«I am seriously thinking about leaving “, he explained in an interview with the British newspaper Telegraph. The US president that the alliance is a “paper tiger”. According to him, he is not expected to reconsider: “I would say that it is beyond any reconsideration.”
He also invokes Putin
“I was never influenced by NATO. I always knew he was a paper tiger, and Putin knows that, by the way,” Trump said.
The US president claimed that the US was doing its duty to protect Ukraine, even though it was not America’s problem.
“We were there, including Ukraine. Ukraine was not our problem. It was a trial and we were there for them and we will always be there for them. But he wasn’t there for us.”
These statements come to seal that the American government has taken a course of disengagement from NATO, as the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of State Maro Rubio and of course Donald Trump himself have stated or implied in the last few days.
