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#KeithKellogg, a retired lieutenant general & onetime chief of staff of TFG's #NationalSecurity Council, said in an interview that if a member of the 31-country #alliance failed to spend at least 2% of its #GDP on #defense, as agreed, he would support removing that nation's #Article5 #protections under the #NorthAtlanticTreaty.

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joe•iuculano Jul 13, 2023

#Senators offer bill to block any U.S. president from leaving #NATO

"The #President shall not suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the #UnitedStates from the #NorthAtlanticTreaty, done at #Washington, DC, April 4, 1949, except by and with the advice and consent of the #Senate, provided that two-thirds of the Senators present concur or pursuant to an #ActOfCongress," the measure says.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senators-offer-bill-block-any-us-president-leaving-nato-2023-07-12/

Senators offer bill to block any U.S. president from leaving NATO

Democratic and Republic senators renewed an effort to block any U.S. president from leaving NATO on Wednesday, as leaders of the alliance attended <a href="/world/nato-summit-seeks-agreement-ukraine-bid-after-turkey-deal-sweden-2023-07-10/">an eventful summit</a> in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Reuters