I agree.
Everyone in NATO needs to fulfill their military obligations.
Right now, many NATO countries do no.
I even think the requirements should be made stricter.
If you don’t oblige for 10 years or somesuch your country is liable to be suspended from NATO.
I guess to try to view this in a positive light.
As a negotiation tactic it will put fire under the feet of all NATO countries to meet their obligations.
The Erdogan comments though...
>The Erdogan comments though...
Almost of all that was editorialized crap to make trump look bad.
For example:
>Asked if Mr. Erdogan was exploiting the coup attempt to purge his political enemies, Mr. Trump did not call for the Turkish leader to observe the rule of law, or Western standards of justice.
— All inserted by the editor.
> “When the world sees how bad the United States is and we start talking about civil liberties, I don’t think we are a very good messenger,” he said.
—Trump actual point which is we’re telling people to do stuff we don’t do ourselves. We won’t impress people when act like hypocrites.
If you’re going the NYT, then you need to read behind the lines to remove the propaganda.
There is no justification for NATO’s continued existence past the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this becomes clearer with every NATO intervention and wargame and threat issued.