Arya News - Donald Trump could pursue more aggressive policies toward NATO and the EU following the Republicans` midterm loss, Paolo Raffone, strategic analyst and director of the CIPI Foundation in Brussels, told Sputnik.
"Now Trump has nothing to lose," Raffone emphasized, suggesting that the president could use executive orders to bypass Congress and push ahead with his political agenda.Raffone also questioned Europe"s willingness to assume greater responsibility for its own defense."Europeans celebrate Trump"s defeat, but they have no common strategy, economic and military capacity to replace the US," he noted.The analyst highlighted three obstacles hobbling the EU: non-standardized weapons, conflicting national priorities, and public resistance to more military spending as inflation bites and social benefits shrink.