IRAQ PERSPECTIVE

Baghdad covers the NATO withdrawal threat with the attention of someone living in the middle of the battlefield. Iraqi News relays the White House information: Trump will discuss the possibility of leaving NATO at his meeting with Rutte. For Iraq, torn between American and Iranian influence, any American disengagement from multilateral structures has direct consequences. If Washington punishes its European allies for lack of support during the war against Iran — a war partly playing out on Iraqi soil and in Iraqi airspace — Baghdad becomes even more isolated, caught between a strengthened Iran and an unpredictable American ally. Iraqi coverage is brief and factual, but the news pickup says everything: in a country saturated with urgencies, the fact that NATO makes headlines shows Baghdad measures the impact of Western security architecture collapse on its own survival.