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Trump will pull US out of NATO if he wins election, ex-adviser warns
CNN ^ | 02-12-2012 | By Jim Sciutto, CNN

Posted on 02/12/2024 2:56:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

As US allies reel from Donald Trump’s weekend comments encouraging Russia to attack European allies if they don’t meet NATO budget contribution goals, multiple former Trump advisers warn in my upcoming book that the former president will seek to formally withdraw the US from the NATO alliance if he wins a second term.

In “The Return of Great Powers”, which will be published March 12, a former senior US official, who served in both the Trump and Biden administrations at a high level, told me that if Trump defeats President Joe Biden in November “the US will be out of NATO.”

“NATO would be in real jeopardy,” John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, agreed. “I think he would try to get out.”

Trump’s disparagement of US security commitments extends to its mutual defense agreements with South Korea and Japan as well, retired General John Kelly, who served as White House chief of staff to Trump, told me.

“The point is, he saw absolutely no point in NATO,” Kelly said in the book. “He was just dead set against having troops in South Korea, again, a deterrent force, or having troops in Japan, a deterrent force.”

“He thought (Vladimir) Putin was an okay guy and Kim (Jong Un) was an okay guy ­that we had pushed North Korea into a corner,” Kelly recalled. “To him, it was like we were goading these guys. ‘If we didn’t have NATO, then Putin wouldn’t be doing these things.’”

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To: Responsibility2nd

Please! I’m already voting for Trump, you don’t have to sell me on him.


101 posted on 02/12/2024 3:52:49 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If you toss out the u.n. at the same time, it’s a win/win!


102 posted on 02/12/2024 3:53:39 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Boomer

No it is not. Remember when Russia asked the West to join NATO? Clinton era I believe, they said no. IF they were allowed to join NATO, we would have saved $$$ Trillions , and Peace and Prosperity would have engulfed Europe.


103 posted on 02/12/2024 3:53:41 PM PST by delta7
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To: Responsibility2nd

Eff NATO...They’re freeloaders and mostly anti American countries who don’t pay their bills while demanding the U.S. taxpayers protect them and foot the bill.

Lose lose...Enough!


104 posted on 02/12/2024 3:53:56 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChessExpert

NATO is a solution in search of a problem and they will find one even if they have to create it.


105 posted on 02/12/2024 3:54:23 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: yuleeyahoo

NATO is a solution in search of a problem and they will find one even if they have to create it.

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You mean like creating the Russian/Ukraine War? Yep, you got that right.


106 posted on 02/12/2024 3:56:16 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Samurai_Jack
https://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/whats-trumps-position-on-nato/

Trump: I think NATO may be obsolete. NATO was set up a long time ago — many, many years ago when things were different. Things are different now. We were a rich nation then. We had nothing but money. We had nothing but power. And you know, far more than we have today, in a true sense. And I think NATO — you have to really examine NATO. And it doesn’t really help us, it’s helping other countries. And I don’t think those other countries appreciate what we’re doing.

107 posted on 02/12/2024 3:57:12 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m already voting for the guy, you don’t have to sell me.


108 posted on 02/12/2024 3:58:05 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: babble-on

Many Americans, if not most, have soured on NATO and recognize it for the sick, uneven, and parasitic alliance that it is. If Trump is elected after openly stating his distain for NATO, then it can be concluded that the American public is sick of NATO and we should end it.


109 posted on 02/12/2024 3:59:35 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That’s a warning? I call it a promise.


110 posted on 02/12/2024 3:59:44 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: Feckless

Same with the UN.

In the Aesop fable, the lion’s “share” is the whole thing! OK it’s not that bad but close to it.


111 posted on 02/12/2024 4:00:47 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Responsibility2nd

Why do we have NATO?

Why do we have gain of function research?


112 posted on 02/12/2024 4:01:31 PM PST by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: hanamizu

A POTUS can violate an existing treaty, rendering it null and void.

And nobody can stop him as long as he holds the office.

Even if removed from office, that treaty is still void due to violation.

It would have to be redone.


113 posted on 02/12/2024 4:01:45 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: fightin kentuckian

Why do WE need NATO. Are they going to send troops to the US if China invades us? I mean to help us fight, not take their share of the booty? Eff them, Europe in general is anti American and doomed to being overrun by Africans and Mohammadens. If we take the time to secure our country, they can drift off into the New Dark Ages, and we can be safe and secure at home. WE DON’T NEED ANY OF THEM to live a good life.


114 posted on 02/12/2024 4:02:06 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yup...9-11...All those NATO countries sent help...NOT


115 posted on 02/12/2024 4:06:03 PM PST by Sacajaweau (..)
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To: Sacajaweau

https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/digital-exhibitions/digital-exhibition-revealed-hunt-bin-laden/international-community-responds


116 posted on 02/12/2024 4:07:30 PM PST by Sacajaweau (..)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The US has a treaty obligation to NATO. It’s not like the phoney “Paris Agreement” which doesn’t even exist on paper. Trump can’t take us out unilaterally by executive order or some such. He knows it, Bolton knows it, but getting airtime even with a smear is always worth it to the likes of Bolton.


117 posted on 02/12/2024 4:07:48 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. . )
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To: Fledermaus

All we are to NATO is troops to defend their countries so they don’t have to, pull us out.


118 posted on 02/12/2024 4:09:26 PM PST by Ronald77
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To: Responsibility2nd

JB, as irrelevant as always.


119 posted on 02/12/2024 4:09:48 PM PST by exinnj
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To: Kazan

You espouse truth in this(post #42 comment, I agree with the entirety of of.


120 posted on 02/12/2024 4:10:06 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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