During a recent bilateral meeting at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump pouted when a reporter explained that Spain can't be kicked out of NATO under current treaty rules.

For all his breathless talk of "closing airspace," the West still tiptoes around Russian air probes targeting NATO while Trump talks tough in America’s backyard—against a pariah state that, unlike Moscow, can’t shoot back. Reactions to Trump’s stance on Venezuela have been swift.

The U.S.’s latest efforts to end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia have jolted the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Trump’s hardball tactics have extorted greater allied cooperation and reasserted U.S. domination over the organization.

Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, told the Berlin Security Conference earlier this month that he hoped a German would become Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), overseeing the alliance’s military activities in Europe, a role that has been held by an American since NATO’s inception.

President Donald Trump said he would formally designate Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally in a further strengthening of ties between the two countries, capping a day of dealmaking between the US leader and the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

BRUSSELS - However Donald Trump’s latest push to end the war in Ukraine pans out, Europe fears the prospect of a deal – sooner or later – that will not punish or weaken Russia as its leaders had hoped, placing the continent’s security in greater jeopardy.

President Trump said Tuesday he will designate Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally, marking a step up in defense ties between the U.S. and the Gulf monarchy.

Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, will force the warring parties any closer to a resolution in the grinding, nearly four-year-long conflict. Yet even if negotiators can broker a welcome deal to stop the current fighting,