NATO Minister Issues Warning After Donald Trump Victory [Video]

Europe “urgently needs to take more responsibility” for its own security, Poland’s foreign minister has said, after Donald Trump clinched victory in the U.S. elections to return to the Oval Office early next year.

“Europe urgently needs to take more responsibility for its security,” Radoslaw Sikorski said on Wednesday. “The winds of history are blowing ever more strongly. Poland’s leadership will rise to the occasion.”

Many countries in Europe are part of the European Union or NATO, and sometimes both. NATO has been particularly important for decades as a defensive alliance, although the U.S. has historically provided many expensive military capabilities for its European members, as well as the alliance’s main nuclear deterrent.

Former president and current president-elect Trump has repeatedly criticized the alliance and had discussed withdrawing the United States from NATO while in office, senior administration officials told The New York Times in 2019.