President Trump suggested on Thursday that members American Military Alliance, which ruled the United States, Transatlantic Alliance The US will not come to the rescue when America is attacked. NATO members are obliged to support in the military mode before any aggression provided by the collective defense provision in the establishment of the Alliance contract.
“Do you think they are going to come and protect us? Hmm.
In the same conversation, he stated that he would violate the contract and send only US troops to protect NATO allies, which he considers to be a fair share of their national GDP into his defense budgets.
The main basis on which the nearly 80-year alliance is built is Article 5 of the NATO Foundation Treaty. According to this article, if any NATO nation becomes a victim of an armed attack, other members will consider it as an attack on all members and “bring actions that are necessary” to assist.
Article 5 was caused only once in NATO history, and it was September 12, 2001, a day after al-Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people in unprecedented terrorism on Washington and New York.
In invasions under the leadership of the United States, which took place in Iraq and Afghanistan, US allies Nata Cumulatively lost more than 1000 troops in the battle for the 20-year period. Only Britain lost 642 members of its armed forces.
More than 7,000 members of the US Armed Forces were killed in the same period, the University of International and State Affairs Institute of International and State Affairs reports.
President Trump said in response to a question about whether the US would defend NATO partners if they do not pay what he considers them a fair share against his own defense.
The president has long claimed that the US is carrying excess load, spending more to ensure Europe's protection than NATO members on the continent, and now it is striving to increase the cost of domestic protection at least 5% of its Air Force.
“I said that if you are not going to pay, we're not going to defend … If you are not going to pay your accounts, we're not going to defend you,” Mr. Trump said.
5% defense costs Mr. Trump demanded a much greater share from NATO allies in America than what the US pays. Currently, the United States allocates about 3% of its GDP to defense annually, one of the more NATO countries, but not the highest.
According to the Atlantic Board of the Analytical Tank in Washington, The highest fineRelatively its GDP is Poland that shares a long border with Ukraine. Then, after the United States, Greece and a number of NATO countries come directly in the eastern edge of the democratic Europe, closest to Ukraine and, for it, Russia, along with the northern powers.
Over the last decade, members of the European NATO and Canada have steadily increased their collective defense costs with 1.43% of their combined GDP in 2014, up to 2.02% in 2024, according to NATO's website -but many individual states still do not match 5% of the mark. Some still don't even have to match 2% GDP costs that are currently set as an Alliance's goal.
Polish President Andersi Duda said on Thursday that he offered a minimum of 3% of GDP for all NATO members In a message on social networks.
Friedrich Merz, probably the next German leaderHe also announced the plan this week to raise hundreds of billions of additional protection and infrastructure costs when he takes office.
Mr. Trump's comments occurred at the end of the week when his administration broke European feathers, being questioned by the contribution of America's allies in America.
On Thursday Thursday, President Emmanuel Macron said that France and the US were “loyal and faithful allies” and that France had “respect and friendship” for the United States.
“I think we have the right to wait the same,” Macron said
Vance Irks UK and France with the note he claims was not directed at them
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Vice President J. D. Hae as appears
Vnes said the potential economic deal that the White House pushed Kiev is difficult to sign: “” This is a better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from a random country that has not waged a war over 30 or 40. “
These comments have caused indignation of politicians in France and UK – only two countries who still stated that they could send troops to help keep peace under the ceasefire in Ukraine.
While Vens later seemed to go to his remarks on social media, saying that both countries “fought against the United States” and that he did not “even mention the UK or France” in an interview, diplomatic damage was inflicted.
France's far -right leader Marine le -peen convict Vnes' comments, defending the “noble memory” of French troops and say that “therefore there will be no patriot to say that our country is ordinary.”
UK Member of Parliament Ben Ottuz-In Indione, a former British army officer who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, said BBC News News BBC News on Tuesday: “The respect that the new Vice President of the United States has shown to the victims of our officials.”
“It's hard to understand who he was talking about when he did not talk about Britain and France,” Obesity said.
