Are the USA and Europe heading for a Divorce?

[SunnyinBangrak]

On 3/7/2025 at 11:39 PM, sharot724 said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/07/zelensky-approval-rating-up-10-points-since-trump-attacks/

So up to 110%. Marvellous.  I'm going to change my election cheating avatar to a blue and yellow flag. 

[MicroB]

On 3/3/2025 at 7:30 AM, black tabby12345 said:

 

Hi, thank you for your post.

So there is some sort of  "Loophole", Trump can take advantage of, when he wants to quit NATO. 

But at the same time, US congress  can serve the "Buttress against it; by taking their president to the (supreme) court?

 

 

He can de facto uncouple from NATO by stopping US contributions to the NATO budget (at the moment, the US matches German contribution), making it delinquent. The US has already said it will not be participating in planning for upcoming exercises, so we can assume that the United States militry will no longer be participating in NATO exercises. This will mean that staff officers, irrespective of their views on the topic, will have to essentially say that US and NATO will lack interoperability capabilities fairly soon, resulting in a cessation of two-way working. It then becomes moot whether a US President is willing to respond to an Article 5 request. Ghe US will quickly lose the capability to respond in any meaningful way, and also the other way. If there is another mass casualty event in the US on the scale of 911, its unlikely  that any NATO member would have the ability to respond and help. UK MOD started planning for this 18 months ago.