> "I'm taking the USA out of NATO" is synonym with "the west can trust Russia". Trump was all over the place so it's hard to know what his exact positions were

> "I'm taking the USA out of NATO" is synonym with "the west can trust Russia". Trump was all over the place so it's hard to know what his exact positions were but he definitely bitched about European countries for not maintaining the NATO spending goal of 2 percent of economic output [0] which seemed to be his main gripe with NATO from what I remember. One quote from the article: "Mr. Trump appeared especially annoyed, officials in the meeting said, with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and her country’s military spending of 1 percent of its gross domestic product." [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-presiden...