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What NATO has always provided to the United States, as it has to other allies is greater international legitimacy. Obviously NATO's obituary has been written many times during its history....there is serious concern about what these rhetorical attacks from President Trump mean for the solidity of the alliance and the credibility of its deterrence."

London is far safer that many cities across the US but what is less well known is that when it comes to violent crime London in safer than Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels on a per capita bases so it's bad reputation is often unfair ... There have been some major crackdowns on phone snatching, which have been successful, but what you won't see in the details is that a lot of the officers working on those cases would ordinarily be working in drug trafficking, knife crime investigations teams, and so that resource is being pulled from elsewhere."

Europe should certainly be concerned about the damage that has already been done to NATO's political stability and about views on US military reliability. I don't think that those countries should now be cutting off all contact with the US because Trump is transactional and there is still clearly an overlap of interests between Europe and the US. But Europe does have to be thinking about how it can maintain sovereignty over its capabilities, where it can invest to give itself more room to manoeuvre and how Europe thinks about deterrence of threats, both conventional and nuclear, if US support is likely to be uncertain."