US President Donald Trump suggested in an interview with a British newspaper that the United States is considering leaving NATO over what he cast as the alliance’s lackluster military support for his war against Iran.
Asked by the right-leaning Telegraph if he would reconsider the US’ membership of NATO after the war, Trump said: “Oh yes, I would say (it’s) beyond reconsideration… I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin knows that too, by the way.”
Members of NATO, a defensive military alliance, have been reluctant to deploy military assets to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial oil shipping lane that Iran effectively closed after the US and Israel attacked it.
