NATO in “save-what-you-can” mode after new attacks and threats of withdrawal from Donald Trump – Le Temps

One more blow in the transatlantic relationship which seems to be hanging by a thread! Angry at not being supported by the Europeans in the conflict in the Middle East, the Trump administration is increasingly vocal against NATO. After the “minister of war” Pete Hegseth, it was the American Secretary of State who went into his litany. On Fox News, Marco Rubio was sharper than ever. “There is unfortunately no doubt that once this conflict is over, we will have to re-examine this relationship. We will have to re-examine the interest that NATO presents for our country,” he said. But above all, Donald Trump drives the point home in an interview published Wednesday in the British daily The Telegraphhours before a highly anticipated address to the nation regarding an “important update” on Iran. The President of the United States says he is “seriously considering” withdrawing the United States from NATO. “I have never been convinced by NATO. I always knew it was a paper tiger and Putin knows it too, by the way,” he added.

“A one-way street”