Trump threatens to withdraw the United States from NATO

US President Donald Trump said today in an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph that he does not rule out withdrawing his country from NATO, an organization that he once again defined as “a paper tiger.” “I was never excited about NATO. I always knew it was a paper tiger, and Putin knows it too, by the way,” he said.

Trump’s words prompted an immediate reaction from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who stated that NATO remains “the most effective military alliance the world has ever seen,” and stressed that it will continue to defend British interests “despite the noise.”

He made the threat of withdrawal after a question from the right-leaning British newspaper about whether he would reconsider his country’s membership in the Atlantic bloc, of which the United States was a founding member in 1949 and is the main contributor.

“Ah yes, I would say that this is already beyond reconsideration. I was never excited about NATO,” and he outlined his complaints about the organization: “We were there automatically, including (the war in) Ukraine. Ukraine was not our problem. It was a test, and we were there, as we would always have been there for them. But they were not there for us,” he said.