« If the American withdrawal of NATO was progressive and well organized, the alliance could continue to function » – Liberation

He had already judged it « obsolete » In 2016 before reversing during his first mandate. But since his 2024 campaign and his return to the White House, Donald Trump reiterates his threats against the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) and suggests that a withdrawal from the United States of the Alliance is on the table. In the viewfinder of the Republican billionaire: sharing too unequal in his eyes of the Budgetary Budget of Defense, to the detriment of Washington. In 2014, the Allies were committed to spending at least 2 % of their GDP in La Défense, but in 2024, only about twenty from countries-whose United States has achieved this goal. Camille Grand, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, now a researcher at the European Council for International Relations (ECFR), analysis for Release What would be the implications of an American withdrawal and the possible scenarios for the Alliance.

Since when has the President of the United States uttering these threats of withdrawal?

Donald Trump has always had reserves on alliances. As early as 1987, when he was in New York real estate and the Jet-set, he already published advertising in the American press denouncing disadvantaged partnerships for the United States and he accused some countries not to pay for their share in terms of defense. But the fact that these dreams