Washington – President Donald Trump thinks of a major change in US participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to three congress officials.
Trump discusses aides the possibility of the congestion Join NATO in America In a way that alliance members have been favored to spend a specified percentage of their gross domestic defense product, officials said.
As part of the potential policy transfer, the US may not protect a companion member of the NATO if the country does not meet the expenditure of defense, the officers say. If Trump makes that change, it marks an important transition from A core teenet of Alliance known as Article 5that an attack on any country we are an attack at all.
The President Similarly considered policy change in which US may choose to first lead the military exercises to the Members of NATO to spend the specified percentage of their GDPs in the defense, the officials said. His administration signed the Americas in America that the US reduces the presence of European military, and an option was set to their GDPs in their GDPs, said officers.
Asked with Trump considering this changes how the US participated in NATO, a National Security Council officially said in a written statement, “President Trump was committed to NATO and Article V.”
Chris Coons, D-del., The main democrat of Senate Subcommittee participants Trump’s Trump’s Chetracte “in Trump’s ChetroleD” in reality
Trump is repeatedly criticizing NATO countries for the NATO’s current purpose of the NATO 2% of their GDP spent on defense. He argues that the difference is unfair and placed an additional burden in the US
NATO countries agree more than a decade ago to put the purpose of spending for each of them by 2% of GDP. But Trump has pushed to increase the percentage. He said most recently that Members of NATO should spend 5% of their GDPS of defense, even if it does not do so in the US.
“NATO must pay more,” said Trump January after taking office. “It’s funny because it affects them more. We have a sea in between.”
According to the latest statistics of NATO, last year 23 spending on NATO’s defense exceeds 2% of their GDP. Five of the countries – Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Poland and US – spent more than 3% in defense. Poland spent the largest percentage, dedicated 4.12% of its GDP to protect.
Considering a shift of how US involvement in NATO comes while Trump runs European allies to make a cause of war in the country if the war reaches.
“I contacted a lot of European ambassadors concerning the rumors Trump could make some negative notice about NATO,” Con congesses the NBC News in a Wednesday interview. Trump didn’t let anything in the united address, but the coons said, “If you haven’t stopped all about President Trump’s statements and actions, you don’t care.”
Trump threatens US withdrawal from NATO in his first term and asked the merits of Article 5 for the country. Article 5 is designed to protect European countries from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It is triggered once only, after 9/11 in the US attack
Ukraine is looking for NATO membership, but the Trump administration says it cannot be part of any negotiations in peace.
