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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the
North Atlantic Alliance, is an
intergovernmental
military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The
organization implements the
North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.[3][4]
NATO constitutes a system of
collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to mutual
defence in response to an attack by any external party.
NATO’s Headquarters are located in
Haren,
Brussels,
Belgium, while the
headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near
Mons,
Belgium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
-- 2017 --
April 12: Trump said, "I had previously said that NATO was obsolete
because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they
have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror
threats.". ... Trump strongly implies that NATO acted because of his
concerns. ... But experts agree that nothing of the sort happened. NATO
involvement in counter-terrorism issued its first formal declaration on
terrorism in 1980, and it became a significant issue for the alliance on Sept.
11, 2001, said Lisa Sawyer Samp, a senior fellow in the international security
program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/16/donald-trump/donald-trump-mischaracterizes-nato-change-and-his-/
April 12: Germany's commitment to the defense alliance [NATO] has become
a major sticking point between Merkel and Trump....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/politics/obama-germany-angela-merkel-trump/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
May 15:
NATO Frantically Tries to Trump-Proof President’s First Visitz
A ‘freaked-out’ NATO braces for Donald Trump’s first meeting of the
transatlantic alliance.
NATO is scrambling to tailor its upcoming meeting
to avoid taxing President Donald Trump’s notoriously short attention span. The
alliance is telling heads of state to limit talks to two to four minutes at a
time during the discussion, several sources inside NATO and former senior U.S.
officials tell Foreign Policy.
And the alliance scrapped plans to publish the traditional full post-meeting
statement meant to crystallize NATO’s latest strategic stance.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/15/nato-frantically-tries-to-trump-proof-presidents-first-visit-alliance-europe-brussels/?utm_content=buffer4a47d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
May 23: Public support for the North
Atlantic Treaty Alliance has generally improved in the U.S., Europe and Canada,
according to a
newly released poll from the Pew Research Center. ... after an April meeting
with NATO's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg,
Trump declared: "I said it [NATO] was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/23/529547508/poll-shows-increased-support-for-nato-on-both-sides-of-the-atlantic
-- 2018 --
July 3:
Donald Trump attacks NATO allies and threatens Angela Merkel
Nato members committed to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on
national defence at a 2014 summit in Wales, and Trump has repeatedly lambasted
Nato allies for not fulfilling the commitment.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/982941/Donald-Trump-attacks-NATO-allies-threatens-Angela-Merkel-alter-US-military-presence-news
July 11: President
Donald Trump on Wednesday
demanded that America's NATO allies raise their domestic defense spending levels
to 2 percent "immediately" instead of by 2024, as NATO had previously agreed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/trump-demands-nato-countries-meet-defense-spending-goals-immediately.html
July 12: President Donald Trump capped off
his two-day visit at NATO headquarters on Thursday by boldly declaring that all
NATO members agreed to increase their defense spending after he told them he was
“extremely unhappy.”
https://wreg.com/2018/07/12/trump-nato-allies-agreed-to-boost-defense-spending-after-his-pressure/
July 12: Trump’s False Claims at NATO
[Among other false statements] NATO countries did increase defense spending in
2015 and 2016, but Trump falsely claimed that “prior to last year” their defense
spending went down “very substantially.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/07/trumps-false-claims-at-nato/
July 12: Trump's barrage of attacks 'beyond
belief,' reeling NATO diplomats say
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/11/politics/trump-nato-diplomats-reaction/index.html
July 18:
Just a week after
rattling NATO countries in Europe, President Donald Trump once again put
America’s commitment to the alliance in doubt on Tuesday night.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/18/17585984/trump-nato-montenegro-russia-carlson
July 18: Why President Trump's
Comments About Montenegro Were a Win for Vladimir Putin
Trump’s skepticism towards [NATO] Article 5 aligns with his distrust of
multinational organizations in general, from the United Nations to the World
Trade Organization. But NATO, first formed to counter potential Soviet
aggression in Europe, is seen by many as a check on Russian ambitions in Eastern
Europe under a leader who has demonstrated a willingness to annex territory
through military might. And Montenegro, a small Balkan nation southwest of
Serbia, is considered particularly vulnerable.
http://time.com/5341790/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-montenegro-nato/
July 19:
On Tuesday evening, in an
interview on Fox News, Trump used Montenegro to take a swipe at NATO.
When anchor Tucker Carlson asked why the U.S. should send troops to defend a
small country such as Montenegro if it were attacked, Trump replied: “I
understand what you’re saying, I’ve asked the same question. Montenegro is a
tiny country with very strong people. They are very aggressive people, they may
get aggressive, and congratulations, you’re in World War III. But that’s the way
it [NATO] was set up.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-montenegro-aggressive-responds-criticism/
July 19: The country of Montenegro is not
happy about being called
“aggressive” by President Donald Trump.
On Thursday, it clapped back.
Montenegro released an
official statement making clear that it is a peace-loving country that also
can defend itself and that it is not, as Trump
had suggested
in an interview on Tuesday, about to start World War III.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17590234/montenegro-trump-tucker-carlson-nato-world-war-iii
July 26: Why Eastern European countries
aren’t attacking Trump over NATO
They’re on the front lines of Russian aggression. But Eastern Europe’s leaders
won’t openly criticize Trump over NATO and Putin.
For countries that were under Moscow’s sway for decades after World War II and
continue to face pressure from their huge eastern neighbor, putting a rubber
stamp on Trump’s coziness to Putin might seem paradoxical, even shocking.
What’s going on here?
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/26/17614600/trump-nato-putin-summit-eastern-europe-criticism-response-reaction-poland-montenegro
July 26: Bipartisan bill would prevent Trump
from exiting NATO without Senate approval
The legislation also gives the Senate Legal Counsel the ability to take the
administration to court if it attempts to withdraw from the military alliance
without the Senate's say-so.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/legislation-nato-senate-approval/index.html
July 27: Trump launches fresh tirade against
Nato and Germany during incoherent speech to US steel workers
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-nato-germany-uk-steel-workers-speech-russia-europe-a8466081.html
July 27: Trump's attacks on NATO are 'like a
gift' to Putin, a former US Army leader in Europe says, but Putin still has his
own reasons to worry
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-is-gaining-from-trumps-nato-attacks-former-us-army-leader-says-2018-7?r=UK&IR=T
July 27: Trump Seeks to Revive 'Arab NATO'
to Confront Iran
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-07-27/trump-seeks-to-revive-arab-nato-to-confront-iran
July 27: One of Donald Trump’s favorite
talking points is that our NATO allies have been “delinquent” in their financial
commitments. That’s always been wrong – it reflects fundamental confusion about
how the alliance works – and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) pressed Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo about this on Wednesday.
“That’s a misnomer, is it not?” Corker asked, referring to the president’s
rhetoric. Pompeo
conceded, “That’s correct.”
It was a memorable moment: the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and the president’s secretary of State agreed publicly that
a frequent Trump claim about NATO is just wrong.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-new-criticisms-nato-dont-make-any-sense
August 22:
Trump Confirms He Threatened to Withdraw from NATO
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/trump-confirms-he-threatened-to-withdraw-from-nato
November 12:
Trump Renews Attacks on NATO and Trade Imbalances
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/politics/trump-nato-trade.html
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