Global Geopolitical Series: NATO summit failure could pave way for U.S. auto-tariffs

President Trump has arrived in Brussels and at his meeting with North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) leaders and at his first meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Trump made it clear that he is looking for a grand reform within NATO, where all the member countries contribute 2 percent of their GDP towards military spending and clear past dues.

In his Twitter spat President Trump has made his strategy clear; the United States would no longer accept an arrangement where the United States bears the majority of the cost of NATO at a time when the EU is enjoying a $151 billion surplus trade balance (goods) with the United States, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKOFqFqiBdM  Before leaving for Brussels, President Trump made it clear that he expects the talks to be difficult in such an extent that a meeting with Russian President Putin would be an easier one. He made it clear many a time since his inauguration that he believes that the so-called allies are ripping the U.S. more than its traditional enemies.

If all the parties fail to reach a grand agreement over this two-day meeting or at least create a framework in resolving their differences, the threatened U.S. tariffs of 20-25 percent on all auto imports from the EU would fasten.