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Air Force One, which President Trump will arrive on in Britain tomorrow
THERESA MAY is almost doubling the deployment of British troops to Afghanistan following a request from Donald Trump, whose arrival in the country tomorrow is poised to spark mass protests.
Hawkish liberals often voice their concern over the unpredictable Trump, noting his family’s business links to Russian oligarchs and seeing his complaint that Nato’s European members are “taking advantage” of the United States as a veiled threat to withdraw troops from the continent.
That would be no bad thing, of course — the expansion of the US-led alliance to Russia’s border since the end of the cold war breached international commitments made to the Gorbachov government in the 1980s in return for its withdrawal of Soviet forces from those countries.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
In the first half of a two-part article, PETER MERTENS looks at how Nato’s €800 billion ‘Readiness 2030’ plan serves Washington’s pivot to the Pacific, forcing Europeans to dismantle social security and slash pensions to fund it
