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No, "I'm taking the USA out of NATO" was synonymous with "I'm tired of you free riding on our military - start contributing to your own defense".

I'm very much not a Trump fan, but no, I do not agree with your interpretation of the threat to take the US out of NATO.

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> free riding on our military

Small minded.

The purpose of NATO is to serve as a force multiplier. It's not that Europe benefits at the cost of the USA. Both benefit.

The purpose of NATO is to serve as mutual defense. If it's mutual defense with a bunch of nearly unarmed countries, how "mutual" is it?

(Yes, you could consider having other countries coming to your defense to be multiplying your force. But if they don't have much of a force of their own, how much "multiplying" are they doing?)

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