For decades, Washington asked Europeans to take the threat from Russia seriously. Today it is asking something harder: to look beyond Europe.
The Trump administration increasingly sees America’s security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East, from Iran’s network of proxies and the attacks on Red Sea shipping to China above all. At his confirmation hearing as secretary of state in January 2025, Marco Rubio called the Chinese Communist Party “the most potent and dangerous near-peer adversary this nation has ever confronted.” Washington wants allies to carry more of Europe’s conventional defense and to understand why American attention is being pulled elsewhere. That is the logic behind what has come to be called NATO 3.0.
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