Yes - tough talk threading to pull the US out of NATO and Europe made are friends in Europe FEAR they can’t count on the US to come to their defense with an isolationist line Trump as the leader of the free world. That certainly delighted Putin and hoping for four more years of that.
In
a 2016 interview with
The New York Times, Trump described NATO as “obsolete” and “unfair, economically, to … the United States.” As president, Trump berated other NATO nations for not meeting certain fundraising benchmarks and toyed with the idea of leaving the alliance. According to the
Times,
Trump in 2018 “told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States.”
NATO without the US would be weak - That’s why Putin loves Trump. and hates Biden.