Trump says he's considering NATO exit amid rift over Iran war

Therein lies the method in the madness. They’ve been looking at a way to invade Greenland and leaving NATO will probably justify the action in this clowns mindset.

Outside the US nobody believes the US/Trump would actually come to aid if attacked by Russia anyway. We all know the US is a traitor country.

good let's make it official.  the US is an international pariah.  let's stop pretending.   Americans voted for this and now they are going to get it and all the acceleration in its declining empire that comes along with it. 

NATO would celebrate if he leaves.

He wants nothing more than for NATO to intervene, as it would give Putin the justification he needs to state that NATO is an aggressive, not defensive alliance.

Putin couldn't be more proud. His little boy is gonna do it.

Anyone with half a brain could see this coming. He was supporting Russia out in the open. Imagine what happened behind closed doors. It makes you think about all the intelligence officials who enabled this and looked the other way over the last decade.

Close the Strait, leave it to the rest of the world to fix and Europe amidst an energy crisis. And a perfect set-up for leaving NATO. If not a Russian asset, why Russian-asset shaped?

Conspiracy theory or not, but I doubt Krasnov could have done a better job.

Rubio co-wrote the bill to curtail the presidents power to pull out. Now he is in the admin who is going to ignore that exact law. Republicans are spineless. Only positive is that they are DONE as a political force after Trump. Utter disgrace.

say what u want but russias blackmail and useful idiot game is the best in the entire world by far they suck at anything that's not built upon lies,deceit and subterfuge

Hey you forget the part where he threatened at least two NATO allies with annexation by either economic force or military force! You know, the things friends do to each other!

You forgot the parts: Calls allies rapists Calls allied troops cowards (Britain lost a bunch of young soldiers in US wars - a lot because they have the guts to do night time patrols) Throws tariffs on countries that have trade surplus with the US Threatens to invade a Nato country Makes money out of Ukraine Threatens Ukraine with mineral shakedown Agrees terms with Putin for Ukraines surrender without talking to Ukraine or negotiating at all Is a paedo.

This f****** piss baby has spent his entire life just getting whatever he wants, he literally cannot handle anyone not doing what he demands. He can go ahead and get the USA out of NATO, we will be just fine without them.

The military operations in the middle east profit from the US military bases in Europe. If they leave NATO, then they will probably lose those bases. This also gives China the signal to invade Taiwan, because if the USA doesn't give a damn about their cultural cousins in Europe, then why should they help Taiwan?

> The Next US president is going to have fun on damage control after the next election The bigger problem, assuming we even get to that point soon, is that all the damage control needed (both internally *and* externally) *will* be painful for Americans... and a significant % of voters will blame the person doing the damage control rather than the one who did the damage in the first place. There needs to be some significant changes made to the American political system, and to the mindsets of tens of millions of Americans, before things can really start improving.

Assuming they will allow for a feee election.

Other nations should stop engaging with him and engage with governors directly. Show the world he has no clothes.

The fact that most people don't get this is amazing to me! Everything Trump does benefits Russia.

TIL Russian assets are shaped like melted candles

and to the rest of listnook apparently

Unfortunately, Trump is the peak symptom of a much deeper disease. The American consciousness is a curated form of propaganda, anchored in a foundational myth of moral innocence and exceptionalism. Historical or current reality, whether systemic subjugation, broken treaties or persistent inequities would shatter this myth, triggering severe cognitive dissonance. To resolve it, the truth is neutralized through legalistic sophistry, linguistic sanitization, and institutional erasure. To protect the image, actual virtue is abandoned. Good faith, intellectual honesty and basic decency is sacrificed to keep the myth-identity intact. It all culminates in a hyper-real political environment that mandates ignorance, elevating leaders who sell the veneer of this fictional past while criminalizing factual critique of the present. The trap is total, creating a system that destroys its own capacity for self-correction to preserve the comforting lie. It sacrifices a more perfect union for the American Dream, one which you need to be asleep to believe, and the only alternative is waking up to a living nightmare.

Americans won’t step up, they’re apathetic and comfortable. The rest of us just need to keep moving away from them and develop nukes of our own.

Americans want this and this is the work of more then one man.

Trump had absolutely no interest in geopolitics until he went to Moscow. According to recently discovered documents, during the 80's the KGB was looking for American businessmen, especially in NYC, who could be cultivated as assets to help divide the country and support Russian policy interests. In 1987, Trump was invited by Soviet officials to visit Moscow.  When he returned he spent hundreds of thousands to take out full page ads in papers like the NYT where he parroting Russian policy objectives to get America to weaken NATO. A former KGB officer has confirmed that Trump was cultivated as an asset by the KGB. Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987.

Well he can’t leave unless he gets two-thirds support for it in the senate which he won’t. He’s just going to throw a fit about it for a month or two and make some mean tweets.

Under Mike Johnson, Trump’s personal butt plug? Nothing.

Congress passed a law during ~~his first administration~~ Biden's administration ( I could have swore they passed it during Trump's, but I just read that it was actually after) that made it so that only congress could pull the US out of NATO. So if he actually tires, it will get challenged legally very quickly by Democratic lawmakers. I doubt Congress as a whole will do anything though, as Trumps stooges will stop any offical reaction. More likely Trump signs an EO commanding the military to disengage from NATO- "legally" not leaving the alliance but rather ordering the various branches to no longer work with it in any way. That still probably gets sued into the ground, but would take longer to get overturned and would cause more damage.

As far as I know, he needs congressional approval, and even though they have majorities in both houses, I don't think the GOP would have the votes. So, while his threat alone causes all sorts of security problems internationally, I don't think the USA could officially leave NATO any time soon.

How do you remove an entire political party backed by millions?

Throw out the duckie? He would never. That's how he lures them into the tub.

The US needs an operation to remove its cancer