Maybe what is needed it a re-evaluation of our interests and operations?
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I agree with you. I just answered a couple of questions you posed as objectively as I could. While there are myriad reasons to remain in NATO, my personal opinion is that we need to broadly reassess the level of our various commitments. NATO has been dodging its responsibilities and refusing to pay its fair share for many decades (going back to at least the early 1970’s). Our response now should be to reduce our participation and support if the other member countries won’t do more in the way of burden sharing.
You’ve given all the old reasons for staying in, and I appreciate the effort you took to respond. But that was then, this is now. If Trump has shown anything it’s that he believes that being involved in international agreements like TPP, NAFTA and the Paris Accords, and in foreign alliances like NATO, are not in our best interest. The U.S. operates best, in his view, when they operate alone without being responsible for other countries or hampered by group agreements. His disgust with NATO is clear and that isn’t going to change. So far today he’s given a number of reasons why we should leave and not a single reason why we should stay. I believe that the President thinks that it’s time to cut the NATO cord as well, and I can’t understand why he isn’t taking this opportunity to do so.