The sign that Starmer is ‘Trump-proofing’ his government

“The idea of Trump-proofing sounds good, but when you look at it, it’s things that Nato should be doing anyway,” says Ed Arnold, a research fellow for European Security at Rusi. “We know where the US is looking, that the US wants to do less in the Euro-Atlantic and more in the Indo-Pacific… that does mean slightly less within Nato.” Arnold points out that, although a Harris presidency may well be the preferred option in the chancelleries of Europe, it would not necessarily spell the end of their problems. US reluctance to play its traditional, post-war role as the world’s policeman arguably began under Barack Obama, who sensed there were limits to American power in an increasingly multipolar world and in the wake of his predecessor’s misadventures in Iraq.