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TheBlackAdder

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Thu Mar 6, 2025, 01:36 PM Mar 2025

Trump is BUTT HURT. Will he pull the US out of NATO now? [View all]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nato-2671282462/

One of the key components of the NATO alliance is Article V, which calls on all NATO allies to unite and engage in a collective defense. The only country that has involved Article V is the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Now President Donald Trump is looking to put conditions on it.

On Thursday, NBC News reported that "three current and former senior U.S. officials and one congressional official" are saying that Trump's next goal is to impose new mandates on a key NATO component.

In the past, Trump has falsely implied that countries send a check to fund NATO and some countries aren't sending enough, CNN said in a fact-check. He's alleged countries aren't paying their “bills,” “dues” or “NATO fees." The fact-check also recalled Trump saying that the NATO countries “owe us a tremendous amount of money” or that they “owe NATO billions of dollars.”



Or will he just make onerous demands for them to repay the USA for $200 Trillion?
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