The real message from Ankara is that the West is already preparing for the postwar era. In this regular column for Új Szó, Balázs Jarábik argues that the NATO taking shape will not be an autonomous “European NATO,” but an alliance transformed according to the logic of the Trump era.
European allies have accepted substantially higher defense spending, shifting the debate from whether Europe should spend more to how quickly it can translate money into military capability. Yet greater European financing does not necessarily mean greater European strategic autonomy. The United States is likely to retain the alliance’s political and military leadership, even as Europeans assume a much larger share of its costs.
The emerging NATO will therefore be more European in its financing, more American in its leadership—and more Ukrainian in the way it prepares to fight. Ukraine’s battlefield experience, particularly in drones, technological adaptation and high-intensity warfare, is increasingly shaping how the alliance thinks about its own future.
Full op-ed (in Hungarian) https://ujszo.com/velemeny/ankara-a-trump-korszak-nato-ja