“SANGER: My point here is, Can the members of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, including the new members in the Baltics, count on the United States to come to their military aid if they were attacked by Russian Federation? I’m not a fan of Hillary Clinton, and I’m not going to vote for her”, he said.
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A dumbfounded Grothman, a Trump supporter, warned that Trump’s suggestion that the USA should not abide by its commitments to allies would create a less safe world and invite a Russian invasion of its European neighbors.
Without mentioning Trump by name, Stoltenberg said alliance members “defend one another”.
“More important is the net benefit the USA derives from the stability and security of the country and region affected and the price the US would pay if stability were to be lost or its interests undermined”, Haass told Reuters.Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which created NATO in 1949 and calls an attack on one member an attack on all, has been invoked just once – to help defend the United States after the 9/11 attacks.
Indeed, Trump’s suggestion, in an interview with the Times, would upend decades of American foreign policy and rock the security structures that have underpinned European and global stability since the end of World War II.
His decision to aid allies in times of need would only be made after looking at whether those nations “have fulfilled their obligations to us”, he said.
The candidate also stated, that if Russian Federation were to attack any of this countries the U.S will have to evaluate if the nations had “fulfilled their obligations to us”, in that case America would provide backup.
“We’re stepping up in a much bigger way”, Sajjan said. The article has been invoked only once: after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Does it make them more vulnerable?
“If we decide we have to defend the United States, we can always deploy” troops from the U.S., Trump told the newspaper, “and it will be a lot less expensive”.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who backed Trump at the party’s national convention only two days earlier, said he totally disagreed with the statement but was willing to “chalk it up to a rookie mistake”.
“Trump as president would have an enormous amount of discretion”, said Barry Bosworth, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former White House staffer. Yet GOP candidate has put in doubt America’s alliance with Europe. Numerous member nations don’t fulfill their own commitment to spend 2 percent of their Gross National Product on defense.
Former Republican rival Senator Lindsey Graham of SC joined the criticism, saying Trump’s remarks made the world more unsafe and the United States less safe.
In a 2013 tweet, Trump hailed as a “masterpiece” a Putin op-ed in the New York Times criticizing American foreign policy.
According to a 2008 disclosure form that public relations firm Edelman filed with the Department of Justice, the company was hired by Manafort’s lobbying shop to conduct a media campaign to communicate Yanukovych’s “reform program” and “his actions toward making Ukraine a more democratic country”. Trump lieutenants reportedly had the Republican platform altered to get rid of anti-Russia language on Ukraine.
Mr Johnson said that although the “foreign policy establishment” had opposed Brexit, the world was now coming to realise that it presented opportunities.
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Manafort was asked about the GOP position in Ukraine at a news conference in Cleveland, but he deflected the question, saying only that the world needs a “strong us presence”.
