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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True Fact. Biden and NATO pushed Russia into war with Ukraine.
Bolton is an anti-Trump hack now who is determined to make the neo-cons love him.
I hope so.
NATO is useless.
NATO is one of the political and security pillars of globohomo
People forget that it was Trump who talked Rocket Man from not pressing the Red Button. Trump brought relations with Best Korea to a better place than any other time in history.
GREAT
FTA....
“Democrat and media pearl-clutchers seem to have forgotten that we had four years of peace and prosperity under President Trump, but Europe saw death and destruction under Obama-Biden and now more death and destruction under Biden,”
This is terrible news for American moms and dads who were looking forward to having their kids fight overseas. /s
What do we need NATO for anyway?
I mean Trump literally said he will not honor US commitments to NATO. That’s his actual verbalized policy.
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Bolton recalls the 2018 summit with genuine fear. “Honest to God, it was frightening because we didn’t know what he was going to do up until the last minute. And I mean, I think, he all but said he was going to get out of NATO and then pulled back on it,” said Bolton.
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Too bad Trump listened to people like Bolton.
Bolton says this like it’s a bad thing.
Cool.
Europe can be our allies without us being in NATO.
NATO was a holdover from WWII if I’m not mistaken. A lot has changed since then. Countries have realigned. Illegal immigration has ruined some countries since then.
This is not a simple issue.
Great!
But I think this is just fake news
John Bolton is an arrogant, insubordinate, son of a b*tch that Trump fired. NOTHING he says about Trump is true.
I thought of Bolton just from the headline. Is this mis-information or dis-? I can’t keep them straight
NATO and the UN are just two examples of the US funding anti-American interests!
Not sure why Trump hates NATO. I would urge him to stay in NATO and ensure that all members pony up their fair share and take care of their own back yard.
It’s the UN and WHO we need to withdraw from. And any other organization that actively works against American interests.
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