Trump Considering Major NATO Policy Shift

“President Donald Trump is considering a major change to the U.S.’ participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,“ NBC News reports.

“Trump has discussed with aides the possibility of calibrating America’s NATO engagement in a way that favors members of the alliance that spend a set percentage of their gross domestic product on defense.”

“As part of the potential policy shift, the U.S. might not defend a fellow NATO member that is attacked if the country doesn’t meet the defense spending threshold, the officials said. If Trump does make that change, it would mark a significant shift from a core tenet of the alliance known as Article 5, which says that an attack on any NATO country is an attack on all of them.”