Trump Keeps Saying He Wants to Leave NATO. Maybe He Already Has.

Dr. Major is a political scientist who specializes in trans-Atlantic security. She wrote from Berlin.

President Trump is very, very disappointed in NATO. He has been critical of the alliance for years, but the refusal of other members to participate in the war in Iran seems to have finally sunk his sense of its worth to zero — perhaps permanently. “I was never swayed by NATO,” he told a British newspaper in April. “I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” he said.

Last week Pentagon officials announced that they were pulling 5,000 troops out of Germany, after a spat between Mr. Trump........

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