Trump is back and is about to run for the United States again. Moreover, there is a high probability that he will defeat Biden and be re-elected.
During Trump's last term, he constantly made discontent with NATO. Before this election, he openly put forward the idea of leading the United States to withdraw from NATO after being elected.
Trump's view is very bizarre, that is, in order to maintain the security of NATO and NATO allies, the United States has paid too much military spending, dragging down the American economy. The United States should withdraw from NATO and concentrate on the economy, so that the United States will be great again and the people will live a good life. The core of making America great again is in Trump's concept of making money.
This point reminds us of Boris Yeltsin before the collapse of the Soviet Union, whose point was also that Russia had done too much for the other small countries of the Soviet Union and its socialist allies, dragging down the Russian economy. Therefore, it is necessary to disintegrate the former Soviet Union, improve relations with the West, and revive Russia's economy. Let the common Russians live a good life.
The United States withdrew from NATO, and without the leading big brother, NATO will definitely disintegrate. The security order around the world will be reshaped.
Similarly, without NATO, the United States, the hegemony of the dollar and technology will cease to exist without military support. It will not be great again, it will not be richer. Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows this.
So doesn't Trump know this truth?Or is Trump threatening allies with more military spending?
Although the United States bears a considerable part of the military expenses for the stationing of troops in NATO, on the other hand, the allies of the United States also help the United States bear a huge share of the support of the US military. maintains a global presence of U.S. troops. Is Trump's withdrawal from NATO a preparation for disarmament?Or do you still have to talk one-on-one with countries that have US troops on military spending?Without organizational discipline, how can a scattered alliance guarantee that it will not be divided and disintegrated by other countries?
And without military alliances and security agreements, without the status of the boss, how can we ensure that our allies can listen to the United States economically?If you want to embargo lithography machines on China, will the Netherlands still be obedient?To jointly boycott Chinese products, can allies unite one by one?
However, it is clear that Trump has spoken out, and it is certainly not without purpose to go from criticizing NATO to directly proposing to withdraw from NATO. We'll see.
After all, it was impossible for Yeltsin not to know that he did not have the status of the boss in the Soviet Federation and the countries of the socialist allies, and was qualified to talk about cooperation and development with the West
Some things in history are just so weird.