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Anders Puck Nielsen Gets It: NATO Can’t Rely on Trump. His Removal Is Key

  • Writer: john raymond
    john raymond
  • Jun 23
  • 2 min read

There is a clarity to Anders Puck Nielsen’s analysis that is absent from nearly every official NATO statement since Trump’s return to power. While NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte issues hollow platitudes and pretends the alliance can continue business as usual with a Kremlin-compromised U.S. president at its helm, Nielsen dares to say the quiet part out loud: NATO cannot count on the United States as long as Donald Trump is in power.


This isn’t a provocative opinion—it’s the unavoidable consequence of facts on the ground. And it demands a blunt conclusion: until Trump is removed from office, no other NATO initiative will secure the alliance. Nothing else matters.


Rutte recently parroted Trump’s claims that the Iran strikes were legal, thereby undermining both congressional oversight and international norms. By doing so, Rutte reinforced Trump’s lawless posture and signaled to member states that autocracy, not collective rule-of-law, is now the organizing logic of the transatlantic relationship. This isn’t leadership—it’s appeasement in the face of constitutional collapse.


Rutte may think he is threading a needle between diplomacy and political survival, but in truth he is sleepwalking the alliance toward strategic irrelevance.


By contrast, Nielsen understands that NATO’s crisis is not primarily one of military readiness or spending gaps. It is a crisis of cohesion and trust—a recognition that Trump’s loyalty is not to NATO, nor even to the United States, but to Vladimir Putin.


From his tariffs on allies, to his open admiration of autocrats, to his attempts to extort Ukraine and his capitulation to Putin at Helsinki, Trump has shown again and again that his project is to fracture the West. He is not defending the alliance; he is dismantling it.


Nielsen cuts through the fog: the threat to Europe is not an invading Russian army, but the implosion of the postwar order under the weight of Western cowardice and denial. He states plainly what Rutte will not—that without alliance unity, NATO becomes a paper shield. And Trump is not merely a threat to that unity—he is the instrument of its destruction.


So let us not mince words. There can be no “reset,” no “rebalancing,” no “strategic ambiguity” when the leader of the most powerful NATO state is actively undermining the alliance from within. The only path forward is through his removal—either by electoral defeat, constitutional accountability, or impeachment for the very war crimes Rutte insists on ignoring.


The rot cannot be managed. It must be cut out. Only then can NATO reassert its principles and face the challenges ahead with clarity and resolve.


Anders Puck Nielsen sees this. Mark Rutte, tragically, does not.




 
 
 

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