NATO members have committed to defence spending of 5 per cent of GDP by 2035 at meetings in The Hague.
More importantly for NATO members was U.S. President Donald Trump’s commitment to NATO and Article 5 – that is that an attack on one, is an attack on all.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (ROOT) unabashedly praised U.S. strikes in Iran, but there are some serious questions about the effectiveness of U.S. strikes on nuclear sites in Iran.
U.S. President Donald Trump is dismissing media reports indicating that the strikes may not have destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities, possibly setting it back by only months.
The host of CTV’s Power Play, Vassy Kapelos, says the difficulty is that the U.S. administration won’t address direct questions about the effectiveness of the strike.
“All they’ll say, is that that’s totally wrong,” says Kapelos.
“Because if in fact that is true, then there needs to be a re-examination of the capacity the west has to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Because you can debate the response, the Trump involvement, all that kind of thing, but it has been an objective of the United States and the west for decades to stop Iran from being able to have a nuclear weapon.”
“We all have acknowledged in the aggregate that if they had a nuclear weapon, it would be terrible…so if in fact the best we had to stop it, didn’t in fact do the job, I think there are some pretty serious consequences for that.”
