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Eugene

(64,231 posts)
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 04:39 PM Mar 3

Musk wants to leave NATO. Thanks to Marco Rubio, that's a lot harder

Source: Insider

Musk wants to leave NATO. Thanks to Marco Rubio, that's a lot harder

Brent D. Griffiths
Mon, March 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM EST 3 min read

•Elon Musk said he agreed that the US should leave NATO.
•Before he became Secretary of State, Marco Rubio made such a move harder.
•Congress passed a law requiring a vote to approve any US withdrawal.

Elon Musk wants the US to leave NATO. Before he joined President Donald Trump's Cabinet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made such a historic move a lot more difficult.

"I agree," Musk wrote on X on Saturday night when a conservative political commentator suggested the US leave the United Nations and NATO.

Before he joined Trump's cabinet, Rubio co-led a congressional effort to handcuff any potential future president who wanted to leave NATO. Trump's name wasn't always mentioned, but it was clear his then-presidential candidacy worried enough lawmakers from both parties to move to rein him in.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-wants-leave-nato-thanks-191326505.html

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Musk wants to leave NATO. Thanks to Marco Rubio, that's a lot harder (Original Post) Eugene Mar 3 OP
For all practical purposes CanonRay Mar 3 #1
Well then, kick Musk's ass out of NATO. Nobody cares! GreenWave Mar 3 #2

CanonRay

(15,175 posts)
1. For all practical purposes
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 04:49 PM
Mar 3

we have left NATO. They all know Trump would never support them against Putin.

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