Senator Mike Lee suggested that the United States withdraw from NATO. He sees the alliance as a financial burden and an entanglement not serving current U.S. interests. The EU spent only 1.6% of the GDP on defense.
Lee wrote on X: “It’s time for the U.S. to leave NATO.”
He commented after German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said he found Vice President Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference “unacceptable.”
The speech was great.
Vance strongly criticized the authoritarianism consuming the EU over censorship, migration policies, and their lack of seriousness about their own defense.
The EU doesn’t even know how far it has slipped from the values it once shared with the United States.
I can’t say whether we should leave or not, but I will say that none of them can hold their weight, and they won’t even pay their fair share. The only army that can defend its country is unreliable Turkey.
They no longer share our values.
It’s time for the U.S. to leave NATO
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— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 14, 2025
America’s government & military
Should be protecting the U.S.
Not helping Europe afford socialism
Time to leave NATO
America First!
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 14, 2025
Agreed! NATO was formed to protect a broken, shattered Europe from the predations of Russia and to bind France and Germany into a situation where they were dependent upon each other. That is no longer the case. Europe can and must defend itself. The United States is not a European nation and, while we need to guard against a resurgent… Read more »
I agree completely, especially considering England and Germany tried their best to get us into yet, another world war with Russia. That is totally unacceptable.
And the UN.
Sorry, Einstein, but without NATO, the US is not the world’s superpower and the dollar is not the world’s reserve currency and our allies would dump us and go elsewhere and the US would have to spend even more on defense to make up for the loss of allies and overseas bases and the EU would become like Russia and… Read more »
It is for certain that our adversaries would love to see NATO dismantled.
NATO was the Opposing Force to the Warsaw Pact of the USSR & Eastern European Communist Gov Countries. The “Iron Curtain fell during the Bush I presidency….. but NATO Continues ….. to fight in Iraq & Afghanistan ??? Pretty FAR from the North Atlantic and Original Purpose of NATO. We/Me/You must Recognize TRUTH ; NeoCons were/are the Deep Statists of… Read more »
I agree with Sen. Lee. F NATO.
Without the United States there is no NATO.