NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump seemingly questioned the United States’ commitment to defending all NATO allies in an interview that aired Tuesday [7-17-18] evening. At the end of a major international trip with three stops — a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, a visit to the United Kingdom and the latest NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium — Trump spoke with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, where he appeared to waver on whether the US would come to the defense of all NATO member countries…While at the NATO summit last week, Trump signed the NATO communique, which explicitly endorsed Article 5. ‘Any attack against one Ally will be regarded as an attack against us all, as set out in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty,’ the communique reads. In 2017, Trump said he agreed with the commitment that members will come to one another’s aid if they’re attacked, which is Article 5 of the NATO charter. NATO has invoked Article 5 only once, following the 9/11 attacks on the US.”
-Sophie Tatum, “Trump seems to question US commitment to defending all NATO allies,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, July 18, 2018 11:02 am