💬 Opinion 11h ago · Jed Babbin

Trump’s NATO Dilemma

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President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for our NATO allies. In the past month or so, he has called them “cowards” and NATO a “paper tiger.” But, as I have written elsewhere, his notion that we should just get out of NATO is blocked by both the NATO Treaty and by a specific U.S. law that requires either a resolution passed by both houses of Congress or a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Neither is going to happen.
Mr. Trump, as commander-in-chief, has constitutional authority to remove t

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