While the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump merely offers hints about the Oval Office occupant for 2025, Europe, Canada, Korea, and Russia are already certain of the outcome.
Knewz.com has learned that NATO, Germany, Canada, and Turkish decision-makers in the country’s capital Ankara, are putting measures in place to deal with the possibility of Trump winning the election.
The upcoming NATO anniversary in Brussels, which would have typically centered on the war in Ukraine, is expected to prioritize discussions on the looming Trump administration instead.
Reports have since telegraphed mixed sentiments from various European thought leaders including NATO head, Jens Stoltenberg.
When grilled by the press on Friday, July 5, he sidestepped the questions regarding Biden’s health and by extension, what it spells for NATO and the war in Ukraine.
“What I can do, and NATO can do, is that we can focus on the substance of NATO. And that's exactly what we'll do,” he told the press.
Notably, the military organization’s efforts to lock in long-term support for the war in Ukraine (lest Trump come to power and put an end to Biden’s stream of handouts) have also been documented.
Turkey, on the other hand, is concerned about potential policy changes in Syria should the White House become conservative again, and has thus resorted to reviewing a distilled compilation of conservative and right-wing policy ideas named Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
South Korea also betrayed the same concerns when it tried to prematurely renew a deal with America to hold onto the 28,000 troops stationed in its country.
Back in the United States, various secret sitdowns between German and Canadian officials, and conservative power brokers, have been reported.
The subject matter of these meetings allegedly spread to closed-door working breakfasts comprising various European ambassadors in Washington.
It was during one of these gatherings, in a brainstorming session on how to prepare for the Republican front-runner, that an unnamed envoy posed the questions:
“Can we truly prepare for Trump?”
“Or do we rather have to wait and see what the new reality would look like?” per Politico
A key aspect of Trump’s Europe policies while he was in office was that he wanted his NATO allies to shell out more capital on their defense. To demonstrate his resolve he even threatened to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.
Be this as it may, he recently claimed that he was capable of ending the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
One prospective strategy to achieve this was to present Russia with an ultimatum: withdraw, or face a deluge of American weapons sent to Ukraine.
However indirectly, Russia has since acknowledged the likelihood of Trump returning to office.
During a meeting with the press, Vladimir Putin stated: “The fact that Mr Trump, as a presidential candidate, declares that he is ready and wants to stop the war in Ukraine, we take this completely seriously.”
