Will Donald Trump Walk Away From NATO?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. Will the NATO alliance be a |
| 0:41.5 | casualty of the Iran war? President Trump is threatening to withdraw from the European-American |
| 0:48.7 | treaty after he said its members failed to help the U.S. in its war with Iran, and especially in clearing safe passage |
| 0:58.2 | through the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:00.1 | Plus, how does the ceasefire in the Iran war look a day after it was announced? |
| 1:08.0 | And two days before direct talks with Iran and the U.S. are scheduled for |
| 1:13.9 | Pakistan. Those are our subjects today for Potomac Watch. I'm Paul G. Go here. This is the Daily |
| 1:20.0 | podcast of Wall Street Journal Opinion, and I'm here with Kate, Batchelor Odell, and Jillian |
| 1:26.0 | Melcher, two of our fearless foreign policy watchers. |
| 1:30.2 | Mark Ruta, the Secretary General of NATO, a very competent man, visited the White House Wednesday to try to mollify President Trump. |
| 1:39.5 | But unlike his other visits to the White House, there was no joint presser, no joint press conference |
| 1:44.2 | afterwards with expressions of common ground. |
| 1:47.2 | Instead, the president issuing tweet posts, including this one, NATO in all caps, of course, |
| 1:54.7 | NATO wasn't there when we needed them and they won't be there if we need them again. |
| 2:00.0 | Remember Greenland, that big |
| 2:01.3 | poorly run piece of ice, end quote. And let's listen to Mr. Ruta on CNN describe his meeting |
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