Trump Aides “Scrambled” After He Raised Leaving NATO Altogether “Several Times”

• Trump Aides “Scrambled” After He Raised Leaving NATO Altogether “Several Times”
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  President Trump has privately told senior administration officials that he wants to withdraw from NATO altogether, finds an explosive New York Times report:
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  Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set.
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  Most of the remarks came surrounding last summer’s contentious NATO summit in Brussels, according to the Times. The 2-day meeting which concluded on July 12 was replete with Trump’s demanding that European countries pull their own weight on defense spending in the 29-nation trans-Atlantic alliance, including what was described at the time as a “vague threat” by the president that the US could actually exit the alliance if the imbalance continues. He told reporters at the time that NATO countries must radically increase defense spending or the US “will do our own thing.”
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