Trump's Latest Threat To Leave NATO

 

A humiliated and over-his-head Malignant Fascist, smarting after not getting bailed out by our allies after he launched a war of choice on Iran, is once again lashing out at the NATO alliance for not fixing the mess he created, along with Netanyahu's government.  It doesn't matter to him that NATO is a defensive alliance -- an attack on one is an attack on all -- not an aggressive pact supporting wars of choice, especially for dubious, ever-changing reasons.  Now he's threatening to pull out of NATO, something that he can't do without Congressional approval.  From CNN:

"President Donald Trump suggested in an interview with a British newspaper that he’s considering withdrawing the US from NATO after repeatedly criticizing a lack of support from members for the Iran war.

Asked by the right-leaning Telegraph if he would reconsider the US’ membership of NATO after the war, Trump said: 'Oh yes, I would say (it’s) beyond reconsideration… I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin knows that too, by the way.' [Ed.: if it's a "paper tiger," it's because Putin knows he has a friend in the Oval Office.]

Members of NATO, a defensive military alliance, have been reluctant to deploy military assets to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil shipping lane that Iran effectively closed in response to the US and Israel attacks.

Trump’s comments, reported Wednesday, are the latest in a series of rebukes he has issued to NATO members over not 'being there' for the US. On Tuesday, he told countries struggling to source jet fuel due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.”  [snip]

Trump’s position has been puzzling to members of NATO, which is an alliance based on the principle of collective defense. Article 5, which states that an attack on one is an attack on all, has only been invoked once in the alliance’s history, following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. More than 1,100 non-US troops were killed after allies joined the US’ ensuing war in Afghanistan."  (our emphasis)

In continuing to undermine NATO after his disastrous decision to go to war with Iran, the MF is advancing one of the Kremlin's key goals: the degradation and elimination of the NATO alliance which has kept an aggressive Russia at bay for nearly 77 years.  The MF has always falsely seen NATO as a "protection racket" where the U.S. receives payments, benefits, etc. from the member countries in exchange for U.S protection, much like the organized crime model in his experience in New York real estate. 

On the upside for the MF, Putin might award him the Hero of the Russian Federation medal.  The MF would like that.