{"id":1004001,"date":"2026-06-04T03:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1004001\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:29:35","slug":"u-s-tells-europe-canada-to-boost-nato-air-and-naval-forces-as-washington-steps-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1004001\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. tells Europe, Canada to boost NATO air and naval forces as Washington steps back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS\/BERLIN \u2013 The U.S. expects European NATO allies and Canada to swiftly increase the number of manned and unmanned aircraft and ships they contribute to the alliance\u2019s defense plans as Washington steps back in these areas, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement \u200bby U.S. Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO\u2019s top commander and the head of U.S. forces in Europe, followed \u200ca decision \u200cby the Trump administration to shrink the pool of U.S. military capabilities available to NATO \u200bin a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO and told its European members they will have to take over primary responsibility for the conventional defense of the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS\/BERLIN \u2013 The U.S. expects European NATO allies and Canada to swiftly increase the number of manned and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1004002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[943,473,32,2000,299,5187,2821,12959,1017],"class_list":["post-1004001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-canada","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-nato","tag-republicans","tag-u-s"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116689722793624946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}