With a number of NATO officials continuing to complain that President Trump is too close to Russia, the White House today announced that Trump will be attending a NATO summit in May, and that the visit will reaffirm his “strong commitment to NATO.”
This will mark the first summit President Trump will have attended, and the announcement comes just days after the announcement that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be skipping a foreign minister-level meeting in early April because of a visit from the president of China.
Allegations of contact between the Trump campaign and Russia has been a source of controversy within the US, and that has extended overseas, with a lot of NATO members issuing statements warning Trump against having good relations with Russia.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis dismissed NATO “concerns,” insisting that the Trump Administration had been strengthening the US-NATO relationship, and that “the bond is getting stronger.” Mattis attended a defense minister-level NATO meeting last month, and is the only high-ranking administration official to have done so so far.
There’s no doubt whatsoever that the US is firmly committed to Nato. Anything that Trump said during his campaign was just uninformed nonsense.
Good that Trump will attend a Nato meeting. Anything he says can only be damaging to Nato and those countries relationship to the US.
Nato must be very concerned about the US’s loose cannon shooting off his mouth and doing damage to the cause. Trump won’t be kept under control, pretty well for certain.
Good!
There is no logical reason for us to be firmly committed to NATO . The fake news service has always called NATO the international community. It is only a club of criminal countries that bully little countries and break agreed upon international laws . They think they can get away this crime because they are a big group in the UN .
And embarrass himself in front of the world by flip-flopping on his statements during the campaign? One way to show the world that NATO is a useless waste of money is by not attending some pointless NATO circus.
NATO the North American terrorist organization . I thought Trump was going to finish NATO off by insisting every body pay 2% of their GDP to finance and support our NATO terrorist activities around the world . The worry is supposed to be that Russia might try to recapture Their communist empire again But it more looks like NATO more wants to establish the former NAZI empire again . NATO has supported the same people the NAZIs supported in destroying Yugoslavia And now has stirred up the same BALTIC and Ukrainian people to go against the Same NAZI enemies of Russia and China .
I hope trump keeps pushing for the European members of NATO to pay up . This might just be enough to finish NATO . I cant see how he expects other countries to pay us for the troops we station in their countries when most everyone wants us to leave their country .