The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was signed on April 4th, 1949, in Washington, D.C., establishing the NATO alliance. It formed a mutual defense pact, primarily driven by 12 founding Western nations (including the United States, Canada, and UK), to prevent Soviet expansionism in Europe, formalizing the Cold War.
– The purpose of NATO was to create a collective defense against potential aggression from the Soviet Union.
– Members agreed that an armed attack or war against one member is considered an attack against all.
– From an initial growth of 12 members, the organization has expanded into 32 nations to maintain stability and defend freedom. Three NATO members are nuclear powers: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
– Founding signatories: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, and the United States.
– This treaty solidified the political division of Europe and facilitated the first peacetime military alliance for the United States outside the Western Hemisphere.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that the world is “safer” under President Donald Trump, pointing to U.S. military actions targeting Iran’s capabilities.
Rutte acknowledged that some European nations “declined to fully support” the United States’ operations in Iran, while emphasizing that most allies followed through on prior commitments. Some refused to let the U.S. use their bases, some denied the U.S. use of their airspace, but many of them, including France and other European nations, did what they had committed before they would do in a case like this. Rutte further said their negative attitude enabled the United States to project military power during the operation. Rutte added, “Europe as a platform of power projection for the United States was in full play over the last six weeks.” He continued, “Not all European nations lived up to those commitments, and I totally understand that Trump is highly disappointed.”
Now the question arises: if Trump divorces and pulls America out of NATO, what will happen? Rutte openly said that Trump’s influence within NATO, particularly on defense spending among member nations, was significant. “It was Trump’s leadership which brought about The Hague spending commitments, the 5%, which is a transformational change in NATO,” he said. “Without him, we would never have gotten there.”
NATO countries do not want to disregard Iran’s nuclear weapons capability and should paralyze its ability to make ballistic missiles. “NATO has always taken the position that degrading these capabilities is crucial, and that Iran can never get its hands on those two capabilities.” Iran cannot withdraw or reduce its capability for nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, only to create chaos in the region, to Europe, and to the whole world.
Rutte said, “We should not close our eyes to a bitter truth,” that Russia, North Korea, Belarus, China, and Iran are working together, and every day they are coming closer. It needs more concrete observation on them.
– Can a president pull out of NATO, or does he need Congress approval?
– The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, enacted on 22 December 2023, prohibits the President from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO without approval of a two-thirds Senate majority or an act of Congress.
– The supreme commander of NATO forces is always an American officer holding the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). As of July 2025, this position is held by General Alexus G. Grynkewich of the U.S. Air Force, who leads all NATO military operations from SHAPE in Belgium.
– Can France have forgotten D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, when American forces, with Allied forces, invaded German-occupied territory of France and expelled Germans from France in 1943? This was General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII, and American General Field Marshal Montgomery led his force at Normandy to kick back German forces out of France. Eisenhower was responsible for the success of Operation Overlord (Normandy invasion) and liberated Western Europe. Thus America suffered approximately 135,000 total casualties (killed, wounded, or missing) during the Normandy Campaign (June 6–September 14, 1944), with over 29,000 deaths alone on D-Day. American troops suffered over 4,000 casualties on Omaha, and over 2,500 deaths primarily landing at Utah and Omaha beaches.
– The Statue of Liberty was a big icon of friendship between people of France and people of America, made by and offered by the people of France with fundraising of $250,000. On October 28th, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was inaugurated. President Grover Cleveland accepted the statue on behalf of the United States, and it was erected at National Park of Liberty Island. When America was smashed in 1940 by German forces, they voluntarily made allies with British and dropped their Army at Normandy, and D-Day was marked in world history at Normandy on June 6, 1944. America gave back to France, to their French friends, with 6,500 death bodies of American fallen heroes. If we keep our fallen heroes one over one, it will go up to 93 meter high. Status will seem a dwarf before the life casualties of our fallen hero of France. It is quiet enough to realize and ashamed France to stand by U.S.A. in present war to release their Muslim friends, Arabian or Iranian, from the unwanted regime governing by force over oppressed Iranians and not allowing their Muslim country Pakistani to dig oil from their country.
Is the data of casualties enough when Americans with their blood gave life to a dead body of France, and in our present truce with Iran, France did not allow its bases to be used for American soldiers? This is not the first time. France’s Charles de Gaulle prioritized French national sovereignty and frequently opposed U.S. policy. De Gaulle insisted on independent military command, developed France’s nuclear arsenal, and ordered U.S. military forces to leave France in 1966, pulling France out of NATO integrated military structure. He ordered 70,000 soldiers and nearly 1 million tons of equipment.
– One thing we are missing is that there is a big growth in the UK, and France’s Muslim population has a big increase. In these countries, they are a very political voice and a big voter bank in their countries. It is very hard, while the U.S. is busy in a truce with Iran, that they will ever allow their countries to help the U.S. against Iran, their Muslim brother.
So in the present truce with Iran, many allies of the United States have been proved full of fake, but we Americans are behind our President Trump, today and always. This is the habit and dignity of America that America fights for its friends, maybe in past France or Western Europe, or today in Saudi Arabia or Arab states.
God bless America. God bless President Trump. God bless and protect American soldiers.