Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Nato secretary general Mark Rutte during a trilateral meeting at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, Armenia. via REUTERS President Donald Trump recently announced that he was reducing the US military presence in Germany by at least 5,000 troops, with plans to “cut way down” the 70,000 active-duty military personnel in Europe. The move came after Western European nations brusquely rejected Trump’s request for help in securing the Strait of Hormuz when the Iranian regime threatened it. Both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the media that the US conflict with Iran wasn’t “our war.” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz added that the United States, which has demolished much of Iran’s military capabilities and economy, was being “humiliated” by the clerics. NATO was conceived as an intergovernmental military alliance meant to thwart Soviet ambitions.…