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Today let's talk about the remarks of the former US ** Trump about wanting to "blow up" NATO. This point of view is really groundbreaking, a former US politician who is seeking to run for the next US ** actually wants to "blow up" the NATO organization founded and led by the United States, what is the situation?
Bolton, who recently served as an assistant to the United States during the Trump period, said in an interview that if Trump is re-elected to the United States, he will try to truly eliminate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that he wanted to withdraw from. It was during this interview that he first revealed that Trump intended to "blow up" NATO when he was in power. As we talked about in the previous show, a while ago the former US ** Trump publicly said that he might encourage Russia to attack any NATO member that fails to meet its financial obligations. As soon as this incident came out, NATO member states, especially some countries in Europe, had already begun a so-called war of words with Trump, and even some European members suspected that Trump's ghost had surfaced at the European Security Conference.
You may wonder why you say that as a former American **, why do you have such a big opinion about NATO? I think Trump is feeling, or has felt, that NATO is a burden to the United States. The United States is the leader of NATO, which is known to the whole world, but Trump has repeatedly criticized some NATO member countries, especially European countries, for failing to reach 2% of their GDP in defense spending, so he said in his recent campaign public speech that he will not only not protect those countries that have not invested enough in the field of defense, but will also encourage Russia to attack them. Then you see that we have also analyzed this before, which is a bit excessive.
But if you're going to "blow up" NATO, it's too extreme horror. But he did say this, this is what Bolton, the former assistant for affairs in the United States, said, saying that when he was attending a NATO summit in Brussels, when Trump was about to speak, he suddenly asked him if we should make history and withdraw from NATO? In short, whether it is "blown up" or withdrawn, anyway, what Trump means is, I want to be elected as the United States, and I will not play with NATO.
We know that this Trump wants to do something with NATO, not for a year or two. Recently I saw a report that as early as 20 years ago, around 2000, Trump wrote in a book that he said that withdrawing from NATO would save the United States millions of dollars a year. So you see that people are really looking at the interests of the United States, and of course this is only economic and commercial interests. In 2016, when the first time was **, Trump also kept saying that he asked NATO members to increase defense spending, that is, to reach at least 2% of GDP.
In fact, Trump's thinking is very simple, that is, he thinks that the United States leads the organization of NATO, but the United States pays too much. It's Trump's mouth, he sometimes doesn't feel particularly accurate about numbers. He said that the United States pays close to 100% for NATO. I don't think that's accurate. I checked the data, and in 2023, the share of the United States in NATO's military spending is about 2 3,68%, and the United States' direct contribution to NATO is now only 16%, what is the concept? In line with Germany.
And you ask people to say that this defense spending reaches a higher percentage of GDP, and the United States itself is not the highest, he is now only 3.5% and Poland is 39%。So let's not fully believe Trump, it's that his mouth sometimes speaks that the number is out of the mark. But his remarks mean that the so-called "blowing up" of NATO, the United States withdraws from NATO, and that influence is enough. So if you look at Trump, sometimes it's really to make a lip service, it's really to cause repercussions, to cause this influence, he is a typical American, I'm not responsible for what I say, I just hope I can be popular. I can say anything for the sake of fire.
After his remarks, then everyone knows that this is too exaggerated, this United States is the current ** first, the White House and Biden are already on fire, as early as February this year, in order to combat Trump, the Democratic Party seized this so-called remarks about NATO, and now Biden's team has placed advertisements in many places to criticize Trump's remarks on not fulfilling NATO's collective defense obligations, which is to seize this point. Then you are not a qualified **, you do not fulfill the obligation of collective defense, you are irresponsible to the allies, to the free world, the United States affectionately calls the free world.
So as you know, the Munich Security Conference is being held recently, and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the meeting that if Trump is re-elected, he will not hesitate to withdraw from NATO, so Hillary urged the delegates attending the Munich Security Conference to seriously discuss Trump's tough remarks, that is, if Trump is elected, even if the United States does not withdraw from NATO, Trump may refuse to provide funds, so if this continues, the United States only exists in name for this organization, and NATO will not be able to operate.
So you can see that as things stand, Trump's rhetoric has managed to cause controversy and controversy, and that's one of his purposes. Then the allies of Europe are also very scary, because everyone knows that this European country is also very concerned about the United States**, who can be elected. This was also said by the current NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who said that any proposal that the allies would not defend each other would undermine our security, including that of the United States, and put American and European soldiers at greater risk. So when it comes to the United States' ** this year, he also said, you see this politician is more rigorous in his speech, he said that I expect that no matter who wins **, the United States will still be a strong and loyal ally of NATO. That's what politicians say, but it's not necessarily the case. If Trump is elected, I really don't know what will happen to this role of NATO for the United States in other ways.
Therefore, I think Trump's remarks about the so-called "blowing up" withdrawal from NATO are definitely not the so-called source of water, he must have his own thoughts and ideas behind it, which will add a lot of variables to future international political, economic, and military relations. Of course, we also admit that because it is a critical period for the election campaign, it is not excluded that Trump will say some irresponsible words for the sake of the so-called election campaign, so now the situation looks like a politician like Trump in the United States before this year, and a politician like Trump will definitely release a lot of rumors, but which sentence is true, it is really not necessarily.