German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that if the next US president is a politician moving away from Europe, European countries will face challenges they could not even imagine. He expressed this view in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. TASS.
“If the worst-case scenario comes and there is a president in the White House who distances himself from Europe and NATO, then we will face challenges that are no longer unimaginable,” Pistorius said.
At the same time, the head of the German defense ministry believes that even an American leader loyal to Europe will have to shift his attention to the Indo-Pacific region, which means he has to show more responsibility for Europe. Security and defense of the region.
According to the minister, in such a scenario, Europeans would have to reimburse for their part the US contribution beyond what is currently being done, and this will become a decades-long task.
Formerly a member of the OSCE Russian delegation statedThat the security situation in Europe is worse than at the height of the Cold War.