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Trump is Right, America is Funding the Defense of the Free World
Conservative Review ^ | 04/05/16 | John Gray

Posted on 04/07/2016 1:18:32 PM PDT by writer33

The North American Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance between North America and Europe – overall, 28 members. The organization is self-funded, with each country owing a percentage based on their economic resources. As you can imagine, the United States provides the largest share of funding.

Since NATO’s founding in 1949, there has been criticism that the U.S. is carrying the weight of what is ultimately a European defense. In a recent campaign stop in Wisconsin, Donald Trump resurrected that criticism, noting that the United States is “giving them [Europe] military protection and other things, and they’re ripping off the United States. And you know what we do? Nothing.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nato; trump
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Good piece.
1 posted on 04/07/2016 1:18:33 PM PDT by writer33
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Uncle Sucker.

We provide a shield over Europe (for a bunch of whining, dhimmi sissies), a shield over Japan, and we pay large sums for the UN (an organization which likes to rip the US and the US’s ally Israel).


2 posted on 04/07/2016 1:20:54 PM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: writer33

Since well before NATO.

At least since 1939.


3 posted on 04/07/2016 1:21:40 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: writer33

If America won’t, then who will?


4 posted on 04/07/2016 1:21:59 PM PDT by Durbin
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To: writer33

Trump is absolutely correct on this.


5 posted on 04/07/2016 1:22:59 PM PDT by dead
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Of course Trump is correct. But that doesn’t matter to the Globalists and their Media.


6 posted on 04/07/2016 1:24:13 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: writer33

This is another subject that no one would be discussing were Mr. Trump not in the race.


7 posted on 04/07/2016 1:24:16 PM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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>>>This is another subject that no one would be discussing were Mr. Trump not in the race<<<

I have no doubt all the Bernie supporters want us to stop defending other countries too. And in 10-20 years, we won’t be able to afford to do it anyways.


8 posted on 04/07/2016 1:25:38 PM PDT by BJ1
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What “free” world?

The Communists won.

And soon the Muslims will triumph even more thoroughly.

Liberty is not only dying, it will soon become an anathema in the eyes of world’s “opinion leaders”


9 posted on 04/07/2016 1:25:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I think its worse than that.

I think our nanny-state progressives, in concert with the EU statists and proto-fascists, are providing security cover for the EU’s slow cultural suicide.

If Merkel can afford to twist arms to keep the PIIGS on life-support and in the EU, and can manage to import 2 million illiterate Muslim immigrants, She and Germany can afford to pay for their own defense against the bogeyman Putin.


10 posted on 04/07/2016 1:26:48 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Durbin

Maybe they should spend less on free sex change operations and provide for their own defense.


11 posted on 04/07/2016 1:28:15 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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Liberty is not only dying, it will soon become an anathema in the eyes of world’s “opinion leaders”

Look what is happening in Germany.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/07/a-german-comedian-read-a-lewd-poem-about-turkeys-erdogan-now-he-could-face-jail-time/

12 posted on 04/07/2016 1:28:15 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: writer33

Yes, he is correct. Which only confirms the old adage that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.


13 posted on 04/07/2016 1:29:48 PM PDT by NRx (It's sad when there is no one running for President that I can vote for with a clear conscience.)
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To: writer33

Isn’t this Mark Levin’s publication?


14 posted on 04/07/2016 1:29:49 PM PDT by Suz in AZ
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15 posted on 04/07/2016 1:30:45 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Chgogal
section 103 of the German penal code states that "whosoever insults a foreign head of state ... shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding three years or a fine."

Yes, I 'm sure they were applying that rigorously during the Bush years. Not.

16 posted on 04/07/2016 1:34:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: writer33

Rising Threats-Shrinking Military - Obama Guts & Demoralizes the Military in Dangerous Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFu_yduSj8

more interviews...

Rising Threats: Shrinking Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPx83VoLyY&feature=youtu.be


17 posted on 04/07/2016 1:34:25 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Suz in AZ

This is Conservative Review. Levin is the Editor-n-Chief, but doesn’t own the place.


18 posted on 04/07/2016 1:34:59 PM PDT by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: Suz in AZ

Why, yes it is Suz.

Could The Great One have had an epiphany?


19 posted on 04/07/2016 1:35:33 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Nothing imtimidates evil more than when the redeemed become fearless.)
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To: writer33

Seriously, how is this news and how did Trump suddenly discover it. Its been talked about on FR for years.


20 posted on 04/07/2016 1:37:16 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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