Elizabeth Shackelford: Russia racks up the wins thanks to the United States
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HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:00AM – 5:00PM (CLOSED WEEKENDS and HOLIDAYS) Please submit your memoriam ad to [email protected] or call 651-228-5280. President Donald Trump said last week that he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO.
This isn’t the first time he has lambasted the defensive alliance. For what it’s worth, Congress passed a law in 2023 explicitly preventing a president from unilaterally withdrawing from the bloc. But whether or not the United States formally leaves NATO might be a matter of semantics at this point, since Trump has raised sufficient doubt about America’s commitment that NATO’s deterrent power may be irreparably harmed anyway.
Powerful alliances have always been a source of the United States’ strength. It is a gut punch to our European allies that have, at America’s urging, closely integrated their defenses with our own. But it is a triumph for Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom the demise of NATO has been a strategic priority for decades.
Some think Trump just wants to punish Europe for not supporting his war of choice with Iran or volunteering to fix the Strait of Hormuz crisis that he created, even though nothing in the NATO alliance commits our allies to such folly. But this move follows a disturbing pattern we’ve seen throughout his presidency.
Trump keeps making foreign policy proclamations and decisions that serve Putin’s interests rather than our own. This should be a fiv…