Elon Musk is betting on the United States leaving NATO and the UN

BarcelonaBillionaire businessman Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump's main supporters and with great influence over the president, has expressed his support for the United States to leave NATO and the United Nations. This position by the richest man in the world, and one of the people with the greatest influence over the American leader, comes after the historic confrontation between Trump and his number two, JD Vance, with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office; and also after of an obvious and public rapprochement between Washington and the Kremlin.

Musk shared a post on Saturday night from an American user of the X network (which he owns) that said: "It's time to leave NATO and the UN." The entrepreneur reposted it and wrote: "I agree." He also shared another post that called the Atlantic Alliance a "relic of the Cold War" that should be relegated to a museum.

Although there are already signs of a distancing between the United States and the rest of its Western allies, such a step would mean the definitive collapse of the international order created after World War II with the aim of trying to guarantee global security. Musk's tweet also comes as European leaders are supporting Zelensky in London with a peace proposal for Ukraine that includes security guarantees, presumably through NATO.

When NATO was created in 1949, the United States took the lead role in defending Europe against the main threat, the Soviet Union. However, Donald Trump has long made it clear that he considers this an unequal and unfair relationship, and demands that European countries significantly increase their military spending. He has even threatened to leave the allies in the lurch that they do not provide sufficient resources in case they are attacked.

In addition to advocating for the United States to leave the Atlantic Alliance and the United Nations, Elon Musk has made, in the last few hours, several posts in which he blames Volodymyr Zelensky for the war in his country, as Trump and Vance did on Friday. "What I said more than 2 years ago was that Ukraine should seek peace or suffer many deaths without gains. Zelensky chose the latter. Now he wants to do it again. This is cruel and inhuman," the South African tycoon wrote.