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I feel like when he was in office before, I recall him wanting to pull out of NATO then.
I hope we have legislatively done everything we can to ensure whoever the president is, is not able to unilaterally pull out of alliances, and membership in the UN, and WHO, without first getting congressional approval as well, and any such action would be null, and void without such approval.
We were a joke on the world stage when Trump was in office, and lost the trust of much of our allies. We are finally taken seriously on the world stage again, and not laughed at for our president, but we have not fully regained that trust; it is there now, but the world now see's weather they can trust us at any given moment is depending on elections every 4 years at minimum, and our current congress is even swayed by the whims of a former president that isn't even in office.
The trust, standing, and soft power the USA lost from Trump's time in office, may never return to what it once was.
Congressional approval is necessary for entering treaties, not for leaving them. Congress tries to change that. Hopefully in time
Congress already passed a bill preventing presidents from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO, but legal experts think it won't hold up in court if challenged by Trump.
I would also have concerns of if congress only requires 50% of the vote or not, but as things stand, we at least have enough who support NATO and view Russia as an adversary, that it is unlikely.
But house republicans have proven over and over they are weak. They cave to pressure on Trump when he isn't even president.
To use one of Trumps phrases, Republicans got a 'sweetheart deal' on immigration and the border, and they gave it up over pressure from Trump to not fix the border issue if he isn't in office. Every day the border crisis continues is on Trump, and republicans hands (I want to say house, but even the Senate caved to him).
The law now requires 2/3s of the Senate to approve a presidential order to withdraw from NATO, or for congress to pass a separate bill choosing to withdraw.
Awesome. Thanks for the info.