Favoring Foes Over Friends, Trump Threatens to Upend International Order
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 11, 2024
Soon after former President Donald J. Trump took office, his staff explained how NATO’s mutual defense obligations worked.
“You mean, if Russia attacked Lithuania, we would go to war with Russia?” he responded. “That’s crazy.”
Mr. Trump has never believed in the fundamental one-for-all-and-all-for-one concept of the Atlantic alliance. Indeed, he spent much of his four-year presidency undermining it while strong-arming members into keeping their commitments to spend more on their own militaries . . .
