Defense

Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine foreshadows America’s looming estrangement from NATO

By Jamie McIntyre
Published September 19, 2025 5:45am ET
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Just 11 months before President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, then-Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) championed a law based on fears about the 45th and 47th commander in chief: that in a second, nonconsecutive term, Trump would unilaterally pull the United States out of the 76-year-old NATO alliance.

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