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"Donald Trump has said he is “absolutely” considering withdrawing the US from
Nato, warning that the matter was “beyond reconsideration” after the refusal of
US allies to join the US-Israeli war against Iran.
The president’s threats, his most determined to date, have left the alliance
facing its worst crisis in its 77-year history, a former US ambassador has
said.
Trump has long been vocally sceptical about the benefit of Nato membership to
the US, but since North Atlantic allies have refused to take part in the
month-long, faltering US-Israeli assault on Iran, the president has stepped up
his rhetoric.
He told
Reuters news agency on Wednesday he was “absolutely without question”
considering withdrawing, after telling the
Telegraph the matter was “beyond
reconsideration”, insisting he had never been “swayed by Nato”. He signalled
that he would express his disgust for Nato in an address to the nation
scheduled for Wednesday evening.
It could be politically and constitutionally difficult for Trump to formally
withdraw from the 1949 Washington treaty, Nato’s founding document, but Ivo
Daalder, the US permanent representative at Nato headquarters from 2009 to
2013, said the serious damage to the alliance had already been done.
“This is by far the worst crisis Nato has ever confronted. Military alliances
are, at their core, based on trust: the confidence that if I am attacked, you
will come help defend,” Daalder wrote in an online commentary. “It’s hard to
see how any European country will now be able and willing to trust the United
States to come to its defence.”"
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
