 Putin and Trump threatened West with disaster. Europe is facing existential danger and even disaster. In the possibility, the US will elect a Trump administration that exits NATO and leaves the West vulnerable to attack. From Putin's Russia, a group of leading experts warned according to iNews. As the two-year anniversary of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine nears, leading Russia analysts at London's Chatham House think tank one, one, European defenses are perilously thin with the UK and other nations running out of key weaponry. Two, Russia wants to test the viability of NATO's Article 5 mutual defense agreement in which an attack on one member state is seen as an attack on all and will be likely to do so if America's commitment to the alliance is in doubt. Three, assaults on Baltic states are feared with concerns that Russia would use the threat of battlefield nuclear weapons to keep hold of land grabs on NATO territory. The continent will need a new EU defense commissioner and a beefed-up security deal between Brussels and the UK to counter the threat from a revanchist Russia in case the US leaves the continent to defend itself. According to Natalie Sabanadze, senior research fellow at the think tanks Russia and Eurasia program according to iNews, this is something that they are thinking about. She said, Europe definitely needs more investment in security and defense and coordination because it is a very fragmented scene. And I think it will be vital to have a special agreement with the UK and they're already talking about it. The need for a huge boost in Europe-wide defense spending and cooperation is not vital, it's existential, said Sabanadze's colleague Keir Giles during the briefing. If we want to protect Europe against what Putin wants to do, there's absolutely no question this has to happen. The Chatham House Group repeated the warning of other analysts that America's withdrawal from NATO or even its doubts over its commitment to the defense alliance would put Europe in immediate peril.