[MichaelCorleone]

I thought it was agreed upon that NATO was obsolete and better just to dismantle it and everyone fend for themselves.

Many of these NATO countries are on track to becoming de facto muslim anyway, aren’t they?

[chuckee]

The EU has a population of 500 million, a gdp of 20 trillion and spends 240 billion on defense.Russia on the other hand has a population of 145 million, a gdp of 2 trillion and defense spending of 85 billion annually.And the EU cannot defend itself against Russia why?

[kabar]

This has been a long time in coming. It goes back decades when we used to call it burden-sharing. The Europeans have been able to fund their welfare states because the US provided the security umbrella. It is high time that as the world's largest debtor nation, we demand that our allies pay their fair share.

The same holds true for the UN.

[wiseprince]

I find it hilarious that they can’t meet the 2% commitment to defend themselves but they are willing to make more commitments in the form of Paris accords and other climate lies. What assurances are there that they’ll ever meet THOSE commitments?

[pierrem15]

In brief: there is no and never has been any conflict on NATO policy between Mattis and Trump, despite all the fake news to the contrary.