Though it has resisted, events have dragged the transatlantic community toward the idea of European countries taking a larger share of the responsibility for security on their continent. In particular, the prospect of a second Donald Trump administration has produced more solicitations for meetings from European diplomats in the last six months than probably my entire career did beforehand. With apologies to Elisabeth Kubler- Ross, they are moving from Anger to Bargaining. There's ample reason for Europe to worry. The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 fatwa advises a new administration not just to "make burden- sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy" but to "transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia." This would be a sea change. TAC's own Sumantra Maitra has authored a much- discussed report about turning the transatlantic alliance into a break- glass- in- case- of- emergency "dormant NATO."
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