[Little Ray]

VP Pence needs to also point to the Euroweenies that their military is a not a social program... Just in case they try to weasel out that way.

[Spktyr]

Good. The Euros will now have to begin choosing between their lavish welfare states aka vote-buying and paying for their own defense.

[bigbob]

When Trump said “NATO is obsolete” I think that meant the old model in which the US does all the work and the other don’t pay their share. Staying committed to NATO doesn’t mean we are going to be chumps.

[LucyT]

Pence to NATO: You’d better step up your game by Christmas, folks

Comments w article;

The US funds over 70% of NATO'S budget. ... Out of $900 billion spent annually on NATO America accounts for $650 billion of it.

Enough excuses for the deadbeats in NATO, in particular for the German succubus. It's been more than 75 years since the end of WWII and the US-UK liberation of western Europe, and its been 25 years since the end of the cold war and liberation of eastern Europe. - Time for long-time allies and newer friends to act like adult countries and fulfill the most basic requirements of a nation-state; to keep their citizens safe by providing for the common defense. If not, they don't deserve to exist..

There are only five NATO countries meeting their treaty obligation of spending at least a paltry 2% of their GDP for a military for their own defense. Aside from the US and UK, there is tiny Estonia, front-line Poland, and broke Greece.. The rest, to varying degrees, are stiffing NATO.

Particularly insulting are those deadbeats that have been, or currently on, the front-line and who are unwilling to take their security seriously. They are:.

Hungary - spends 1.01% of their GDP, stiffing NATO 1.2B annum..

Denmark spends 1.17% of GDP, stiffing NATO 2.5B per annum.

Slovakia, spends 1.16% of GDP, stiffing NATO 279M per annum.

Germany spends 1.19% of GDP stiffing NATO 27.5B per annum.

Romania, 1.48%, stiffing NATO 933M per annum..

Latvia, 1.45%, stiffing NATO 149M per annum..

Lithuania, 1.49%, stiffing NATO 210M per annum..

Turkey, 1.56%. stiffing NATO 2.2B per annum..

The German shortfall, in particular, is insufferable. For fifty years NATO defended West Germany from a Soviet invasion. Today, while the Germans reputedly spend 50 percent of their government budget on their lavish welfare state, and spend billions more on refugee programs and "green" energy fads, they have the gall to whine about Poland and the US holding joint operations? (The German Army is a nothing-burger of 238 tanks).

It is Poland who will now take the brunt of any Russian aggression, and if Germany, the richest country in Europe, does not have the spine to trim entitlements in order to defend themselves, why should anyone defend them? Really?.

As it stands, most of Europe shorts NATO a total of 105 billion a year. Its time for them to pay up or get out of NATO. If not, perhaps the US ought to let them know they will no longer be obligated to defend them..

[TalBlack]

It’s my impression that Trump’s VP is more engaged than VP’s of the recent past. Anyone else get this feeling?

[chuckee]

Merkel told Pence yesterday Germany is making progress in
their defense spending and they expect to be fully invested in 8 years!! Personally I do not care how much the EU eventually contributes, I want the US out of this most entangling of all permanent alliances that George Washington warned the Republic against. Next time a million people show up in their center cities to protest the US, they should throw a net around them and drag them to the Russian front as fodder for Russian target practice.

[PGR88]

Europeans live in a leftist bubble, whose pillars are massive debt, a totally printed currency, and control over media and large business. The US plays a role too, securing their defense and helping the progressives in Brussels make sure the outlier states are tied to their social-engineering politics and schemes.

We are seeing the next phase of these European social engineering schemes.

End NATO - make Europe defend itself.

[Psalm 144]

Only about a half century late notice to our military parasites, but better late than never.

Besides, every pfennig the EUniks have to spend on their own defense is one less the grifters can give to their Moslem ‘guests’.

[Mariner]

It’s important to note the NATO agreement on defe3nse spending has assigned percentages for equipment, supplies/ammo and personnel.

So they can’t cheat by expanding the Boy Scouts.

[SgtHooper]

Nice to hear from you, VP Pence!! Bring the hammer down!