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Murdoch Paper Editor Unleashes on Trump Over ‘Mad’ Plan

In another post, he said people bashing NATO are just those “who assumed war with Iran would be a cakewalk.”

A top editor at The Wall Street Journal has questioned President Donald Trump’s threat to blow up the NATO alliance if member countries are not at his beck and call regarding Iran. The paper’s editor-at-large, Gerard Baker, called Trump’s threats “shortsighted.” “We’re going to blow up the most successful alliance in global history, a coalition that continues to help preserve US leadership in the world, because some European states don’t want to join a war of choice that most Americans oppose?” he wrote on X. “Mad. Mad. Mad.” Trump has frequently raged against NATO since striking Iran on Feb. 28, growing furious with member countries that do not allow the U.S. to operate at will from bases inside ally countries, like Spain. The Journal, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 95, has been highly critical of several of Trump’s initiatives in his second term, most notably his economic policy of sweeping tariffs.

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