Trump may not be happy with a lot going on in NATO but it is pretty obvious that the consensus of his cabinet is that NATO is still valuable.
White House national security adviser Michael Flynn will recommend that President Donald Trump support allowing the small Balkan nation of Montenegro to join NATO, POLITICO has learned — despite strong opposition from Russia.
The move will be a major test of the new administration’s policy toward Moscow, which considers any further eastward expansion of the Western military alliance a provocation.
Other NATO countries and the U.S. Senate widely support granting membership to the nation of 650,000 people, which once was part of the former Yugoslavia. Montenegro’s leaders have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of fomenting instability inside the country to erode support for joining the alliance — including alleged plots by pro-Russian movements last year to attack the parliament and assassinate the prime minister.
But Flynn, one of Trump’s key advisers, “is expected to recommend Montenegro’s accession into NATO to Trump in the coming days,” a senior administration official said Monday in response to questions.
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Montenegro’s membership in NATO is non-controversial within NATO and it is non-controversial in the US Senate. It is controversial just one place. In Russia and with the Russian Fifth Column bankrolled by Moscow in Montenegro.
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US-Russia Conflict Is Brewing Over This State’s NATO Membership https://t.co/xz7k9mVirt
— RedState (@RedState) February 7, 2017
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