Posted on 07/20/2016 9:52:20 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. wouldn’t necessarily defend other NATO countries if they were attacked by Russia.
In an interview with the New York Times, Mr. Trump essentially said the U.S. would not abide by the military alliance, one provision of which declares an attack on one to be an attack on all.
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Anyone who can’t figure out that Trump is talking about Turkey, is a dodo bird. Trump is subtly warning that if he wins the Presidency, Turkey had better shape up, pronto.
Interesting. In another thread, the subject is Israeli rabbis discussing the imminent coming of the Messiah.
One of those rabbis has been quoted as saying:
“When you hear that the Russians have captured the city of Crimea, you should know that the times of the Messiah have started, that his steps are being heard.
And when you hear that the Russians have reached the city of Constantinople [today’s Istanbul], you should put on your Shabbat clothes and don’t take them off, because it means that the Messiah is about to come any minute.”
Uh, Communism had something to do with it. But for Russian Communism’s compulsion to expand, we would have been allies for most of the 20th Century.
The US and Russia will never be natural allies because they come from totally different backgrounds going back hundreds of years. One is based on the Western tradition of constitutional government and the rule of law, freedom of speech and increasing human rights. Russia has a history of repressive government, political prisoners, secret police, dictatorship, lack of the rule of law in many areas, suppression of free speech, propaganda, invasion and conquest of free countries, and is currently a mafia-controlled kleptocracy.
We do have a few mutual interests such as the control of Islamic radicalism. But in the grand scheme of things they are not our friends.
That’s the point. Better Russia a friend than enemy. If Trump and Putin can make it happen it’s better for all. Better to make a good attempt and tell the Russians what Putin already knows, the eventual alternative would most certainly be in no ones best interest.
...and Greece only makes the percentage cut courtesy of their massive $12 GDP.
OK, obviously you have never been behind the Iron Curtain when it was up. Consider yourself inexperienced. You maybe book learned but life behind the Iron Curtain was miserable. Anyone who believes otherwise is a damn fool.
I don’t know that Russia could ever be a friend to the US. Relations could be far less strained to the point that working together on common interests would be possible. It would be a mistake to believe that Russia would not work against US interest when in conflict with their own, though.
“Anyone who can’t figure out that Trump is talking about Turkey, is a dodo bird.”
Perhaps he’s talking about most of the Baltics, Germany, and pretty much the rest of NATO.
France isn’t even a NATO member, is it?
Judging from the gleeful comments of the political class supported with big government civilian program spending and its love for commie/fascist nations and governments, members of the now robbed and deposed private sector should be building fallout shelters.
Who benefitted from the Cold War?
FYI — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIQVTthsM2Q
Nigel Farage interview on InfoWars — 7min wed 7/20
he is in Cleveland, going to convention and Thursday nite he is
going to be fascinated to hear what Trump says, and how he says it
My answer is: hundreds of millions of people who lived under Soviet slavery who were ultimately freed.
LOL—never mind the Gulag and the Berlin Wall.
Now thats just pathologically ignorant at best. Might want to educate yourself on the actions of the Soviet Union and its goals. Even today Snowden spending the rest of his life in Russia could be considered poetic justice.
"...have fulfilled their treaty obligations to us..." What exactly does that mean?
Then Trump wasn't listening to the question because he was specifically asked about Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and not Turkey. Those are the countries he is apparently willing let dangle in the breeze.
And it's interesting to note that in his acceptance speech Mike Pence said that the U.S. would stand by its allies and criticized Clinton/Obama for abandoning its friends. I guess the Baltic States aren't your friends.
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