Europe’s future after Trump leaves Nato

By Edward Lucas, 

London Published: 7 April 2026 13:23

In less than three months, Nato delegations will be packing for the alliance’s summit in Ankara. 

The agenda is empty, and the attendance of the most important guest, US president Donald Trump, is unclear. European allies will have time aplenty to ponder their alarmingly short list of security options.

Trump’s decades-old dissatisfaction with Nato has boiled over as its member states steer clear of his botched war in the Gulf. 

Washington’s ostensible allies are “cowards” who face a “very bad future” for their “very foolish mistake,” he said, among other insults in recent days.

Though he would need Congressional approval to withdraw formally from the alliance, he says the move is “beyond reconsideration,” adding “I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way”.

Fear, but not panic, in Europe, after Trump threat to leave Nato

Performative disdain is, of course, nothing new in the trans-Atlantic alliance.

For decades, Americans have complained that Europeans spent too little and showed up late or ineffectively. For their part, Europeans have long shuddered at American heavy-handedness or inattention.

But the tone has changed. Finnish president Alexander Stubb, the continent’s top Trump-whisperer, said that US foreign policy has changed fundamentally. His message to allies: “Salvage what you can.” 

That is a sharp change of tone; last year, Stubb downplayed the dangers of a trans-Atlantic rift, saying that the alliance could be preserved through calm and reasoned engagement with Washington.

Recent attacks on NATO by President Donald Trump continue to deliver Headlines that are showing a divide between the USA and Europe that will see them separate from NATO and this is based on Bible Prophecy.  But its surprising how fast things are changing and few if any would have seen this coming.

What is also interesting is the EU is saying they need to Re-Arm and President Emmanual Macron says that the EU needs hundreds of billions in defense spending.

President Macron is also on record saying he wants to bring Russia back to the negotiating table and begin dialogue on some form of a Security Pact with Russia, NATO’s existence in its current form will be an issue even more so now.

The Bible has long revealed that Russia and an EU Army will enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East.  Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”.  Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days.  So Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe.  It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.

Yet again we see in Todays News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible. 

See this article to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible.

See this article for more on this subject: EUROPE WITHOUT AMERICA