{"id":2503,"date":"2025-11-10T09:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:20:49","slug":"nato-would-have-ceased-to-exist-850-%ce%bc-%ce%bc-on-tuesday-october-21-2025%c2%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNATO would have ceased to exist,\u201d 8:50 \u03bc.\u03bc. on Tuesday, October 21, 2025\u00b9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u03bd\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7 \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At a contentious 2018 NATO meeting, President Trump threatened to walk out over allies not paying more for their defence. If he had, and had said he would no longer defend NATO allies, \u201cNATO would have ceased to exist,\u201d @jensstoltenberg tells me.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He takes me behind the scenes of that pivotal moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" data-id=\"2505\" src=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026493-1-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026493-1-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026493-1-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026493-1-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026493-1-1536x716.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026493-1-2048x955.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" data-id=\"2507\" src=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026490-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026490-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026490-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026490-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026490-1536x716.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026490-2048x955.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" data-id=\"2506\" src=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026494-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026494-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026494-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026494-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026494-1536x716.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000026494-2048x955.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TSZtJPbNGj\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/TSZtJPbNGj<\/a><br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/amanpour\/status\/1980693218032242874?t=IDjUi-bL7HcVaQT3jAs98g&amp;s=03\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/amanpour\/status\/1980693218032242874?t=IDjUi-bL7HcVaQT3jAs98g&amp;s=03<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u03bd\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3\u03b7 \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) At a contentious 2018 NATO meeting, President Trump threatened to walk out over allies not paying more for their defence. If he had, and had said he would no longer defend NATO allies, \u201cNATO would have ceased to exist,\u201d @jensstoltenberg tells me.&nbsp; He takes me behind the scenes of that pivotal moment. https:\/\/t.co\/TSZtJPbNGj(https:\/\/x.com\/amanpour\/status\/1980693218032242874?t=IDjUi-bL7HcVaQT3jAs98g&amp;s=03)&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}