Trump describes NATO as ‘the enemy’ while Starmer does nothing

US President Donald Trump has taken to his social media app ‘Truth Social’, adopting a position entirely at odds with his ostensible Western allies. Trump has now declared that Russia and China are not the enemy. Instead, Washington now deems the enemy to be the UN and NATO.

Considering NATO is a collective defence alliance of all member states, including the US itself, that should set Trump on a collision course with other Western leaders.

Trump shared a post on Truth Social claiming that Russia and China are not the enemy, but NATO is. pic.twitter.com/xTTq3nwHMP

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 20, 2026

Trump and NATO: not getting his way

It isn’t hard to identify the reasons why Trump might be unhappy with NATO and the UN. NATO countries have made it clear that they do not support the potential attempt by Trump to seize Greenland, a territory that belongs to Denmark. By refusing to quietly accept a world run at Washington’s whim, European governments have made themselves targets. Even limited public resistance is met with threats or retaliation, exposing how our dependence is punished rather than respected.

Matters are made worse by Western leaders’ continued refusal to confront war crimes committed by their allies, hollowing out international law entirely. That failure has weakened the protections the law is meant to provide, leaving smaller nations exposed rather than safeguarded.

Trump has even faced calls in his own country to invoke the 25th Amendment in light of his strange, conflicting spree of messages attacking the UN while lavishing himself in praise.

Given Keir Starmer is busy fawning over Trump, it’s been left to Zack Polanski to confront the spinelessness of Western leaders. On X, he shared a video of Stella Creasy arguing that we should attempt to win over the bully and see where it gets us. After all, appeasement was incredibly effective in WWII.

⁉️ Stella Creasy wants to "renew and strengthen our relationship" with Donald Trump in this silly political attack video.

🥀 Is it any surprise her vote share plummeted & the Green Party rose?

💚 We'll take it all the way next time.https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp https://t.co/Gdn0ort2gM

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) January 19, 2026

‘Reliant on American interests’

Yesterday, our own Joe Glenton wrote about the Green Party leader’s views on the US President’s increasingly aggressive behaviour. Diverging from Labour, Polanski is advocating for a review of US military forces on UK territory. He even goes as far as to suggest we should take bold, principled action and kick the war-hungry US out of our country.

Glenton writes:

He said the UK’s security should not be subject to Trump’s mood:

I think it’s pretty worrying that we’ve allowed ourselves to become so reliant on American interests, and that a lot of this depends on if Donald Trump is in a good mood or not.

He called for a full review into US military presence on UK soil:

We should be reviewing US bases on UK soil, and actually looking at a genuine strategic defence review.

It is also worth noting that Polanski doesn’t feel all too favourably about NATO, either. Glenton points out in his recent article:

Polanski has previously been critical of NATO, even suggesting a new alliance was needed. In May 2025 he told Byline Times:

Clearly NATO has got a lot more complex since Donald Trump has become President, and I don’t think anyone should consider him a reliable ally…

I think the age of NATO is now fully over.

Asked by the Guardian if the US-led pact could be reformed, Polanski said:

Donald Trump has so much domination within Nato that I don’t believe it’s possible to reform Nato from within.

Finally, a party leader in UK who does not favour the country remaining a vassal state of the American Empire. https://t.co/fP3luH7KwH

— Graeme Garrard (@GarrardGraeme) January 20, 2026

Polanski instead argues that the Labour government’s lapdog behaviour will ultimately lead to the Green’s gain in popularity. A recent YouGov poll supports that theory, showing very clearly that the majority of the public are far more in line with Polanski’s perspective than with our elected government.

Zack Polanski has said that Britain should expel US forces from the UK if the country seizes Greenland – a proposal 55% of Britons support

Support: 55%
Oppose: 22%

Results link in replies pic.twitter.com/I7NXBN4OO5

— YouGov (@YouGov) January 20, 2026

Our independence matters

Across Europe, a growing public mood is shifting away from blind reliance on the United States and toward strategic independence. Faced with an increasingly volatile US presidency and selective commitment to international law, many are questioning whether that blind loyalty has been mistaken for strength.

The real failure is not what European leaders have done, but what they have avoided. Leaders have refused to enforce international law consistently and are failing to invest in genuine defence autonomy. Elected governments must now accept the political and economic costs of principle, rather than continue to hide from it. Until we develop the resolve to defend our values without outsourcing power to an unreliable ally, calls for a rules-based order will continue to ring hollow.

As Polanski reminds us: fealty to America is not the only possible world order.

Featured image via the Canary