An amendment that would prohibit any president of the United States from unilaterally withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization without an act of Congress or Senate approval has been packed into the annual National Defense Authorization Act.
“The growing fear that Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump will win next year’s pivotal election has led to a preemptive strike by lawmakers to sabotage his ability to conduct the nation’s foreign policy.
Snuggled deeply inside of the just-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a provision barring Trump from pulling the nation out of what some believe is a relic of the Cold War that should have been dismantled after the collapse of the Soviet Union over three decades ago.
The provision which was authored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) bars any future president from exiting the military alliance, which could conceivably drag the U.S. into World War III, and would require Trump to seek Senate approval to remove the U.S. from the entangling foreign pact.
In addition, there is the lawfare option that authorizes the Congressional Legal Counsel to sue the White House, with the courts being the primary battlefield in the war on Trump.
No less an establishment propaganda organ than the sad remains of the once-proudly dissident Rolling Stone magazine claimed that Trump will pull the U.S. out of NATO if voters return him to the White House, a possibility that looks more likely by the day.
Trump has complained about NATO’s Article 5, the mutual defense pact that could drag the nation into an apocalyptic conflict with Russia if a member nation is attacked. He has also boasted about making European freeloaders pay their fair share for the pact.
‘NATO has held strong in response to Putin’s war in Ukraine and rising challenges around the world’, Senator Kaine said in a statement.
‘The Senate’s vote today to pass my bipartisan bill to prevent any U.S. President from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO reaffirms U.S. support for this crucial alliance that is foundational for our national security. It also sends a strong message to authoritarians around the world that the free world remains united’.
‘The Senate should maintain oversight on whether or not our nation withdraws from NATO. We must ensure we are protecting our national interests and protecting the security of our democratic allies’, added Senator Rubio”. -Chris Donaldson, BizPac Review
After decades of being forewarned of the potential problems that would arise from U.S. heads of state supposedly trying to aggrandize their presidential powers by usurping the legislative role through the passage of unconstitutional executive orders, it is the interventionists in Congress that have moved to constrain the power of the executive branch in an effort to impose the nondemocratic dictate of a multinational bureaucracy over a conquered American populace.