{"id":1381230,"date":"2026-04-12T21:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-risk-of-nato-split-is-the-us-ready-to-leave-the-alliance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:44:14","slug":"the-risk-of-nato-split-is-the-us-ready-to-leave-the-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-risk-of-nato-split-is-the-us-ready-to-leave-the-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO on the Edge: Is the US Ready to Walk Away?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Despite President Donald Trump&#8217;s tough rhetoric toward NATO allies, a legal US withdrawal from the organization remains unlikely due to congressional resistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gRXc5cs4zec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was expressed<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamy&#8221; by the former president of the Ukrainian World Congress, Yevhen Cholij.<\/p>\n<p>He is convinced that the American leader&#8217;s emotional statements are creating dangerous turbulence in the global security architecture. &#8220;I doubt that will happen. The situation required not only a presidential decision but also a congressional one. And I doubt that such a decision will pass,&#8221; Czoliy noted.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, amid Washington&#8217;s disappointment with the lack of support in operations against Iran, European leaders, in particular German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, emphasize the bloc&#8217;s lack of an alternative for the continent&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\udd34 \u0427\u041e\u041b\u0406\u0419: \u0421\u0428\u0410 \u043d\u0435 \u0432\u0438\u0439\u0434\u0443\u0442\u044c \u0437 \u0410\u043b\u044c\u044f\u043d\u0441\u0443, \u0430\u043b\u0435 \u0422\u0420\u0410\u041c\u041f \u0432\u0436\u0435 \u041f\u041e\u0421\u041b\u0410\u0411\u0418\u0412 \u041d\u0410\u0422\u041e. \u042f\u043a\u0456 \u043d\u0430\u0441\u043b\u0456\u0434\u043a\u0438 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438 \u0442\u0430 \u0441\u0432\u0456\u0442\u0443?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gRXc5cs4zec?start=324&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trumps-strategic-trap-will-the-us-withdraw-from-nato\/\">Trump&#8217;s strategic trap: will the US withdraw from NATO?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p>According to the studio guest, although the actual collapse of the Alliance is not expected, constant criticism from the White House significantly weakens NATO&#8217;s unity, which in turn creates the illusion of the West&#8217;s vulnerability, which Russia actively uses to strengthen its own positions.<\/p>\n<p>The honorary consul noted that although most European countries are assisting with logistics and troop deployments, the public discontent on the American side only fuels the Kremlin&#8217;s aggressive intentions, which see this as a chance to win the war.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that after the end of the war in Iran<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-khochut-perehlianuty-chlenstvo-v-nato-pislia-zavershennia-viyny-v-irani-u-chomu-prychyna\/\">, the US would review its membership in the North Atlantic Alliance<\/a>. Later, it became known that President Donald Trump plans to discuss\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">the United Sta<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-obhovoryt-z-riutte-vykhid-ssha-z-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tes&#8217; withdrawal from the alliance with the NATO\u00a0<\/a>secretary general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rf-poshyriuie-masshtabnu-dezinformatsiiu-pro-kryzu-nato-ta-dyskredytuie-ukrainu\/\">Russian propaganda has intensified its disinformation campaign<\/a> aimed at discrediting Ukraine and creating the impression of a crisis in NATO. According to analysts at the Center for Strategic Communications, there have been about 400 publications that present Ukraine as a destabilizing factor and promote narratives of a \u201csplit\u201d in the EU and NATO.<\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1776002399526_z4f5fcefs\">\n<div id=\"oa-360-1776002399534_cp4fs5v59\" data-dest=\"placeholder\">\n<div id=\"oa-360-1776002399533_7lfhx7cpd\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1776002399534_2cuu8fegv\">Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a><\/span>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite President Donald Trump&#8217;s tough rhetoric toward NATO allies, a legal US withdrawal from the organization remains unlikely due to congressional resistance. This opinion was expressed on the air of &#8220;Pryamy&#8221; by the former president of the Ukrainian World Congress, Yevhen Cholij. He is convinced that the American leader&#8217;s emotional statements are creating dangerous turbulence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1381154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1381230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381230","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381339,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381230\/revisions\/1381339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1381154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}