Trump will leave NATO -- ex Pentagon chief
Without the US to hold it up, the bloc would “collapse,” Mark Esper has told MSNBC
“I think one of the first things that would happen is he would withdraw support for Ukraine,” Esper replied. “And of course if that were to happen, the whole effort to support Ukraine in its war with Russia would eventually crumble. The United States is like the big block in the Jenga tower; you pull us out and everything collapses.”
“His next move would be to begin pulling us out of NATO, certainly troops out of NATO countries,” Esper told MSNBC. “And eventually that could cause the collapse of the alliance … and the next -- does he start looking, as he would discuss with me and others at the time – does he look to pull troops out of Korea, out of Japan, out of other countries that are allied with us?”
id like to watch it crumble.
We are the bloc... It would make sense that when 90% of the bloc leaves (US) it would cease to exist. Its a natural consequence of leaving said bloc.
That would pave the way for Putin to fix western Europe's kebab problem.
This is a little sus...Trump fired him (replaced by Miller) and in the article he states "as he (Trump) would discuss with me and others..." implying that he will be in Trump's next administration...
Fingers crossed. NATO should have been abolished in 1990s when Warsaw Pact was abolished.
I would of course be down for this as NATO is too big to be controlled, despite being largely made up of U.S. forces and tech paid for by our dollars.
NATO is nothing without us, which is good because I hate being the world's sword and shield against each other.