Pres. Trump is in London to attend a NATO leaders meeting that is designed to showcase the continued strength of the alliance 70 years after its establishment. ABC News' KarenTravers has the latest.
President Donald Trump arrived in London on Monday evening to attend a NATO leaders meeting that is designed to showcase the continued strength of the alliance 70 years after its establishment. But the gathering will also put the political strains within the alliance on public display.
Just last week, it was announced that the U.S. is reducing its contribution toward NATO's operational budget from 22% to 16%. A NATO official portrayed the move as a demonstration of the allies' commitment to the alliance rather than a sign of decreased U.S. commitment. But while the administration contends the president has only made NATO stronger, Macron made headlines last month with his warning of a"brain death" within NATO because of reduced U.S. reliability within the structure of the alliance.
Heather Conley, the director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said it seems as if Trump and Macron are"trying to out-disrupt the other." "They have a great deal of respect for each other," said a senior administration official."They have different priorities for the alliance. The president wants to make it stronger and the burden sharing more equitable. I think President Macron is still kind of working out what he wants out of the group. But I think they have a healthy level of respect for each other. That will come out in their bilateral conversation.
In addition to its actions in Syria, Turkey's increasingly close ties with Russia and its purchase of a Russian missile defense system remains a source of widespread concern within the alliance. A senior administration official said the U.S. has already been"blunt" with Turkey on the issue of the Russian S-400s, but so far the administration has stopped short of sanctioning Turkey over acquiring the Russian equipment, despite legislation that mandates the administration to do so.
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