The United States is considering pulling back from NATO to focus more on the threat of China.  

According to reports, senior US defense officials have privately informed European allies that the United States will step back from its unofficial role as NATO’s primary conventional defense provider beyond 2027.  

European senior defense officials received a warning from their Pentagon counterparts that the United States is prioritizing the Indo-Pacific area of operations and a potential clash with China there, instead of operations in Europe and the Russian threat.  

The US officials reportedly said that the US military “cannot fight two wars at once” and will need to concentrate its forces where the stakes are higher.  

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