Posted on 10/27/2023 5:57:32 AM PDT by McGruff
Donald Trump wanted to pull the United States out of NATO during his first term, but was repeatedly talked out of it by senior administration officials. For a possible second term in the White House, the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner is already discussing how he could actually get it done, if his demands aren’t met by NATO. He and his policy-wonk allies are also gaming out how he could dramatically wind down American involvement to merely a “standby” position in NATO, in Trump’s own words.
When the former president has privately discussed the United States’ role in the transatlantic military alliance this year, Trump has made clear that he doesn’t want the upper ranks of a second administration to be staffed by “NATO lovers,” according to two sources who’ve heard him make such comments. The ex-president has made these kinds of jabs at the longstanding alliance during conversations related to the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.
Trump, the sources say, has continued to express an openness to pulling the U.S. out of NATO altogether.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
“What does NATO do again?”
It illegally bombs countries like Serbia and Libya. No big deal. Why do you ask?
6 men go to dinner together. One is very rich, the others middle class to poor, but they are all friends. At the end of the dinner, the 5 less well-off men get together and decide the bill should be split according to the individual’s ability to pay. The poorest pays nothing, the others a fraction of their total bill for their individual dinners. Being a democratic group, the rich man accepts the situation reluctantly.
The group plans on having this dinner together weekly.
The next week, there are only 5. The rich man decided he didn’t need to subsidize the dinners for all of the others, so he just stopped coming.
Well they don’t really do anything.
What do they do??
NATO is just a tripwire. The same type that sparked WWI.
It’s an organization that has outlived any good it ever did.
Excellent!
Couldn't be Better News!
cue the spiderman meme...
i already said i was voting for trump, you don’t have to sell me.
Ask anyone from any reasonable NATO nation and they will tell you on the street the truth:
Without the USA there is NO NATO.
Only a few Nations have kept their pledges/contracts for military costs, and the rest of the burden has been squarely placed on the backs of American taxpayers.
The Rolling Stone headline is so typical of left wing nuts, they loose the truth with the headline. The truth should say that Trump is trying to make sure NATO works, and get everyone off the back of the American Taxpayer.
Bad orange man helping Russia again? /S They just make this crap up!
1984 is the instruction manual for the leftists.
Big Brother = Joe and his cadre of leftists Marxists.
Big Brother’s watchers = FBI CIA etc.
Ministry of Truth = our leftist media
Daily minute of hate = leftist progressive activists
State enforcement arm = our Department of Justice
The enemy of the State = Eurasia (Russia Europe)
Double speak Double think = White House Press Secretary
ps
As a young man 50 years ago I read 1984. I found it delightful fiction, little did I know it was a warning. I read it again a couple of years ago. This time it was a chilling comment on reality. George Orwell was truly a Sage before his time.
Typical. “The Rolling Stoned”.
NATO made sense when it was a US UK partnership to dominate Western Europe.
The UK is too weak to be much of a partner. Now they are out of the EU so then have no influence there.
Time to get out.
Obviously these idiots don’t understand The Art Of The Deal.
The point was to get the other NATO countries to pony up more for their defense.
Why do I think that before the dissolution of the USSR, Rolling Stone would have been in favor of disbanding NATO?
Trumps problem is that if he can’t deal, he does nothing
Europe can only afford their socialism because the American Taxpayer is subsidizing their defense.
It’s a global system of corruption burning through US money and cultivating anti-American sentiment
N.A.T.O. No Action Talk Only.
How about we protect the southern border first.
“Trump always only wants to get his way, while Biden, who loves kittens, truly cares about other countries and cultures.”
Just another day in American media.
“That’s OUR NATO now!”
I remember when Tony Blair referred to Kosovo, as “The First Progressive War”.
Exactly.
Take our tax dollars
I don’t think pulling out of NATO would be a bad thing. It’s like the U.N. A useless Cold War dinosaur.
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