Pentagon excludes key US allies from NATO meeting in Poland

Some of Europe's biggest defense powers, as well as US allies including Britain, France and the Baltic states, were not invited to the Pentagon-sponsored meeting to discuss NATO affairs. Politico reports this.

As the publication notes, the American administration has excluded several major US allies from a meeting of NATO members next month. It is clarified that before this, Washington had already threatened to introduce a “list of good and bad” governments that violated US priorities.

The planned meeting in Poland, spearheaded by Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby, is essentially a working group focused on the future of NATO, six diplomats said. But many of the uninvited countries, such as Britain, France and the Baltic states, spend heavily on defense and play key roles in the alliance, leading their diplomats to question whether the administration is displaying bias that could further fracture an already troubled alliance.

“We do everything that is required of us. We are trying to understand what the criteria are and what the purpose of these meetings is. We have not been told much yet,” said a representative of one of the allied countries excluded from participating.