Donald Trump accuses NATO allies of relying on U.S. taxpayers for protection while refusing to pay their fair share. He suggests that he may not honor Article 5 of the NATO treaty and recounts a conversation with an unnamed European leader. The comments are interpreted as an attack on the NATO alliance.
Donald Trump accused NATO allies of taking “advantage” of American generosity by relying on U.S. taxpayers to protect them while refusing to pay their “ fair share ” in an interview with Brexit leader Nigel Farage.
The former president and Republican frontrunner in this year’s presidential election drew the ire of the international establishment media and globalist politicians last month when he suggested that he may not honour Article 5 of the NATO treaty which requires all signatories to come to the defence of another if they come under attack. Mr Trump recounted a story during a South Carolina campaign stop of a conversation with an unnamed European leader, whom he informed that if they failed to meet their NATO spending obligations, he would not send American soldiers to die on their behalf and joked that he would even “encourage” Russia to “whatever the hell they want” under such a scenario. While NATO insiders understood the comments for the warning they were, the comments were interpreted in the legacy media as an attack on the NATO alliance itself. Touching on the press furore, the former president told Nigel Farage in anfor GB News: “What I’m saying is a form of negotiation. Why should we guard these countries that have a lot of money the United States was paying for most of NATO? When I went there, I had already had it out with them . “They then stopped paying again. But now they’re paying because of those comments that you saw two, three weeks ag
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