00:00The most powerful military alliance in history may be about to lose its most important member.
00:05President Trump has told Britain's Daily Telegraph
00:08that withdrawing the United States from NATO is now, in his words, beyond reconsideration.
00:15He called the alliance a paper tiger after European allies refused to join the Iran war.
00:21This week, the Pentagon is expected to present NATO allies
00:24with an accelerated troop withdrawal plan from Germany.
00:28Right now, 35,000 American troops are currently stationed there,
00:32without American troops and Article 5 commitment.
00:36Every NATO ally from Estonia to Norway becomes exponentially more vulnerable to Russian aggression.
00:42For America, losing NATO removes the forward defense line
00:46that has kept war off American soil for 80 years.
00:49Congress says it will fight this.
00:52Trump says he can use presidential authority to bypass them.
00:55Every American state has a stake in the outcome.
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