{"id":112939,"date":"2021-02-15T18:58:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=112939"},"modified":"2021-02-15T18:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:58:25","slug":"in-nato-debut-bidens-pentagon-aims-to-rebuild-trust-damaged-by-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/in-nato-debut-bidens-pentagon-aims-to-rebuild-trust-damaged-by-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"In NATO debut, Biden's Pentagon aims to rebuild trust damaged by Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON\/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – President Joe Biden\u2019s administration will use a NATO defense gathering this week to begin what is expected to be a years-long effort to rebuild trust with European allies shaken by Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to Defense Department personnel during a visit to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 10, 2021. REUTERS\/Carlos Barria\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

U.S. officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity ahead of the event, said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would emphasize U.S. commitment and appreciation for the trans-Atlantic alliance after Trump\u2019s open hostility.<\/p>\n

The NATO defense ministers’ meeting, to be held virtually on Feb. 17-18 here, is the first major European event since Biden’s swearing-in on Jan. 20. Biden will deliver remarks at a virtual gathering of the Munich security forum here on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n

After years of Trump\u2019s public ridiculing of NATO allies such as Germany who failed to reach defense spending targets, Biden\u2019s Pentagon will, without abandoning those targets, focus on progress made toward bolstering NATO\u2019s collective defense, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust is something that can\u2019t be built overnight, is something that takes time. It takes more than words. It takes action,\u201d said a U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the administration\u2019s objectives for the NATO meeting.<\/p>\n

To underscore Biden’s views on NATO, the White House even took the rare step of releasing a video youtu.be\/o9E1S3UPRFY on Jan. 27 of the U.S. president’s first conversation with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in which he used the word “sacred” to describe the U.S. commitment to collective defense.<\/p>\n

Still, Biden could face an uphill battle in Europe, which saw Washington upend its commitments under Trump, including pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s portrayal of NATO as an organization in crisis, dragged down by laggard members, has left many European allies feeling worn down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an exhaustion in European security circles from Trump and his unpredictability,\u201d said a European NATO diplomat.<\/p>

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\u201cWe\u2019ve just spent four years not talking to each other and the world is very different from four years ago. Biden needs to do a big repair job in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Portugal\u2019s Defence Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho, underscoring wariness about the United States, told the European Parliament on Jan. 28 that the Trump years were an \u201cideological experiment\u201d that had \u201cdevastating effects in terms of the credibility of the United States and its strength internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deadly Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol in which pro-Trump followers tried to keep him in power, has also done severe damage to America\u2019s global image as a beacon of democracy, political analysts said.<\/p>\n

RELIABLE ALLY?<\/h2>\n

One of Biden\u2019s biggest challenges will be convincing allies there won\u2019t be a return to another Trump era, or something akin to it, perhaps four or eight years down the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a legitimate fear and a legitimate concern,\u201d said Rachel Rizzo, an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security focusing on European security and NATO.<\/p>\n

She added it will be a \u201cslow process\u201d to prove the United States can be a reliable ally.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron has gone so far as to say Europe needs its own sovereign defense strategy, independent of the United States here. Still, eastern European allies such as Poland \u2013 fearful of Russia – say European defense plans should only complement NATO, not replace it.<\/p>\n

The NATO defense ministerial is expected to broach a range of issues, including efforts to end the two-decade-old war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The ministerial is also expected to include discussion of the so-called \u201c2 percent target\u201d which requires NATO members spend 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense by 2024.<\/p>\n

Germany, Italy and Spain will all miss the 2024 target, according to initial projections released by NATO in October. Germany has pledged to reach the NATO spending target by 2031, and its failure angered Trump, who ordered a pullout of some 12,000 troops from Germany, declaring: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be the suckers any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about the target, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said he expected Austin to emphasize that many allies were meeting the target and others were \u201cstriving to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019ll see a supportive message from the secretary about how relevant NATO is,\u201d said Kirby, a retired Navy admiral.<\/p>\n

Another U.S. official said that even with economic stress on budgets because of COVID-19, the expectation was still for allies to hit 2 percent of their GDP, with Washington likely to make the argument that the health crisis should not be allowed to turn into a security crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you\u2019ll hear a substantially different tone and a lot more emphasis on different capabilities,\u201d the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t be instrumentalized as a political weapon to beat up allies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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