NATO on the Edge: Biden Praises and Trump Denigrates a 75-Year Alliance
As leaders gathered in Washington to mark the anniversary of the organization, they heard starkly different messages from two American presidents on NATO’s future.
President Biden meeting with world leaders at a NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday. “The fact that NATO remains the bulwark of global security did not happen by accident,” Mr. Biden said during the summit’s opening ceremony.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
By Peter Baker Published: July 11, 2024 Reporting from Washington
As NATO leaders gathered in Washington this week, one American president hailed the 75-year defensive alliance as the greatest “in the history of the world.”
Another described it as a virtual protection racket and declared that he would abandon “delinquent” members to the mercies of Russian invaders.
President Biden was the official host, greeting his European and North American counterparts in Washington with smiles, handshakes and solidarity, posing for grip-and-grin pictures and boasting of the progress and principle underlying the historic partnership. Former President Donald J. Trump was nowhere to be seen, not part of the formal events, but adding his voice from afar at a rally and in an interview.
“The fact that NATO remains the bulwark of global security did not happen by accident,” Mr. Biden said at an opening ceremony in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, where the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949. “It wasn’t inevitable. Again and again, at critical moments, we chose unity over disunion, progress over retreat, freedom over tyranny and hope over fear. Again and again, we stood behind our shared vision of a peaceful and prosperous trans-Atlantic community.”
Just two hours after Mr. Biden finished, Mr. Trump took the stage at a campaign event in Doral, Fla., and denigrated the alliance. He made no mention of its contributions to history, its victory in the Cold War or its role in defending Europe today as the war in Ukraine continues. Indeed, he acknowledged that he had been largely ignorant about the organization until he became president. But he then boasted about how he berated the allies as deadbeats.
At a rally away from the NATO summit, former President Donald J. Trump denigrated the alliance and boasted of berating allied nations as deadbeats.Credit…Scott McIntyre for The New York Times
“I didn’t know what the hell NATO was too much before,” Mr. Trump told cheering supporters. “But it didn’t take me long to figure it out, like about two minutes. And the first thing I figured out was they were not paying. We were paying, we were paying almost fully for NATO. And I said that’s unfair.”
It seems likely that Donald Trump will become President again after the Elections in November 2024. So what will happen to NATO given his dislike and distrust of this Alliance. Well, what we do know from Bible Prophecy is that NATO will be disolve as Europe will ultimately draw closer to Russia. We will watch to see what happens following the USA elections, but from this article and a few others, European leaders are worried about what might happen if Trump comes back. Europe will form a ‘Security Pact’ with Russia.
This EU SUPERSTATE will along with Russia enter into a final conflict with Israel and the Middle East. Germany is the key country in what Bible Prophecy refers to as the land of “Magog”. They are spoken of militarily as the “King of the North”. Together the Bible says that Russia and the EU will invade the Middle East in the Last Days. So Bible Students expect to see Germany and France taking a greater role in leading Europe. It is also interesting to see Germany taking greater control of a continent they tried to take by war and failed.
Yet again we see in Today’s News Headlines words that show how the Nations are fulfilling the latter-day alignment of Nations as Prophesied by the Bible.
See this article to learn more about this and the latter day prophecies of the Bible.
See this article for more on this subject: WHAT IS NEXT FOR EUROPE
