The Korea Times
U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (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
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