TRUMP WINNING AGAIN
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32955/trump-breaks-nato-leaders-pledge-unwavering-ryan-saavedra
TRUMP BREAKS NATO: Leaders Pledge 'Unwavering Commitment' To Boost Defense Spending
Leaders of member nations that belong to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pledged their "unwavering commitment" to increasing their defense funding of the organization after President Donald Trump slammed the group for treating the United States unfairly.
The commitment from European leaders came after Trump publicly embarrassed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting early on Wednesday morning. Fox News reports:
The U.S. and European allies signed a declaration stating they are "committed to improving the balance of sharing the costs and responsibilities of alliance membership."
The declaration comes after confrontational and testy discussions between Trump and other NATO leaders.
"So, we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries," Trump said. "And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. So, we are supposed to protect you against Russia."
"You tell me if that is appropriate." Trump continued. "This has been going on for decades. This has been brought up by other presidents, but other presidents never did anything about it."
"It's very unfair to our country, it's very unfair to our taxpayers," Trump told Stoltenberg. "And I think that these countries have to step it up not over a 10 year period— they have to step it up immediately."
A Tuesday report from Forbes revealed that the U.S. spends more than double in defense spending for NATO than all other NATO members spend combined.
Trump continued hammering NATO after the early morning meeting, tweeting:
National Review noted that Trump suggested that "a commitment of 4 percent would be required to achieve parity with U.S. defense expenditures."
YEAH BABY!!! Trump ain't bending over for anyone!
Obama is very skilled at assuming the position.
That only seems to be important sporadically
But hegemony! Protecting national interests in a forward, prophylactic, and dynamic way is evil!
Its basically Europe deciding how and when the US will come in and fix shit for them and we get that privilege by "donating" a massive amount of money to it.
TRUMP WINNING AGAIN
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32955/trump-breaks-nato-leaders-pledge-unwavering-ryan-saavedra
TRUMP BREAKS NATO: Leaders Pledge 'Unwavering Commitment' To Boost Defense Spending
Leaders of member nations that belong to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pledged their "unwavering commitment" to increasing their defense funding of the organization after President Donald Trump slammed the group for treating the United States unfairly.
The commitment from European leaders came after Trump publicly embarrassed NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting early on Wednesday morning. Fox News reports:
The U.S. and European allies signed a declaration stating they are "committed to improving the balance of sharing the costs and responsibilities of alliance membership."
The declaration comes after confrontational and testy discussions between Trump and other NATO leaders.
"So, we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries," Trump said. "And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia. So, we are supposed to protect you against Russia."
"You tell me if that is appropriate." Trump continued. "This has been going on for decades. This has been brought up by other presidents, but other presidents never did anything about it."
"It's very unfair to our country, it's very unfair to our taxpayers," Trump told Stoltenberg. "And I think that these countries have to step it up not over a 10 year period— they have to step it up immediately."
A Tuesday report from Forbes revealed that the U.S. spends more than double in defense spending for NATO than all other NATO members spend combined.
Trump continued hammering NATO after the early morning meeting, tweeting:
National Review noted that Trump suggested that "a commitment of 4 percent would be required to achieve parity with U.S. defense expenditures."
YEAH BABY!!! Trump ain't bending over for anyone!
Obama is very skilled at assuming the position.
he's not telling the truth though.... he just doesnt know what he is talking about
You're denying that the US funds most of what NATO is? You're denying that the majority of the countries in NATO aren't paying their share?
you guys fund 22% of NATO..... you are mistaking your overall military budget for funds for NATO. Thats not how it works
I do see. You don't believe the US is the only beneficiary of those things do you?
oh no of course not.... but in terms of size and overall GDP for America to only pay 22% while the UK pays 10% is pretty hypocritical of you to claim America pays more. We are roughly a quarter of your size but pay almost half as much. If anyone should complain its us lol
Everyone is "supposed" to contribute 2% of GDP. 5 of the 29 countries in NATO actually meet that criteria and several of the countries that don't are leaders in world trade. I don't want to hear some shit about how they've agreed to meet the criteria in 8 years either. Do it now.
thats not NATO contributions.... thats military budgets, and that was a target to be reached by 2024. Trump again doesnt realise that it is not a yearly mandate.
I misread this.
well of course that would be you guys choice. We wouldnt want that but if it happened we would adapt.
hardly.... The UK is still one of the top military powers and combined with France and Germany(if the re-expanded) Europe would be pretty formidable
Well of course not. You enjoy American defense at American cost, while keeping us on a leash. Why wouldn't you want that?
Hardly, my ass. An estimated 3/4 of NATO's military prowess comes from the US.
Im from the UK, we dont "need" your protection. You could close all bases in the UK and we wouldnt care. We are a miltary force and can defend our island.
