US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is seriously weighing leaving the NATO alliance after it didn’t join the US-Israeli campaign against Iran or work to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

“Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration,” he told UK newspaper The Telegraph. “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”

He argued that the US did its part to protect Ukraine, even though it wasn’t America’s problem.

“We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine,” said Trump, who has aired repeated skepticism about the trans-Atlantic military alliance. “Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.”

He also blasted UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and British military capabilities: “You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work.”

In response to Trump’s comments, Starmer called NATO “the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen.”

“It has kept us safe for many decades, and we are fully committed to NATO,” Starmer told a press conference.

Trump has lashed out at NATO throughout the campaign, accusing it of doing nothing to help the war effort. On Tuesday, Trump singled out Britain and........

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