Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoTrump: I am strongly considering pulling out of NATOwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1132arrow-down1external-linkTrump: I am strongly considering pulling out of NATOwww.telegraph.co.ukParanoid Factoid@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
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-up4·7 hours agoHe can’t. He doesn’t have the authority to. Congress ratifies treaties. Congress cancels treaties.
minus-squareParanoid Factoid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours 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-up2·7 hours agoYah, that’s how its supposed to work. Except in bizarre 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 bizarre world.