{"id":1382440,"date":"2026-04-15T17:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/europe-is-developing-a-backup-plan-what-will-happen-after-the-us-leaves-nato\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:18:01","slug":"europe-is-developing-a-backup-plan-what-will-happen-after-the-us-leaves-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/europe-is-developing-a-backup-plan-what-will-happen-after-the-us-leaves-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is developing a backup plan: what will happen after the US leaves NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe is developing a backup plan to protect the region with existing NATO troops in the event of the US withdrawal from the alliance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This<\/span> is stated<\/span><\/a> in the WSJ article.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials are currently working on plans called a \u201cEuropean NATO.\u201d Among the main tasks are to involve more Europeans in the alliance\u2019s command functions and to supplement American resources with their own.<\/span><\/p>\n

In developing plans in the event of a US withdrawal from NATO, Europe wants to maintain Russia’s deterrence potential, operational continuity, and nuclear reliability without American assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plans were first mentioned last year when the US president threatened to take Greenland. However, they have gained more relevance amid statements that the US will review its membership in the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another important moment was the change in the views of the German leadership. For a long time, Berlin, where American nuclear weapons are located, did not question the role of the United States in NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, last year, Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted that Trump had abandoned Ukraine, confusing the victim with the perpetrator.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the interlocutors, Germany’s change of position helped to achieve agreement among a number of countries – Great Britain, France, Poland, the Nordic countries and Canada. After that, NATO members moved on to planning important military issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

European countries are seeking to take over most of the responsibilities, including logistics, intelligence, command, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, they want to catch up with the United States in areas where they are lagging behind. These include anti-submarine warfare, space and reconnaissance capabilities, intelligence, and nuclear deterrence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe burden shift from the US to Europe is already happening and will continue\u2026 as part of the US defense and national security strategy,\u201d said Finnish President Alexander Stubb.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that after the end of the war in Iran, the US would review its membership in the North Atlantic Alliance<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Recall that Trump may begin the official process of the United States’ withdrawal from NATO<\/a> . This decision is seen not only as a threat to the solidarity of the allies, but also as an element of an internal electoral strategy to strengthen ratings.<\/p>\n

By the way, former US special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg stated the possible need to create alternative military alliances to replace NATO<\/a> . He also suggested the possibility of the US invoking Article 13 of the Alliance to prepare for withdrawal.<\/p>\n

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Europe is developing a backup plan to protect the region with existing NATO troops in the event of the US withdrawal from the alliance. This is stated in the WSJ article. Officials are currently working on plans called a \u201cEuropean NATO.\u201d Among the main tasks are to involve more Europeans in the alliance\u2019s command functions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1251213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1382440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}