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The push by Washington, which also wants to scale down a peacekeeping operation in Kosovo, has become known internally as a “return to factory settings,” four diplomats told POLITICO.

The U.S. under Donald Trump is pushing NATO to slash many of its foreign activities including ending a key alliance mission in Iraq, four NATO diplomats told POLITICO.

The U.S. has also in recent months lobbied to scale down NATO’s peacekeeping operation in Kosovo and keep Ukraine and Indo-Pacific allies from formally participating in the alliance’s July annual summit in Ankara.

The effort reflects a White House drive to treat NATO as a strictly Euroatlantic defense pact and roll back decades of expansion into crisis management, global partnerships and values-driven initiatives that have long irritated the U.S. president and his MAGA base.

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[-] aviationeast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a good opportunity to increase the amount of exercises in Greenland just withou t the US being included.

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

We could also do some war games under the premise that a new imperial power is on the rise, threatening close neighbors. For some reason, this rival power has a lot of the same equipment as we do.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

The Not American Treaty Organisation has a very similar logo. Its very easy to get the two mixed up.

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