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In Interview, Trump Appears To Question NATO's 'Collective Defense' Clause
President Trump is getting a strong reaction after a Fox News interview in which he appeared to question the need to honor NATO's collective defense clause, while suggesting that newest alliance member Montenegro is a country of "aggressive people" who could trigger World War III.
A NATO official was quoted by Germany's DPA news agency as saying that Article 5 in the alliance's charter — which states that an attack on one member an attack on all — remains "unconditional and ironclad."
Meanwhile, an opposition politician in Montenegro questioned the president's knowledge of foreign policy and Sen. John McCain accused him of "playing right into Putin's hands."
Trump's comments are part of an interview aired Tuesday night on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight that was recorded earlier in Helsinki, the site of Trump's controversial summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Doing Putin's work all by himself !
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On the evening of 12 September 2001, less than 24 hours after the attacks, the Allies invoked the principle of Article 5. Then NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson subsequently informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the Alliance's decision.
NATO members defending the United States is the one and only time that Article 5 has ever been invoked. I remember seeing war planes flying over the Susquehanna in the fall of 2001 patrolling near three Mile Island. Some of those planes were British and French.
And, 159?
That's the number of Canadian soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan supporting the United States.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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