NATO ’disintegrating’ after Donald Trump pulls 5,000 troops out of Europe
NATO is at risk of ‘disintegrating’ after Donald Trump withdraws 5,000 troops from Germany following disputes over the Iran war.
The US President has repeatedly criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over claims that the US had been ‘humiliated’.
Merz said Iranian leaders were ‘negotiating very skillfully, denouncing the lack of a US exit strategy’ and had humiliated the US when it got officials to travel to Pakistan for talks with no real result at the end.
In a rant on Truth Social, Trump then accused Merz of tolerating a nuclear-armed Iran, telling him he needed to ‘fix his broken country’.
Following this, Germany’s defense minister Boris Pistorius has said Europeans must take greater responsibility for their own security.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned NATO is ‘disintegrating’.
He wrote on social media: ‘The greatest threat to the transatlantic community is not its external enemies, but the ongoing disintegration of our alliance.
‘We must all do what it takes to reverse this disastrous trend.’
A NATO spokesperson said the alliance was working with the US to understand the details of the decision.
Merz is among many European leaders who have been on the receiving end of Trump’s rants.
Even UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was told he was no ‘Winston Churchill’ after he initially refused to let the US use British bases for Iranian attacks.
Starmer also said he did not support a NATO operation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump has talked for years about reducing the American military presence in Germany, and has criticized NATO for its refusal to assist Washington in the war, which began on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Mr. Trump wrote Wednesday on social media that the US was reviewing possible troop reductions in Germany, with a “determination” to be made soon.
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