re: Trump Threatens to Ignore NATO Treaty if Unhappy with Member Dues. Thoughts?

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NATO has outlived it's usefulness

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This statement always makes me chuckle. All member nations are more pro-alliance than ever, but a subset of the American right is convinced that it serves no purpose and has no value.

Not even Trump believes that. He’s just telling them to meet their obligations. There is enormous value in the inter-operability etc that NATO provides in a more efficient way than if we had to just conduct bilateral agreements with NATO’s member states.

It needs fixing in a number of ways, especially in the domestic spending requirements, but the United States does in fact benefit from NATO membership.