European Security Policy

Congressman Wants US to Leave NATO: “Relic”

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has proposed a proposal for the US to leave NATO. On X, he calls the defense alliance a “Cold War relic.”

He wants the money going to NATO to protect the US and not “socialist countries.” Massie believes the US should “stop being the world’s comfort blanket” and accuses Europe of “refusing to pay” for its own security.

The bill is being presented a few days after Donald Trump presented a new security strategy that focuses more on the US’s neighbors than countries like Russia and China.

Danish intelligence chief: US our closest ally

The US remains Denmark’s closest ally. This is what the head of the military intelligence service FE, Thomas Ahrenkiel, told DR after the high-profile report in which the US is mentioned as a threat to Denmark.

According to Ahrenkiel, the US, through its involvement in NATO, its presence in Europe and its nuclear umbrella, remains the guarantor of security in Europe. Ahrenkiel calls the fact that the US is also mentioned in connection with threat images in the report “a dilemma that Denmark and other European countries are now facing”.

– On the one hand, we are completely dependent on American contributions to Europe's security. On the other hand, we are faced with a USA that looks after its own interests to a greater extent, that has a different worldview than it may have had before and that uses other means to achieve its goals, he says.

Danish expert: It hurts deep to the soul to read the report

That the USA is now mentioned as a threat in the Danish security service's threat analysis is a knockout blow to the entire worldview that has prevailed since the Cold War. This is what Berlingskes' security policy analyst Kristian Mouritzen tells his own newspaper.

– It hurts deep to the soul to read the report, he says.

He points out that the USA is not singled out as a threat on par with Russia but as "a country that does not wish us well".

According to Mouritzen, the report shows that Europe is facing completely new security policy challenges when the USA can no longer be trusted.

– It is not easy because Europe remains heavily dependent on the US and will be for at least ten years, he says.