The U.S. would be much better of if he did, but the Deep State would never let Trump get away with it. From Finian Cunningham at strategic-culture.su:
There’s a laughable scare story doing the rounds in Western media that Donald Trump is going to pull the U.S. out of the NATO alliance if he is elected president next year.
The New York Times headlined: “Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks a Return to Power”.
It goes on to report: “Current and former European diplomats said there was growing concern a second Trump presidency could mean an American retreat from the continent and a gutting of NATO.”
According to the NY Times: “European ambassadors and think tank officials have been making pilgrimages to associates of Mr Trump to inquire about his intentions… In interviews over the past several months, more than a half-dozen current and former European diplomats — speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from Mr Trump should he win — said alarm was rising on Embassy Row and among their home governments that Mr Trump’s return could mean not just the abandonment of Ukraine, but a broader American retreat from the continent and a gutting of the Atlantic alliance.”
The newspaper quotes Admiral James Stavridis, a former commander of NATO (2009-2013), as saying: “There is great fear in Europe that a second Trump presidency would result in an actual pullout of the United States from NATO.”
Another alarmist voice is that of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper who headed up the Pentagon during Trump’s earlier presidency. Esper told U.S. media last week that Trump would pull the United States out of NATO and also withdraw thousands of American troops from bases in South Korea and Japan.
It is being touted that if Trump overcame his various legal battles and succeeded in returning for a second presidency by beating incumbent Joe Biden next November he will unleash mayhem among America’s allies and cripple U.S. foreign interests.
Of course, the media outlets that are promoting this kind of fear-mongering are diehard anti-Trump outlets. The frenzy about Trump pulling out of NATO and the supposed “anxiety” among allies is a threadbare electioneering ploy to raise fears among U.S. voters that the Republican candidate is going to damage the international standing of the United States and harm national security interests.
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Don’t scare the rump vassals like that.
They love that free lucre from Uncle Sugar.
Russia could always smash NATO on the way to the English Channel! (sarc)
Or are they a big dumb Ivan with a gas station? (” “)