2024-12-16
22 分钟Donald Trump's return to the White House is seen as a potential threat to European security. Some believe he could abandon the transatlantic military alliance Nato - but the organisation's new secretary general Mark Rutte seems convinced he will be persuaded to stay. On this episode of The Global Story, Katya Adler speaks with the BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale about what impact losing the alliance’s biggest financial backer would have on the war in Ukraine - and the reasons why the incoming US President might be convinced to remain in Nato. Producers: Alice Aylett Roberts, Laurie Kalus and Eleanor Sly Sound engineer: Philip Bull Assistant editor: Sergi Forcada Freixas Senior news editor: Sara Wadeson
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Hello, I'm Katya Adler from the BBC World Service.
This is the global story.
The re election of Donald Trump marks what's perhaps the most uncertain moment in the history of the NATO military alliance.
Well, that is since the last time he was president.
But that was before large scale warfare returned to Europe with Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.
Aided military voluntarily and otherwise by North Korea, Iran and China.
NATO is a transatlantic military alliance and it's largely funded by the United States.
But America first.
Donald Trump thinks it's a very bad deal.
NATO was busted until I came along.
I said, everybody's going to pay.
They said, well, if we don't pay, are you still going to protect us?
I said, absolutely not.
With Ukraine on the back foot against Moscow and European security in jeopardy, NATO has got a new chief, Mark Rutter, who's been dubbed the Trump Whisperer.