Though the US President's threats to blow up Iran's oil and gas gacilities and destroy the country's entire infrastructure can be take with a pich of salt because Iran's allies, Russia and China, are unlikely to sit back and let that happen, his warning that the US could pull out of NATO should shock even the most complacent and anti-American elements on tEurope's political left.
Mr Trump has reportedly raised the issue in private discussions with White House aides in recent days, and on Wednesday confirmed that he was ‘absolutely’ reviewing membership.
There are a number of valid reasons why it would serve US interests to do this. The global reach of US military power and the fact that the USA brings weapons and tactics to NATO that no other country has, or is ever likely to have being the main one. With American backing, NATO has credibility in its deterrent fuction (we must remember that the purpose of forming NATO in 1945 was to defend Europe angaist any future rebirth of Nazi style totalitarian ideology,) with its whole defensive strategy being built on defensive capabilities and will to usethose capabilities.
Without the USA the only remaining defensive capability is in the nuclear sphere because of the independent British and French arsenals. In terms of conventional warfare NATO would be a toothless guard dog because leadership in member states has been content to let the USA be the world's peacekeeper, while British and French governments chose to neglect national security in favour of politically correct, virtue signalling policies and vanity projects. An aggressor could well, therefore, be tempted to take actions that fell short of the use, or riposte, of weapons of mass destruction. A Russian incursion into a non-Nato state, for example, Bosnia and Herzegovina or Moldova; or even a limited incursion in the Baltic, either on land or at sea. And financially of course, without the money Washington throws in NATO would be bankrupt.
President Trump's threat to NATO came as the latest in a sereies of contemptuous responses to the failure of traditional allies to give their support to the US/Israeli war on Iran. Foremost in his targets for criticism was UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with whom his disappointment, first over his refusal allow US bombers to use the joint base on Diego Garcia and the RAF bases in Cyprus and at Fairford in Gloucestershire for strikes on Iran, and over Starmer’s reluctance to deploy the Royal Navy to defend the shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, and then his refusal to take part in re-opening the Strait of Hormuz. France’s preference for diplomacy over action has irked him too.
Whether or not this outburst was more than a mark of his frustration with unappreciative allies or a wake-up call to NATO member states rather than a than genuine threat, it still suggests an alarming failure on his part to understand what NATO is and is not;
Bringing home 100,000 troops already on the US taxpayer rolls is a political winner. Losing command positions in an outdated, unattended, organization doesn't seem like a loss, just a matter of course. And upon pulling out of NATO, the US understands old alliances will be lost, but if those allies are only interested in a one sided alliance in which the USA defends freedom against tyranny while the allies whose security benefits from US strength make trade deals with America's enemies, there is no point in the US continuing to be part of NATO.
The morale boosting of being stationed in Europe is not what it used to be (unless some diplomatic post) and will soon carry the same weight as being stationed in Iraq. Yesterday (Good Friday 2026) we saw British leaders praising sitting down with muzzies, and a few days ago Britain's monarch (who has allegedly converted to Islam,) lauding a Muslim leader who is presiding over a genocide of Christians in his homeland. No surprise then that the United Nations is considering a global ban on criticism of Islam.
This begs the question how long will it be until Great Britain, Germany, or France become just another Muslim country with a nuke. Europe is a sinking ship, recruiting more and more basket case states like Albania to the European Union to drag down even powerhouse economies like Germany
The conflict in Ukraine, which NATO could have prevented had any leader including Trump's predecessor, ben able to muster the Testicular Fortitude to stand up to both Moscow, and the neo - Nazi regime in Kiev, was a money laundering scheme from the outset and is only an issue because of weak, appeasing, governments that lack the will to act. So what, hypothetically is lost if Ukraine is lost? The great have always swallowed up the lesser.
The Russians have no room or reason to laugh as they send their personnel, their people, to the slaughtered in Ukraine. Why is it--how is Russia such a problem if Europe keeps funding Russia for Russian energy? Does Europe fear a Russian invasion? Why? China never feared NATO as they do the other treaty/blocs formed by the US, Japan, SKorea, Australia, et. al.
And what's "funny", just like Russia, China probably sees the European betrayal of American interests as "funny". Is Europe a federal nation of semi autonomous states, or a continent made up of individual nationalities? No one seems to know and that seems the point all along.
Its not just NATO, and the United Nations that would be bankupt without American support, it's the WHO, IMF, all of these international organizations that have lost sight of their original purpose and meanings, and are now a gigantic anti-American bureaucraxy with ambitions to become a global government, and yet find themselves incapable of survival without US taxpayer dollars.
Should the US taxpayer pay eternally for anti-American behavior? For alliances that like to virtue signal their opposition to America?
If Trump quits both NATO and the UN both will die and nations will be forced to make alliances and trade arrangements with geographic neighbours and nations of similar economic and cultural development instead of bureaucrats from third world failed states being allowed to jerk the strings of successful, socially and economically devloped nations.
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