NATO failed and continues to fail in it's response to the Ukraine/Russia war that Russia started by illegally invading Ukraine. While Ukraine is not a NATO member, the threat to NATO was clear. NATO (including the US) should have responded with force instead with diplomacy and a few weapons at a time. Biden pussy-footed around trying to not escalate things when Russia blatantly and forcefully violated Ukraine's sovereignty.
In fairness, we did not know at the time that Russia's army, though large, was as weak, ineffective, and internally rotten as it was. But we still should have given Ukraine far more support far more faster than we did. That would have ended that war years ago.
Regarding what Trump duly notes, that is irrelevant for two reasons. 1. Congress, not Trump, decides to fund and/or withdraw from NATO. 2. Trump's credibility has eroded.
The Supreme Court greatly limited his tariff power. His approval rating in America has cratered. It is widely expected that Trump's power will be further limited when the Democrats retake the House in the midterm elections and possibly the Senate. Other nations, large and small, are finding it increasingly easy to say no to a leader they increasingly see as a fool who acts on impulse, without heeding the advice of competent advisors.
Trump is a fool with a flamethrower, which is an increasingly dangerous situation as his dementia progresses and his impulse control degrades. That danger is exemplified in the war he just started.
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