Now he's floating withdrawals from Spain and Italy too, not just Germany. The quotes speak for themselves: "Why SHOULDN'T I?" "Italy hasn't been any help... Spain has been HORRIBLE." "When we needed them, they WERE NOT THERE." This is the transactional Trump foreign policy playbook in full effect. Europe isn't a strategic alliance to him, it's a scorecard where countries get graded on usefulness to America. The rhetoric is pure America First performative nationalism, but the actual effect is accelerating Europe's pivot away from relying on the US. He's not wrong that NATO burden-sharing is imbalanced. But weaponizing troop withdrawals as personal leverage over allies who don't grovel hard enough is a recipe for hastening exactly the outcome he claims to want to prevent: a weakened, fragmented Atlantic alliance.