US EditionTrump Suggests U.S. Is Considering Leaving ‘Paper Tiger’ NATO
Trump said NATO membership is no longer in doubt after questioning whether allies would support the U.S. in a future war.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump stated he is considering pulling the United States out of NATO after allies failed to join his war on Iran, citing their refusal as disqualifying.
- Refusals from France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Spain to support the mission, including France denying airspace for cargo transit, have frustrated Trump and widened the transatlantic divide.
- The United States makes up about 65 percent of NATO's total defense spending, while gasoline prices have climbed above $4 per gallon and crude oil hit $120 per barrel last month.
- Trump warned that the United States will remember allies' refusal to help, telling nations to "go get your own oil" and criticizing France as "VERY UNHELPFUL" regarding the Butcher of Iran.
- As the divide between the United States and NATO members widens, the President is scheduled to address the nation Wednesday night on the Iran war, which Trump said could end in "two weeks, maybe three.
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The president shakes the geopolitical board by assuring that he is seriously considering taking the United States out of NATO, after accusing the European allies of not supporting the offensive against Iran. "We have been there automatically, even with Ukraine. Ukraine was not our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren't there for us," Trump said.
"I've always known she was a paper tiger": US President Trump has once again expressed himself renegade over NATO. He has long doubted the alliance.
U.S. President Donald Trump said this Wednesday that he is "more than considering" NATO's departure, deepening criticism of allies for failing to support Washington in the war in Iran. "I would say that it is more than being considered. I never let myself be influenced by NATO. I always knew it was a paper tiger," the U.S. President warned in an interview with the British daily 'Telegraph', asking if he is considering the U.S.'s permanence in th…
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