Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTrump: I am strongly considering pulling out of NATOwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down18file-text
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Archive: https://archive.is/2026.04.01-130951/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-strongly-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato/
minus-squarefavoredponcho@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoHe can’t. He doesn’t have the authority to. Congress ratifies treaties. Congress cancels treaties.
minus-squareParanoid Factoid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoThere was also legislation in 2023 to prevent a potential future Trump Administration from exiting out of NATO without 2/3 Senate approval or an act of congress. Ironically, it was sponsored by then Senator Marco Rubio. https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/can-donald-trump-withdraw-the-us-from-nato
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 day agoYah, that’s how its supposed to work. Except in bizarro world.
He can’t. He doesn’t have the authority to. Congress ratifies treaties. Congress cancels treaties.
There was also legislation in 2023 to prevent a potential future Trump Administration from exiting out of NATO without 2/3 Senate approval or an act of congress. Ironically, it was sponsored by then Senator Marco Rubio.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/can-donald-trump-withdraw-the-us-from-nato
Yah, that’s how its supposed to work. Except in bizarro world.