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Daalder, a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, told DW that several factors have brought NATO to this low point. It's not just the insults Trump flings at the alliance and its European members, to which they've become quite accustomed. Trump repeated his view on Monday that NATO is a "paper tiger" that won't support the US in its war against Iran.

Nor, the former ambassador said, is it even Trump's repeated threats to withdraw from NATO, which is accompanied by the more practical concern that he would be unwilling to participate in collective defense if another ally were attacked, the guarantee pledged by NATO's Article 5.

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