Trump says he may pull US out of NATO, calls alliance a 'paper tiger'

In a Daily Telegraph interview, President Trump said he is strongly considering withdrawing the United States from NATO and called the alliance a 'paper tiger'. He also accused the United Kingdom of lacking a navy and slammed allies for not doing more to reopen strategic waterways. The comments follow weeks of public denouncements of allies and come amid heightened tensions with Iran and debates over US force posture. A US withdrawal would undercut Article 5 collective defense, embolden adversaries such as Russia, and trigger a major rupture in US European security architecture.