Trump will pull US out of NATO if he wins election, ex-adviser warns

The United States has maintained longstanding support to NATO. Most recently, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, enacted on December 22, 2023, prohibits the President from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO without approval of a two-third Senate super-majority or an act of Congress.[71] This bill was a response to Donald Trump's repeated expressions of interest in withdrawing from the organization.[72][73]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_NATO#United_States

That link also claims the Greens want out of NATO, so I guess they see eye-to-eye with Trump on that one? Honestly, it makes me less likely to support the Greens now that I know that.

His father should have pulled out.

But remember folks! There’s a lot of (disillusioned) people here that would like everyone to know that Trump and Biden are exactly the same!

It would backfire like Brexit. Imagine the USA openly shunted by all former allies about their war crimes and other international crimes. The US forgets they currently can get away with a lot, and they do, because they are also an important ally. If you remove their NATO support, what reason is left to whistle ignorance?

We know. Get out and vote!!!

It requires approval of the US congress.

You know who also wasn't in NATO? Ukraine.

For those that want to break everything, this is a feature, not a bug. The magats would rather send the world into the toilet rather than not be able to "own the libs" (and women, and POC, and LGBTQ and immigrants, and anyone with one iota more education than them, etc.).

Nothing like observing the stakes of a literal world war starting if a retard wins the ballot.

So usa are going to leave there military bases on our land right ?

Sick delectable piece of trash.

any Party may cease to be a Party [of NATO] one year after its notice of denunciation has been given to the Government of the United States of America, which will inform the Governments of the other Parties of the deposit of each notice of denunciation

“America? It’s America, we quit”

Euro confusion intensifies

In order to do that Trump would need a MAGA-Republican majority in the US Senate as well, due to a recently bi-partisan enacted law by Congress stating as much - https://thehill.com/homenews/4360407-congress-approves-bill-barring-president-withdrawing-nato/

Trump will do whatever is in his power to do, legal or not. As long as Putin tells him he is in the tough guy maffia club, ensuring him that he is invincible.

This shouldn't really be news to people, he literally attempted that once already.

I believe there is now a law that says that a President can't pull out of NATO. Only Congress can make that call.

Good, then NATO can charge the US with war crimes since they will no longer be an ally. Get fucked

No, Putin didn't ask him to do that. Totally just an idea he has for some reason.

I wonder if the rest of NATO would allow this. Like, okay, the US "pulls out" and stops all their commitments to NATO. It would still be in NATO's best interest, should Trump eventually leave office, that the US retain its membership. Create a paperwork "penalty box" that allows Trump to feel like he's won but allow future, more sane Presidents, an easy on-ramp back into full membership.

Thanks for welcoming me to your town Mayor Winky.

Is John Bolton a good guy now?

From what I understand, Trump alone could not make the US leave NATO. And despite how despicable some Republicans are, I think he’s made enough enemies within his own party to never see that actually happen.

Duh

Perhaps the Americans leaving NATO turns out to be the thing that prevents WW3. We will only know this if WW3 starts in a similar manner to WW1 with all the alliances.

That would be a good thing.

NATO needs to be dissolved.

No he won't.

He made this exact same campaign promise back in 2016 and he didn't pull the US out of NATO when he became president.

The only thing he did was to call out the majority of member countries that weren't paying their agreed about share, causing (primarily) the US to make up the difference.

There is no such thing as the "North Atlantic" it is a nonsensical organization, there is no logical reason for the US and Canada to be in a millitary alliance based on the made up polity of the "North Atlantic", not saying that European countries shouldn't care about regional defense, but that has nothing to do with the US or Canada. Nato is just an excuse for the US to park it's nukes and bases in Europe and extend it's millitary power, no one needs nukes, and people especially don't need foreign nukes in their country.

edit: also Trump would never pull out of NATO, the farthest he would ever go is threaten and then coerce European countries pay more of a share of the budget and say he made a "better deal", but he's quite obviously bluffing