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Suddenly, leaving NATO is on the table.

Over the weekend, President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency head, Elon Musk,

made quite a stir with just two words posted on his social media platform X. Responding to a post that,

it's time to leave NATO and the UN, Musk replied, I agree. The comment immediately made the rounds

on social media and also on mainstream and alternative media.

Was this the Elon Musk who owns X speaking?

Or was it the Elon Musk who has become one of President Trump's closest advisors?

Does it even matter?

Having someone so close to the U.S. president who advocates finally

extracting the U.S. from these international organizations is a significant and very positive

shift for the United States. With the truth coming out about how USAID has been working against U.S. interests for decades,

the disinfectant of public scrutiny is now turning to our membership in and generous funding

of international organizations like NATO and the United Nations.

I've long advocated our exit from NATO.

At the end of the Cold War, with his very reason for existence gone,

NATO decided to look for other ways of stirring up trouble.

First, NATO involved itself in the first Gulf War,

and then it decided its mission should be to bomb

Serbia to smithereens in the name of human rights. I agree with the late Senator Robert

Taft who argued at the time NATO was formed that we should not join the Atlantic Alliance. It has become much clearer these past few

months just how far NATO has shifted away from U.S. interests. Even though the United States

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