Musk reiterated the support of the US with NATO, paying for Europe's defense does not make sense to him

Washington. The richest man of the world and close advisor US President Donald Trump Elon Musk on Sunday on his social network he expressed in favor of the United States' performance NATO.

At the same time, he noted that the US should not pay Europe. Bloomberg wrote about it.

Muska who was born in South Africa And he also has Canadian and American citizenship, Trump commissioned the group management to streamline the state administration.

The richest man of the world has commented on NATO membership in response to the contribution he called for withdrawal from the North Atlantic Alliance. « We really should. It makes no sense for America to pay for Europe's defense, » Musk said.

Common sense of Donald Trump

Musk already said on March 3 on the same platform that he agreed to the proposal of a conservative commentator who said the US should leave both NATO and UN, Bloomberg recalled.

The future of the North Atlantic Alliance, which will celebrate 76 years since its founding, is raised from Trump's January for his position.

NBC News reported March 6th that Trump and its advisors are talking about the possible adjustment of US involvement in NATO, which would record Member States that will contribute a certain percentage of its GDP to defense.

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On the same day, Trump told the Allies that if they did not allocate enough to defend, the US would not defend them.

« It's common sense, » Trump told reporters in an oval office. « If they do not pay, we will not defend them, » said the US President.

Within NATO, Europe, which has been largely disarmed after the Cold War, is dependent on the US for communication, intelligence and logistics, as well as strategic military leadership and firepower, Bloomberg wrote.

Europe in turbulent times

Last week, European Union leaders met in Brussels at an extraordinary summit in order to massively increase defense spending.

They talked about the proposal of the European Commission, which includes up to EUR 150 billion in the form of loans by Member States for defense as well as plans to allow EU Member States to use its national budgets for potential 650 billion euros for four years without breaking EU budgetary rules, Bloomberg writes.

« In the last few weeks, we have witnessed something I would call a rather turbulent development, » said Andrius Kubilius, European Commissioner for Defense on Friday. « It is still not quite clear what the US strategy will look like in the end, » he added.

According to the Act of 2023, the US President cannot unilaterally leave NATO without a two -thirds majority in the Senate or without the law approved by Congress.