{"id":2410973,"date":"2025-03-07T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-trump-just-blew-nato-apart-several-members-no-longer-have-us-protection\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:00:36","slug":"bombshell-trump-just-blew-nato-apart-several-members-no-longer-have-us-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-trump-just-blew-nato-apart-several-members-no-longer-have-us-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell: Trump Just Blew NATO Apart, Several Members No Longer Have US Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbombshell-trump-just-blew-nato-apart-several-members-no-longer-have-us-protection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2410973&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump recently stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-bidens-nord-stream-2-move-opens-the-door-to-a-russian-invasion-into-ukraine\/\" title=\"ANALYSIS: Biden\u2019s Nord Stream 2 Move Opens The Door To A Russian Invasion Into Ukraine\">european nations relying<\/a> on U.S. protection without contributing \u2062thier fair share to NATO\u2064 may face serious \u2062consequences. In a\u2064 video posted to \u2064social media, Trump expressed his belief that \u2062NATO allies should not expect to be \u2063defended unless they meet their financial commitments.\u200c He highlighted past tensions regarding NATO funding and suggested \u2063that many\u200c nations have not invested sufficiently \u200bin their own defense. Trump&#8217;s remarks\u2062 indicate a\u200d continued push for NATO \u200dmembers to adhere to the alliance&#8217;s target \u200bof spending at least\u2063 2% of their GDP on defense, \u200bwith\u2064 Trump \u2062advocating for\u200d an increase to 5%. The\u2063 statements resonate amid ongoing discussions about NATO&#8217;s future and collective defense responsibilities, as voiced by \u200bNATO Secretary General Mark Rutte\u200c and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">military leaders stressing<\/a> the\u200d importance \u200dof European\u200b self-defense capabilities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday said Europeans nations that want protection without paying their  might find out to their cost that they made a bad choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/karoline-leavitt-swats-fake-news-mainstream-media-report-trumps-ukraine-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> has said nations of NATO, founded after World War II to contain the expansion of the then-Soviet Union by providing mutual defense for its members, should not expect to be rescued from their folly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, I think it&rsquo;s common sense, right?&rdquo; Trump said in a video <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DerrickEvans4WV\/status\/1897991622169596330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted to X<\/a> after being asked about whether he would make it a policy not to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/not-just-suit-can-spot-difference-hegseth-posts-nato-meeting-pic-says-one-things-not-like-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NATO<\/a> members that do not pay their fair .<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If they don&rsquo;t pay, I&rsquo;m not going to defend them. No, I&rsquo;m not going to defend them. I got into a lot of heat when I said that. They said, &lsquo;Oh no, he&rsquo;s violating NATO,&rsquo;&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#128680;BREAKING: Trump announces The United States WILL NOT defend any countries who are not paying NATO dues. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cMWrh54sJp\">pic.twitter.com\/cMWrh54sJp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerrickEvans4WV\/status\/1897991622169596330?\">March 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know the biggest problem I have with NATO? I really, I mean, I know the guys very well. They&rsquo;re friends of mine. But if the United States was in trouble, and we called them, we said, &lsquo;We got a problem, France. We got a problem, couple of others I won&rsquo;t mention.&rsquo; Do you think they&rsquo;re going to come and protect us? They&rsquo;re supposed to. I&rsquo;m not so sure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-if-nato-members-dont-pay-us-wont-defend-them-2025-03-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported that Trump noted many nations increased spending after Trump spent his first term demanding they do so, &ldquo;even now, it&rsquo;s not enough. They should be paying more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I view NATO as potentially good, but you&rsquo;ve got to get, you&rsquo;ve got to get some good thinking in NATO. It&rsquo;s very unfair, what&rsquo;s been happening,&rdquo; Trump said. according to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7265504\/trump-nato-sept-11-defense-alliance-911\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Until I came along, we were paying close to 100 percent of NATO. So think of it, we&rsquo;re paying 100 percent of their military, and they&rsquo;re screwing us on trade.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>NATO members are each expected to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-just-win-beijing-panama-canal-ports-held-chinese-entity-will-transferred-us-ownership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> has pushed for that target to be increased to 5 percent, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5181027-trump-nato-defense-pact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A chart posted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-nato-ukraine-c5fef35ca057a31a61cba6f611393999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press <\/a>showed that the U.S. is paying 3.38 percent of the GDP on defense spending, with Poland spending more than any other NATO member at just over 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain spends 2.33 percent of its GDP on defense; Germany spends 2.12 percent; and France spends 2.06 percent, the chart said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/china-canada-retaliate-trump-activates-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a>, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Belgium and Luxembourg were under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bank-of-canada-gives-out-45-million-in-raises-to-employees-after-failing-to-meet-inflation-target\/\" title=\"Bank of Canada Gives Out  Million in Raises to Employees After Failing to Meet Inflation Target\">2 percent mark<\/a>, according to the chart.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know some may have concerns about NATO&rsquo;s future,&rdquo; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday, Reuters noted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So let me be clear, the Transatlantic relationship and the Transatlantic partnership remains the bedrock of our Alliance. President Trump has made clear the commitment of the U.S. and his commitment personally to NATO, and it has also made clear the expectation that we in Europe must do more in terms of defense spending.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, who chairs NATO&rsquo;s military committee, said Europe must prepare to defend itself, according to remarks posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/opinions_230693.htm?selectedLocale=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NATO&rsquo;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Deterrence is the seven-feet-tall bouncer in front of the nightclub that makes you think twice about going in. So if we make sure we are seven feet tall, we&rsquo;re in a much better position,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said NATO&rsquo;s 2 percent rule is &ldquo;a floor&hellip; not a ceiling. 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He emphasized that NATO countries, established post-World War II to counter the Soviet Union&#8217;s growth through mutual defense, should not anticipate assistance if they fail to meet their financial obligations. In a video shared on X, Trump remarked, &#8220;It&#8217;s common sense. If they don&#8217;t pay, I won&#8217;t defend them.&#8221; He acknowledged facing criticism for this stance but maintained it was necessary. Trump also expressed skepticism about whether NATO allies would come to the U.S.&#8217;s aid in times of trouble and reiterated that many nations have increased their defense spending due to his previous demands but still need to contribute more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2410974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Donald-Trump-7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32404,32402,50459,3634,51735],"class_list":["post-2410973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-geopolitics","tag-international-relations","tag-nato-2","tag-trump","tag-us-protection"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Donald-Trump-7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410977,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410973\/revisions\/2410977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}