Why There Seems to Be No Sense in Trump’s Proposal to Turn NATO Into NATO-ME

On 8 January

On 8 January, Donald Trump announced that he would ask NATO to increase its involvement in “the Middle East process” during his address to the nation. International observers have weighed up whether Trump’s “NATO-ME” initiative is what the region and the bloc really need.

Donald Trump’s statement with regard to expanding NATO’s role in the Middle East came on the heels of the Iranian retaliatory ballistic missile strike on Iraqi military bases housing US troops in the aftermath of the extraterritorial targeted assassination of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by the US.

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