Trump’s threat to leave NATO is outrageous

For one thing, NATO has been the centrepiece of Western and European peace and security for 80 years. For another, then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter passed a law making it illegal for any U.S. president to unilaterally leave NATO without Congress' approval.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump, pictured in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 23, 2026. Trump started a war with Iran that is neither legal, moral, nor provoked. There was no imminent threat to the U.S., writes Michael Harris. Photograph courtesy of White House photographer Molly Riley

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

April 6, 2026

HALIFAX—There is a lesson for Canada in United States President Donald Trump’s recent attempt to intimidate NATO into joining the feckless Iran war.

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