{"id":1330968,"date":"2025-12-10T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nato-under-threat-us-may-terminate-membership-in-the-alliance\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:30:41","slug":"nato-under-threat-us-may-terminate-membership-in-the-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/nato-under-threat-us-may-terminate-membership-in-the-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO under threat: US may terminate membership in the Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has submitted a bill to the US Congress that would withdraw the United States from NATO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1998526052243746978\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> this on his X social media account on Wednesday, December 10.<\/p>\n<p> Massie called NATO &#8220;a relic of the Cold War&#8221; and said that the United States should redirect Alliance funds to its own defense instead of supporting &#8220;socialist countries.&#8221; In the text of the bill, HR 6508, the congressman demands that the president officially notify the North Atlantic bloc of America&#8217;s withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p> The document notes that NATO&#8217;s original purpose no longer meets the current national interests of the United States. It also emphasizes that the Alliance&#8217;s European members have sufficient military and economic potential to ensure their own security.<\/p>\n<p> The bill also stipulates that American taxes should not be used to fund the organization&#8217;s shared budgets.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-vymahaiut-shchob-yevropa-vziala-na-sebe-oboronu-nato-do-2027-roku\/\">the United States is demanding that European NATO members assume most of the alliance&#8217;s conventional defense capabilities by 2027.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bez-uchasti-ssha-yevropa-perehliadaie-stratehiiu-bezpeky-na-tli-ryzyku-vtorhnennia-rosii\/\">European countries are preparing for a possible invasion by Russia without US participation,<\/a> amid the reduction of the American military presence on the continent. NATO countries in Europe are already adapting defense plans and strengthening their own military capabilities.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has submitted a bill to the US Congress that would withdraw the United States from NATO. He announced this on his X social media account on Wednesday, December 10. Massie called NATO &#8220;a relic of the Cold War&#8221; and said that the United States should redirect Alliance funds to its own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1304059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1330968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}