Vance tells whether Trump will keep US in NATO
US presidential candidate Donald Trump (photo: Getty Images)
US presidential candidate Donald Trump, if elected, will keep the country in NATO. However, it is important for him that the transatlantic alliance is not “just a welfare client,” states Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance.
According to Vance, Trump wants NATO to be strong.
“He wants us to remain in NATO... But he also wants NATO countries to actually carry their share of the defense burden,” said Trump's vice presidential candidate.
At the same time, when a journalist asked Vance to give a direct answer about Trump's intentions, Vance said that the United States would remain in NATO.
“We would stay in NATO,” he said.
Trump said he would withdraw the United States from NATO
According to French European Commissioner Thierry Breton, in 2020, during a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump said that NATO was allegedly “dead” and promised to withdraw from the Alliance.
“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you... By the way, NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will quit NATO,” Trump said at the time.
In contrast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that if the United States withdraws from NATO, the world will lose at least Poland and the Baltic states.
