The Telegraph reported on 1st April ’26 that President Donald Trump is “… strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato (sic) after it failed to join his war on Iran.” – the comment can be found in this article.
Bye then.
At this point, I doubt that any European nation believes that the United States would keep its commitments under the NATO treaty, so this latest statement is already an empty threat. As I said in my blog on 21st Jan ’26, “… NATO is now dead, and a new Western security treaty is needed that does not include the USA.”
The feeling is that Europe is already moving on. In other news today, it has been reported that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will use a summit with the EU to “… seek more cooperation with the bloc on the economy and security… as relations between the US and the UK have been increasingly strained by the PM’s refusal to be drawn further into the war with Iran.” – see this BBC News article.
NATO is a mutual defence organisation, not an extension of USA imperial ambition, and as many European leaders have already said, this USA war with Iran is not Europe’s war.
As an unreliable ally, who has already been threatening the territorial integrity of Greenland and generally denigrating Europe, its people and leaders, there is a sense that Europe will be safer without the United Statesians close by.
Europe should not take part in the USA’s war on Iran, even when it leads to shortages and inflation…
… because the greater win is that every day it drags on,
… the more damage the USA causes to itself,
… the more it is shamed by the global chaos it is causing,
… the more the current USA administration is itself politically damaged.
The longer this USA war with Iran goes on, perhaps enough United Statesians will decide that their current government is not acting in their best interests… and the world may then get to see change via USA ballot boxes.
Lee J. Russell, Author 