“And it would be the wildest success that Vladimir Putin could dream of.” “It would destroy 70-plus years of painstaking work across multiple administrations, Republican and Democratic, to create perhaps the most powerful and advantageous alliance in history,” Ms.
Flournoy, an under secretary of defense under President Barack Obama. investigation into the administration’s Russia ties.Ī move to withdraw from the alliance, in place since 1949, “would be one of the most damaging things that any president could do to U.S. Putin secret from even his own aides, and an F.B.I. Trump’s efforts to keep his meetings with Mr. Now, the president’s repeatedly stated desire to withdraw from NATO is raising new worries among national security officials amid growing concern about Mr. Bolton, the national security adviser, scrambled to keep American strategy on track without mention of a withdrawal that would drastically reduce Washington’s influence in Europe and could embolden Russia for decades.
Trump’s national security team, including Jim Mattis, then the defense secretary, and John R.
