His father should have pulled out.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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But remember folks! There’s a lot of (disillusioned) people here that would like everyone to know that Trump and Biden are exactly the same!
No. Just no. We pressure Biden because we want him to be better. We believe he can be. Trump is a lost cause who should be in prison for attempting a coup.
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It would backfire like Brexit. Imagine the USA openly shunted by all former allies about their war crimes and other international crimes. The US forgets they currently can get away with a lot, and they do, because they are also an important ally. If you remove their NATO support, what reason is left to whistle ignorance?
The US forgets they currently can get away with a lot, and they do, because they are also an important ally
I think it's only Trump who forgets this not the US. I am not even sure he understands it really
It's not only Trump.
It's also Trump voters and voters who stay at home and let him back into office.
I'll be pleasantly surprised if a majority of American voters turn out against him.
Last time it was about 1 in 3 voted for him, 1 in 3 voted against him, and 1 in 3 didn't show up.
Brexit was a disaster because the UK economy was third-place-and-shrinking in the economic block. They had no leverage.
NATOXIT would be a much bigger deal, because the US is the premier global military power and the single largest exporter of weapons and associated tech.
Also, the NATO thing is pure bluster in order to assert leverage over the bloc, while Brexit was a dog-catching-the-car scenario. The Tories invented so many fictions about how awful EU membership was that they couldn't accept what generous concessions were offered. Meanwhile, Trump will happily take a big personal kickback for a small concession on arms sales.
The US getting held accountable for it's war crimes? Sounds too good to be true.
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It requires approval of the US congress.
Implying checks and balances will apply to "only 1 day" dictator Don.
So what happens if he just says not to go help NATO if article 5 is invoked (if that's the one where a member is attacked)? Doing nothing seems more up his alley anyways, pulling out requires more work so he'll probably just say no if it's needed.
I got no idea if the US armed forces can deploy without the president's approval in some way or if Trump says no go then it's completely off. Been wondering as a NATO neighbor who's country he called a security threat his first term.
Sure, with Kaine's and Rubio's bill from December, it now requires Senate approval. But all Trump really needs to do is to say that the US won't help its allies, which is what he's doing. And since NATO is based on deterrence, he's effective undermining trust in NATO as an alliance. The winners are Russia and China.
You know who also wasn't in NATO? Ukraine.
Bruh, if Trump wins and we pull out of Nato, Russia won't even have to invade us. Trump will give Putin a fist bump and a welcome basket when he arrives off the plane.
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For those that want to break everything, this is a feature, not a bug. The magats would rather send the world into the toilet rather than not be able to "own the libs" (and women, and POC, and LGBTQ and immigrants, and anyone with one iota more education than them, etc.).
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So usa are going to leave there military bases on our land right ?
Well last time trump did a withdrawal of troops they left everything for the taliban, so it stands to reason it would happen again.
The elites don't want you to know this but the fighter jets at overseas military bases are free you can take them home. I have 12 F-35s
Lockheed Martin hates this one simple trick!
Hey, hello Howard, next door neighbor... Oi yeah get your jumbo jet out of my airport!
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Sick delectable piece of trash.
detestable?
You heard the man. Don't kink shame
Lmao
any Party may cease to be a Party [of NATO] one year after its notice of denunciation has been given to the Government of the United States of America, which will inform the Governments of the other Parties of the deposit of each notice of denunciation
“America? It’s America, we quit”
Euro confusion intensifies
— Hello America, we need to talk.
— Sure America, what's going on?
— Not on the phone, this is very important.
— Where do you want to meet?
— Somewhere public.
In order to do that Trump would need a MAGA-Republican majority in the US Senate as well, due to a recently bi-partisan enacted law by Congress stating as much - https://thehill.com/homenews/4360407-congress-approves-bill-barring-president-withdrawing-nato/
Trump will do whatever is in his power to do, legal or not. As long as Putin tells him he is in the tough guy maffia club, ensuring him that he is invincible.
This shouldn't really be news to people, he literally attempted that once already.
I believe there is now a law that says that a President can't pull out of NATO. Only Congress can make that call.
Good, then NATO can charge the US with war crimes since they will no longer be an ally. Get fucked
I would gladly watch all of our politicians get charged with war crimes. I can only dream.
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No, Putin didn't ask him to do that. Totally just an idea he has for some reason.
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