How Congress Can Reassure NATO Without Crossing Trump

President Trump’s recent actions regarding Russia and Ukraine, coupled with Vice President Vance’s Munich speech, have left many traditional transatlanticists at home and abroad worried that the United States is abandoning its traditional NATO allies. Friday’s heated exchange in the Oval Office during which Trump and Vance publicly scolded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky only heightened those concerns.

NATO’s American friends would reassure its European ones if they would pass a congressional resolution reaffirming American commitment to this nation’s treaty obligations and continued deployment of troops within NATO’s European borders.

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Henry Olsen

Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.

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President Trump’s recent actions regarding Russia and Ukraine, coupled with Vice President Vance’s Munich speech, have left many traditional transatlanticists at home and abroad worried that the United States is abandoning its traditional NATO allies. Friday’s heated exchange in the Oval Office during which Trump and Vance publicly scolded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky only heightened those concerns.

NATO’s American friends would reassure its European ones if they would pass a congressional resolution reaffirming American commitment to this nation’s treaty obligations and continued deployment of troops within NATO’s European borders.

About the Author

Henry Olsen

Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.