Five threats UK military will be watching under a Trump presidency

Matthew Savill, a former senior Ministry of Defence official who is now director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), said: “More than 50 per cent of Ukraine’s support comes from America. If that stops, Europe is in no position to replace that in the short term.” Mr Savill said a “quiet-quitting” approach in which the US withdraws partially from Nato would make the alliance “less imposing” and could lead adversaries to “consider gambling on whether the US is really committed.”