Elon Musk appears to back US withdrawing from NATO and UN

Elon Musk has urged the US government to leave both the UN and NATO.

The tech billionaire made the remarks in a post on X, formerly Twitter. 

Gunther Eagleman, a political commentator, who describes himself as a ‘Proud America First MAGA Patriot’, wrote ‘It’s time to leave NATO and the UN’ in an X post on March 1.

That message was reposted by Musk, the leader of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), who simply added ‘I agree’. 

Musk also today reposted a tweet by Republican congressman Thomas Massie, the representative for Kentucky’s fourth congressional district since 2012, which called NATO ‘a Cold War relic that needs to be relegated to a talking kiosk at the Smithsonian’. 

Musk’s post comes in the wake of calls by other Republican lawmakers to reconsider the country’s NATO membership.   

Utah senator Mike Lee, a longstanding NATO critic, has called the organisation a ‘cold war relic’ and argued that it offers a ‘great deal for Europe’ but a ‘raw deal for America’.  

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