![]() ![]() Trump was purportedly annoyed, in particular, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her country's military spending of 1 percent of its GDP.Īt the time, then-Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and White House National Security Adviser John Bolton struggled to stick to American strategy without mentioning the potential withdrawal that would inevitably undermine Washington's influence in Europe and embolden Russia, the newspaper wrote. But at another leaders meeting during the same summit, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg praised Washington's example and suggested that European member states follow suit - Trump was allegedly taken by surprise. POTUS was allegedly frustrated with the fact that his transatlantic allies would not, on the spot, pledge to donate more. ![]() The New York Times report suggests that Trump complained about Europe's failure to meet defence spending goals, thus leaving the US to "carry an outsize burden". John McCain Backs Bill to Block Trump From Exiting NATO Without Senate's Consentĭays ahead of a NATO summit in Brussels last summer, Trump purportedly questioned the alliance's raison d'être while speaking to senior national security officials, describing it as an exhausting burden on the United States. ![]() READ MORE: Trump Advisor Bolton Says Groundwork Being Laid for Anti-Iranian 'Arab NATO'Īlthough the unnamed sources said that they were not sure if Trump was serious, they allegedly feared that POTUS would return to his threat as other alliance member states failed to boost their military donations to NATO and reach the spending target set by the bloc. Over the course of 2018, US President Donald Trump repeatedly expressed a willingness to withdraw from NATO, The New York Times reported, citing current and former senior administration officials. had altered his ideas about the place, Bolton, rather than seizing the chance to mollify skeptics, replied, “Not really.” The head counters in the White House withdrew the nomination, and Bolton headed back to neocon central at the American Enterprise Institute.Since taking office in 2017, Donald Trump has on a multitude of occasions slammed NATO member states for failing to meet their annual defence spending obligations and insisted on fair burden-sharing. When one Republican senator asked him whether his year and a half in the U.N. In the second round of hearings, Bolton behaved even more obnoxiously than in the first. But the law allowing this evasion gave the Senate a chance to take a vote 18 months later. #Trump in panic mode fullFinally, in a tie vote, the committee sent Bolton’s nomination to the full Senate “ without recommendation.” Properly fearing that this foretold a rejection on the floor, Bush gave Bolton the job as a “recess appointment” after Congress went on holiday. In his confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bolton put on a dreadful show, grumbling and scowling through his walrus mustache. How could someone with these views serve as the U.S. These might be quaint notions for some eccentric midlevel aide to espouse, but the United Nations is founded on international law, Security Council resolutions are drafted to enforce international law, and-as even Bush was beginning to realize by the start of his second term, around the time of Bolton’s nomination-some of those resolutions were proving useful for expressing, and sometimes enforcing, U.S. ![]()
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