Trump questioned NATO allies’ collective defense intentions while raising doubts about our treaty commitments

President Trump advised Thursday NATO Transatlantic Military Alliance led by the United States If the United States is attacked, it will not be with the help of the United States. NATO members must face military support under any aggressiveness under the collective defense clause of the Alliance Establishment Treaty.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump said: “Do you think they will come to protect us? Well. I’m not sure.”

He said in the same conversation that he would violate the treaty and send only US troops to defend NATO allies, which contributed a fair share of their domestic GDP.

The core basis of the alliance that has been established for nearly 80 years is Article 5 of the NATO Founding Treaty. According to the article, if any NATO state becomes a victim of an armed attack, other members will consider it an attack on all members and will “take what they deem necessary” to assist.

Article 5 was cited only once in NATO’s history, on September 12, 2001, when Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people in its unprecedented terrorist attacks on Washington and New York.

In the subsequent U.S.-led invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. NATO allies lost more than 1,000 soldiers in 20 years of combat. Britain alone lost 642 members of the armed forces.

More than 7,000 members of the U.S. Armed Forces were killed during the same period, according to Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

President Trump talks about the United States in answering a question if the United States does not give the defense of NATO partners who he believes are giving a fair share of their defense.

The president has long believed that the United States has taken an undue burden and spent more money to secure Europe’s defense than NATO members on the NATO mainland, and he is now pushing these members to increase their domestic defense spending to at least 5% of GDP.

“I said, if you don’t pay, we won’t defend… If you don’t pay the bill, we won’t defend you.”

Mr. Trump asked 5% of U.S. NATO allies to spend much more than the U.S. pays. Currently, the United States allocates about 3% of its GDP to defense every year, one relative to other NATO countries, but not the highest.

According to data compiled by the Washington Atlantic Commission think tank, Poland has the highest relative to its GDP. Ukraine. Then, after the United States, Greece and many NATO countries were on the eastern edge of democratic Europe, closest to Ukraine, in addition to Russia, the Nordic state.

Over the past decade, European NATO members and Canada have increased their collective spending in 2014 from 1.43% in 2014 to 2.02% in 2024, but many individual countries still haven’t reached the 5% demanded by Mr. Trump. Some people have not even reached 2% of the current GDP spending threshold set by the league as target.

Polish president Andrzej Duda said on Thursday that he proposed in a social media post to provide at least 3% of GDP spending for all NATO members.

Friedrich Merz Possible next German leaderalso announced plans for this week to raise hundreds of billions of dollars in defense and infrastructure spending.

Mr. Trump’s remarks came at the end of the week, and his administration seemed to question the contributions of U.S. NATO allies, making European feathers wrinkled.

In a sharp comment Thursday, President Emmanuel Macron said France and the United States were “loyal and loyal allies” and that France had “respect and friendship” to the United States.

“I think we have the right to expect the same thing,” Macron said.

Vance spoke in anger from Britain and France, claiming not targeting them

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Vice President JD Vance appears to have weakened the value of military donations from major U.S. allies while discussing a proposed mineral deal between Ukraine and the United States.

Vance said the potential economic agreement the White House forced Kiev to strive to sign “is a better security guarantee than the 20,000 soldiers of a random country that did not engage in war for 30 or 40 years.”

The comments have aroused the anger of French and British politicians – the only two countries so far say they may send troops to maintain peace under a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Although Vance later appeared to return to his speech on social media, he said that both countries have fought side by side with the United States for the past 20 years, and that he did not “even mention Britain or France” in the interview, but diplomatic losses are caused.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far right, condemned Vance’s comments, defending the “little memory” of the French army, saying: “So no patriot would say that our country is ordinary.”

“The disrespect shown by the new U.S. vice president who died in our service staff is unacceptable,” said British MP Ben Obese-Impty, a former British military official who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday to CBS News’ partner network News.

“If he wasn’t talking about Britain and France, it would be hard to see who he was talking about.”