Donald Trump has continued to attack member states of NATO, the US-led military alliance. At a rally in South Carolina earlier this year, the former president said he would not follow the alliance’s collective defense clause and would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell it wants” if a member country failed to meet spending guidelines.
“NATO was broken until I came along,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Everybody’s going to pay.’ They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Of course not.’ They couldn’t believe the answer.”
The former president has also previously promised to end the war in Ukraine, though he has not offered details on how he would do so. “Right after I win the presidency, I will resolve the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump said at a campaign event in New Hampshire last year, adding in another speech that it would take “no more than one day” to resolve the war if elected.
Trump further elaborated on his strategy to end “endless wars” by promising to remove “war mongers,” “fraudsters” and “failures in the highest levels of government” and replace them with national security officials who would defend U.S. interests. The former president added in a campaign video that he would bar lobbyists and government contractors from pressuring senior military officials to go to war.
Additionally, Trump said he would restore his “wonderful” travel ban on individuals from several Muslim-majority countries to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out of our country” after Biden overturned the measure in 2021.
This content was originally published in Trump continues to attack NATO members. See his positions on foreign policy on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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