from Renee Nal’s article:
“Without NATO, Europe will be left virtually defenseless against Russian military aggression.
“Trump was quoted as saying,
“NATO is costing us a fortune, and yes, we’re protecting Europe with NATO, but we’re spending a lot of money.”
“Not surprisingly, Vladimir Putin also wants NATO to go away.”
Perfect! DT can make a deal with putin to stay out of Europe and then we don’t have to send our military to the bases over there. Except the base in Spain that is close to Africa. Where were the Special Ops teams that were told to stand down for Benghazi? Where do we do joint military exercises? The Marines of 1/8 were doing winter training in Norway. I guess they didn’t learn any winter survival skills or anything else of value.
“Not surprisingly, Vladimir Putin also wants NATO to go away.”
Two totally different statements that have nothing to do with the other, unless you want to leave out the rest of what Trump said....for some reason.
He also stated that the NATO members need to step up and do more that they rely on us too much.....but including that wouldn't fit your agenda now, would it?
That's the problem with zealots on wither side, they star becoming disingenuous to bolster their arguments...aka, lying.
Might help if Europe quit inviting in the enemy too...but that's just me.
Trump did not say we should get out of it. He said the other member countries that benefit more directly from it than we do are paying relatively little and should pay more. I agree. Look at what each country in NATO contributes and remember that the bottom line is NATO exists to defend Europe. European countries should care more than we do about funding the defense of it. Norway, which you mentioned, spends 1.4% of its GDP and some NATO countries spend less than 1% of their GDP on defense. We spend 3.5% of our GDP on defense. I think it is more than OK to ask them to kick in a bit more on their own defense.
Fort Drum works very well for Winter training too and it is much cheaper.