Türkiye’s role in NATO grows amid changing US-Europe dynamics

We won't leave Ukraine alone and decide things over their heads,

he said Friday at his last major campaign event before weekend elections

He doesn't have to make a deal, because if he wanted, he'd get the whole country,

Trump said

That's, I think, the fundamental reason Europeans only trust the scheme for military alignment and integration if the U.S. is a part of the scheme,

Biscop said

The real question is whether an agreement between the United States and Russia on Ukraine will be to the detriment of Europeans' security interests, which is what we fear today,

Maulny said

We have some extreme right parties already in government, and it makes it sometimes very difficult to reach consensus in the EU,

Biscop said

Yes, there is now greater urgency, but there should have been urgency since President Trump's first term,

Posen said

They will need to align their defense planning and maybe to some extent, integrate their capabilities, but they are not willing to do that in a scheme that does not include the United States,

Biscop, who has also lectured for years on European defense strategy, told Newsweek

The leadership, political cooperation, and management tasks are demanding,

Barry Posen, political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has written extensively about U.S.-European security relations, told Newsweek

Some probably believe that they can manage President Trump with gifts and flattery,

Posen added

You get the distinct feeling that you have a president who is anti-EU, who is ideologically anti-EU,

he added

Europeans are gradually becoming aware of their solitude,

he added

Some do not wish to displease Donald Trump for the moment, considering that the United States is a member of NATO, bound by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and its mutual assistance clause, and that we should not displease him either,

he said

But whether you are in one camp or the other has no impact on the fact that both camps believe that Europeans should increase their defense budgets in order to face current European security challenges,

he said

No, I have not decided to send troops to Ukraine tomorrow. What we are considering is sending forces to guarantee peace once it has been negotiated,

he said during an online conversation with users on his social media

Given U.S. threats to draw down its forces stationed in Europe, Türkiye's contributions will be increasingly vital for the security and stability of the continent."

Senior analyst Amanda Paul from the European Policy Centre think tank emphasized

The new U.S. administration is trying to weaken European countries, including Türkiye."

Samuel Doveri Vesterbye, director of the Brussels-based European Neighbourhood Council, said

I honestly think that the EU this week is a bit in shock,

Koert Debeuf, a professor of international relations at the Brussels School of Governance and a former advisor to the Belgian prime minister, said ... in reference to the events at the Munich Security Conference

Washington's drastic policy shifts serve as an incentive for EU countries to cooperate more, as well as for new strategic partners like Türkiye and the U.K. to play a bigger role. This applies both to Ukraine, as well as in the context of European procurement and production,

the council director said

Türkiye has become even more important for NATO since Washington has shown less interest in the European security architecture. Threats are emanating from the Black Sea, from the Mediterranean, and hybridity in ways that would have been unimaginable decades ago."

He added

It continues to play an important role, along with other allies, in shoring up European security amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

She said