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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It was over 14.2 trillion ago when Trump first became President ...
Bolton is a lying pos.
And what you said is nonsense.
Trump didn’t and isn’t going to leave NATO.
Nor did NATO “make” Putin invade Ukraine. Boy You must think Putin is an idiot.
NATO is a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1949. I don’t think that a President can unilaterally pull out of a treaty obligation.
Good. UN too.
NATO should have been disbanded when the Soviet Union did. It’s all about the perks and the $$$.
There is a lot of USELESS crap going on,,and has been for years.
Can we get it in writing cause honestly the problem is..
I am so sick of stupidity.
Donald Trump has never said we will leave NATO.
But all this extreme idiocy in his name might cost him the presidency.
No Trump will not leave NATO.
Oy.
And it’s all a total waste of billions.
NATO came about to oppose the Soviet Union and Communism from threatening Western Europe in 1949. At that point in history the western European countries were to financially and militarily weak to oppose a determined Soviet invasion.
Well those two.......
Trump doesn’t hate NATO he just made them pay more of what they had agreed to pay.
I’m beginning to think all the boogey men touted by the MSM and the CIA could be natural allies.
Where did the $$$ go?
Bolton is a neocon-never-met-a-war-he-didn’t-like dufus. He will say anything to keep Trump out of the whitehouse.
I would be really surprised if Trump pulled us out of NATO but would not be surprised if he stomped his feet and made other NATO countries start being serious about defending themselves.
No, I think Zelensky and all you Zeepers are idiots.
Same with the OIC’s UN.
They're not going to pay their fair share. Why would they? They've had a free ride for so long.
Twenty years too late.
5 star hotels, private chefs, hookers, jet planes, etc.
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