Is NATO Facing A Credibility Crisis?

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00:00I like the way that, what Sam said, it's sort of out with the old world, in with the new world.

00:06And there's been warnings that if the U.S. make a move to take Greenland, that could actually spell the end of NATO.

00:14And lots of people have been saying, what is going to happen? This alliance has been in place for 80 years.

00:20I don't know what you think of that.

00:23I'll get to that point, but just to add a bit on what the people of Greenland think,

00:27there was overwhelmingly they did want to be independent from Denmark.

00:31But I think the polls also said that they overwhelmingly did not want to be part of the U.S.

00:35So there's a balance there. But when it comes to NATO, has it lost its power?

00:40This doesn't mean when we're talking about its power, we're not talking about its physical power,

00:44because it still remains one of the unmatched military powers globally.

00:49Here we have some numbers for you, Leanne.

00:51NATO members collectively possess over 3.3 million active duty troops and spend roughly 1.3 trillion annually on defense.

00:59So this accounts for over 55 percent of the global military expenditure.

01:03So when we're talking about a loss of power, we're talking about political power here,

01:08as the U.S. administration is raising these significant questions about Washington's commitment to this alliance.

01:14So officials have recently stated that the U.S. security priorities do lie elsewhere.

01:19They haven't only stated this, they're actually showing it with their ambitions over Greenland.

01:24So this leads to this claim that they are losing power, especially when it comes to the Greenland disagreement.

01:29But I think that NATO is just currently navigating its most significant crisis of credibility as an alliance,

01:38as that has been faced in decades.

01:41So the bloc could break if the U.S. does move on with its ambitions in Greenland.

01:47And Donald Trump did give a glimmer of hope today, though, through Truth Social.

01:52He said that they will always be there for NATO, even though they're not there for the U.S.

01:57The United States给 you authors.

02:02Okay.