House republicans voted against even a symbolic measure reaffirming support for nato. i mean, on the one hand it would be very unexpected for a nato member like the u. s. to block new countries joining the alliance, on the other hand, given the parties involved, and given the weird trumpy feelings about putin and the republican party now, maybe this is a real thing to worry about? joining us now is washington post reporter who wrote that piece for the washington post, aaron blake. it is nice to see you, thank you for making time to be here tonight. thank you. i have oversimplified this a little bit. i acknowledge. but let me just ask you to correct me if i have got any of the basic points wrong here. you are basically raising the prospect that because of internal republican party dynamics, and ideological shifts within the republican party, particularly in the trump era, they might not vote to let these two new countries join nato. look, i think the
In the united states, that would require at least two thirds of the u.s. senate to vote to ratify their membership. exactly how that debate would go down could be quite interesting, especially in light of the republican parties slight that significant trump era drift into more skepticism of nato. and the looming unknown would be trump himself weighing in on the process, and not necessarily in favor. just last week, more than 30% of house republicans voted against even a symbolic measure reaffirming support for nato. i mean, on the one hand it would be very unexpected for a nato member like the u.s. to block new countries joining the alliance, on the other hand, given the parties involved, and given the weird trumpy feelings about putin and the republican party now, maybe this is a real thing to worry about? joining us now is washington post reporter who wrote that piece for the washington post, aaron blake. it is nice to see you, thank you for making time to be here tonight. thank yo