The Trump administration is considering scrapping the longstanding role of the U.S. in leading NATO’s military operations in Europe, NBC News reported on March 18, citing unnamed defense officials.
For nearly 75 years, a four-star U.S. general has held the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), overseeing NATO’s military strategy and operations.
When he leaves NATO, we need to worry about Canada, Greenland and Panama. He will start a war to make them US property.
I’ve read before that there has been a law passed disallowing the American president to decide to leave NATO. The republicans (having a majority) would have to vote in favour of leaving NATO in the American parliament. I’m not sure how unlikely that is, but the US republicans getting rid of NATO would be very interesting…
But the US don’t need to leave NATO to destroy it. All Trump needs to do is say the US won’t come to the assistance of NATO partners in the event of an attack. NATO could die in irrelevance instead.
What happens if the US attacks a NATO country?
I don’t know, but according to the Dutch Chief of Defence Mart de Kruif, it would trigger article 5 against the attacking NATO member:
Probably the opposite. By staying in NATO, but rendering it mostly obsolete, attacking Canada would be much less of a clear case of being an attack on NATO.
However, realistically speaking the rest of NATO has only limited force projection capabilities and thus wouldn’t be able to help Canada much.