Republican Thomas Massie, a member of the US House of Representatives from Kentucky, has introduced a bill, HR 6508, to remove the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, he revealed on his own website.
It requires the president to officially notify NATO of the US withdrawal under Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty. The Republican argues that NATO's original purpose from the Cold War era no longer corresponds to the current interests of the US for national security.
Thomas Massie points out that the European members of NATO have adequate economic and military capacity to ensure their own defense.
„NATO is a relic of the Cold War. "We should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our own country, not socialist countries," the Republican representative said.