained unchanged since its founding in 1949 — even under Donald Trump.

Saudi Arabia: US and Europe: A Partnership of Anxiety

Houssam Alsabbagh - April 5, 2026. Published in Asharq Al-Awsat

Are we ... witnessing a divorce between ... two allies, or are we seeing a reshuffling of the deck?

Germany: Trump Is Already Halfway Gone from NATO

Anna Wright - April 3, 2026. Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Vladimir Putin will be taking careful note of this.

Spain: Trump Is Now More Alone Than Ever: The Republican Is Told ‘No’ from NATO, as MAGA Support Begins To Waver

Robin Koerner - April 2, 2026. Published in laSexta

[E]ven his own MAGA followers have started to abandon him.

Germany: Europe Must Not Allow Itself To Be Drawn into Trump’s War

Kirsty Low - March 27, 2026. Published in Frankfurter Rundschau

Sending a few European warships wouldn’t rescue the U.S. from the precarious position the advice-ignoring egomaniac Trump has put it in.

Poland: Can Donald Trump Really Pull the US out of NATO?*

Danuta Kowalska - March 21, 2026. Published in Rzeczpospolita

Trump getting rid of this instrument would be illogical because it would undermine the entire existing alliance agreement.

Taiwan: Killing the Chicken No Longer Scares the Monkey.* Trump’s Authority Is Waning

Jennifer Sampson - March 12, 2026. Published in UDN

This loss of authority is Trump’s real problem.

Egypt: Strained Alliances and the Transformation of Global Order

Jinghong Chen - February 9, 2026. Published in Ahram Online

The rise of transactional unilateral diplomacy—most visibly associated with U.S. President Donald Trump—has exposed structural vulnerabilities in the alliance system.

France: Enough, Mr. Trump! And If You Want To Leave NATO, Go Ahead!

Max Woodman - February 8, 2026. Published in La Tribune

A 'global hooligan,' the German newspaper Die Zeit recently described him.

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