I would love to just pull out of NATO as has been suggestion… The problem is, doing something like that requires a 2/3rds vote in the House and Senate, and we know that neocon warmongers and worthless communist Democrats would never agree to this… So now Trump is considering something else to punish these worthless, freeloading NATO countries.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering plans to “punish” NATO nations deemed to have failed to stand by America during the military operation against the Islamist regime of Iran.
Operation Epic Fury may see geopolitical consequences further afield than the Persian Gulf, with a report from the Wall Street Journal claiming that the White House is looking at various options in terms of restructuring its involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), potentially shifting troops and other resources away from certain countries depending on their response to President Trump’s call for assistance in Iran.
The report, citing unnamed administration officials, claimed that countries such as Greece, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania could see an increased American military footprint as a result of their supportive stance over the past month. Conversely, countries such as Germany and Spain were cited as potentially losing U.S. resources due to their responses to the Iran conflict.
Spain has come under particular scrutiny over the past month, with Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez styling himself as the war’s top critic in Europe, initially refusing to allow the U.S. Military to access Spanish bases to launch Iranian operations, and later barring American Air Force planes from travelling through the nation’s airspace towards the Middle East.
This came on an already fractured relationship, with the leftist government in Madrid becoming the only NATO ally in Europe last year to refuse President Trump’s call to increase defence spending to five per cent of GDP. Even prior to that, Spain has long been among the delinquent nations that have failed to meet even 2 per cent of GDP in defence spending.