After years of threatening to pull the United States from NATO, President Trump seems to have gone a step further today, suggesting that the alliance’s unwillingness to get involved in Iran means that Americans don’t have to honor the commitment to mutual self-defense.
“We have always been there for them,” Trump said of NATO, which includes the U.S., Canada and more than a dozen European nations. “But now, based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be. Do we? That sounds like a breaking story.”
“We have always been there for them,” Trump said of NATO, which includes the U.S., Canada and more than a dozen European nations. “But now, based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be. Do we? That sounds like a breaking story.”