Is Trump Planning To Withdraw US From NATO

According to a Rolling Stone magazine article, Trump is planning to withdraw the US from NATO once he wins the 2024 election, but he might not follow through on that desire.

If he wins the 2024 election, former US President Donald Trump has talked of leaving NATO or drastically reducing the US's commitment to the organization, according to a Rolling Stone magazine article published on Monday.

Rolling Stone said that Trump had stated that he would be willing to leave NATO entirely or stay if its European members increased their defense spending and removed Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which treats an attack on one member state as an attack on all 31. The publication cited two sources who allegedly heard Trump make the remarks.

In mid-2018, Trump angrily told his advisers, "Starting World War III over some of the bloc's smaller members makes no sense," claiming that most Americans were unaware of some of these nations. This tale, attributed to a "former senio...

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