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Is Trump truly backing NATO’s collective defense promise?
AlArabiya English
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5 days ago
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And John, yesterday it was the F-bomb. Today it was the love bomb from Mark Rutter who praised
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Trump in his NATO speech. Is Rutter the President Donald Trump whisperer? As it appears, despite
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concerns, the US president wasn't committed to Article 5 on his way to the NATO summit. Now he
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appears to be in. What's the situation there? Well, very much, Mr. Rute, you know, sent a
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basically dear leader, sort of, you know, you hearken back to President Trump's first term when
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he got this massive piece of paper and a huge envelope from Kim Jong-il in North Korea, and he
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said it was a love letter. You know, this is very, it's just consistent with people. Dear leader,
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thank you, you're the greatest, you're the best. You know, so I'm not so sure it means an awful lot,
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but on Article 5, that's significant. And this is the reason why. Article 5 isn't what everyone
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seems to think it is. It doesn't mean that if one country is attacked, the others have to come to
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its defense. Article 5 was written in a way that it can be interpreted. And it was written in that
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way specifically because of the United States in the 1940s. They didn't want to have anything that
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required them to do anything. So if you read the text of Article 5, it says that if a member is
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attacked, a country will determine on its own, independently, not necessarily militarily, what kind
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of assistance it may or may not provide. So President Trump, you know, is pretty much still holding that
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what he said on Air Force One is correct. Article 5 can be interpreted in many ways. And he's going to do
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that. So I don't think anyone should count on the fact that if a NATO member is attacked, that the United States
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is going to come running in with military support.
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