Washington, May 4 -- Former US national security advisor Keith Kellogg said that during his tenure in President Donald Trump's first presidential term (2017-2021), he had advised the US leader to reconsider Washington's military relations with Europe within the framework of NATO.
"I told the president . 'Maybe you ought to talk about a tiered relationship with NATO'," Kellogg told Fox News, adding that the US "needs to develop a new NATO, for lack of a better term, a new defensive alignment with Europe."The former presidential envoy for Ukraine further noted that the transatlantic military bloc, which originally consisted of 12 countries, now includes 32 states, thus consisting of a "very bloated architecture." He also accused European cou...