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President Trump said he’s strongly considering pulling the US out of NATO after the alliance failed to get behind Washington’s operation in Iran before branding it a “paper tiger.”
Trump went on to claim the transatlantic alliance was beyond “reconsideration,” adding: “I was never swayed by NATO,” the Telegraph reported Wednesday.
“I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”
President Trump said he’s strongly considering pulling the US out of Nato. REUTERSTrump claimed NATO “wasn’t there for the US” when Washington rallied behind its European allies in the face of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
“We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t our problem,” he said.
“It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.”
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