What the future holds for Ukraine and NATO under a Trump administration
President Biden’s administration has donated more than 3 million 155mm rounds to Kyiv. (Photo: US Army)
Although Trump’s geopolitics policy for Europe remains unclear, defence analysts from the US and Europe predict how his incoming administration would attempt to handle critical issues on the continent.
A future Donald Trump administration will have a profound impact on geopolitics and defence worldwide. It is not crystal clear, however, how he will handle the conflict in Ukraine or US relations with NATO member states.
Philippe Dickinson, deputy director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security of the US-based think tank Atlantic Council, remarked that “anyone claiming to know definitively” what Trump’s policy will be “should be treated with significant scepticism”.
“Trump’s diplomatic approach is to always keep others – friend and foe alike – off balance,” Dickinson noted. “It is to make a virtue
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