On Tuesday he introduced a bill to get the United States out of NATO. And although it has a steep and slippery cliff to ascend, the bill provides hope for an idea whose time will, hopefully — maybe — eventually come.

Massie's NATO Act is a companion bill to Senator Mike Lee's (R-Utah) NATO Act introduced in June. Both bills also share the title "Not A Trusted Organization Act."

The latter title is especially fitting. In the text of his bill, Massie explains why. "Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, United States Secretary of State James Baker made assurances to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand eastward," the bill says. Yet "despite its waning relevance and prior assurance to the contrary, NATO began a profound eastward expansion in 1999, which, as of 2025, culminated in a land border with the Russian Federation that exceeds 1,500 miles and encircles the Baltic Sea."

Massie continues :

Successive National Military Doctrines and National Security Strategies of the Russian Federation have framed the expansion of NATO as a pervasive threat to Russian security. In a speech before the Munich Security Conference in 2007, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin described NATO expansion as a "serious provocation" and referenced the assurances previously made by the United States. The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2022 demonstrates the Russian Federation's willingness to employ military action in response to perceived security threats. NATO members have refused to rule out further expansion.

Broken Promise

Massie, who has a voting record that consistently aligns with the U.S. Constitution, a record rarely matched in its fealty since his entry into Congress more than a decade ago, makes a point about NATO expansion and Russia that has been slandered as "Russian propaganda." This is not wholly unlike the "antisemitic" label lobbed at anyone with the audacity to question America's foreign aide policy with Israel (all foreign aide should be eliminated), or disagreed with Israel's indiscriminate carpet bombing of Gaza (any nation that kills tens of thousands of women and children deserves scrutiny).