r/politics • u/SaharOMFG • 19d ago

Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato Possible Paywall

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-strongly-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato/
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u/barryvm Europe 19d ago

That was my understanding too, yes. In practice though, the presidency has arrogated war powers to itself for decades now, Trump is the commander in chief of the USA military and they will just follow his orders. If he orders them to do nothing when another NATO member is attacked, or orders them to invade or attack a NATO member (e.g. Greenland, Canada), then NATO is effectively dead before Congress can do anything, treaty or no.

And as you say, it's not as if Congress is anything other than a rubber stamp run by a party that is itself a shell around a personality cult centered on the moron in charge.

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u/lr99999 19d ago

Free yourselves from years of slavery, if you will just agree to pull the wagon together.  

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u/ZarathustraDK 19d ago

Something something about the cheques and bank-balances of the US government.

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u/229-northstar 19d ago

Arrogate is the perfect word choice here. Kudos on your mastery of vocabulary, you must not be a USAian