txags92 said:
Nothing says we have to leave NATO. But how about we just start taking our bases out of the countries that are opposing us and move them somewhere more friendly. Stop spending money on the others and move all of their orders for equipment and supplies to the back of the queue for purchase.
It would absolutely be simpler/easier to withdraw from nato, if Democrats weren't so aligned with the censorship/TDS/war complex in Europe that this is a non-starter legally at the time being (in congress). Still, moving our forces out of hostile countries like the UK, Spain, Germany, etc. does make an immense amount of sense.
That they are quasi-hostile trading partners doesn't belie the fact that we have no duty to station troops there/support their economies. Again, our great 'allies' the French happily kicked us out/left the military planning parts of Nato in the 60's and yet then came crawling back to 'nato' later on (mid-90's) when they saw it as advantageous again for their economic/military sales etc.
If things change, and the treaty organization still exists in our absence decades down the road (which it likely wouldn't without our supervision) , maybe it will make sense to re-join, I dunno.
Nato today protects zero American interests, period, and threatens many others.