Posted on 12/10/2025 6:28:52 AM PST by marshmallow
According to the document, NATO "no longer aligns with current US national security interests"
WASHINGTON, December 10. /TASS/. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky representative, introduced a bill calling for the United States to withdraw from NATO.
"NATO is a Cold War relic," the Republican Congressman wrote on the X social network. "We should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our own country, not socialist countries," the legislator said, referring to the US expenditures in the military alliance.
The lawmaker added that he had submitted a bill to remove the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The document says that European NATO members have sufficient economic and military capacity to provide for their own defense. The bill also states that the alliance began its large-scale expansion to the east in 1999, despite the loss of its relevance and statements to the contrary.
According to the document, NATO "no longer aligns with current US national security interests."
It is not clear yet when the US House of Representatives may consider the bill. Before its review, the document should get approval from the relevant House committees.
Republican Massie has previously opposed US interference in the affairs of other countries and Washington’s use of force. In particular, he criticized US strikes on Iranian facilities on June 22 as a breach of the American Constitution. US President Donald Trump lashed out at Massie over these statements. He also said that he would support Massie’s rival in the Republican Party’s primary election contest.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, DC on April 4, 1949 by the foreign ministers of 12 countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.
NATO has had 10 waves of enlargement, including three in the Cold War period (1952, 1955 and 1982) and seven after its end (1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2024). Today NATO comprises 32 member states.
I don’t advocate getting out of NATO, I would just prefer we serve as the backstop instead of the lead dog.
Screw NATO.
Problem is we can’t trust the NATO partners anymore. They are no longer a defensive outfit, they have become aggressors.
We are better off making individual alliances.
Obviously, the best course of action for a relic of the past. It’s common sense - that’s how I know it will not happen. We don’t do anything that falls under the umbrella of common sense.
Exactly.
Agreed.
We are better off making individual alliances.
With Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, etc.
They don’t need us Rubes.
I am going to guess that it will be a lot of committees.
Some of which will have nothing to do with defense.
If this bill gets any traction at all, Governors will crawl out of cracks in the pavement to oppose the bill because of the loss of jobs in their states as arms sales dry up like leaves in the fall.
Get out before they pull us onto WIII.
The only issue I have is that eventually the Turks will control NATO.
That’s too good an idea to ever happen.
The ONLY WAY that Europeans will grow the balls to deal with their CIVILIZATION-DESTROYING elites (think population replacement, not to mention Net-Zero), is if the US totally decouples from them. As long as we’re involved, they will stay convinced that we will, ultimately, save them, ONCE AGAIN.
Massie keeps needing to get attention for himself.
“The only issue I have is that eventually the Turks will control NATO.”
If so, it will be by activating their 100 million or so ‘migrants’ already in Europe. In that case, it will be FAR TOO LATE for us to save them.
NATO isn't a lot better, but, right now, if we have an interest in saving Europe, then, we need to stay in NATO.
Agree....If they start WWIII....you know damn well we will become the primary defenders.
Why save Europe? We did it twice at the cost of lives and generational capital.
Plus, would they save us. Not likely, more than likely they would help the aggressors.
Yes 100%.
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