Merkel, May and Macron just don’t get it. Trump is delivering the 3M dunces a message. If you are indifferent to defending your own borders and cultural heritage, don’t expect Americans yet again to sacrifice blood and treasure to save your sorry asses.
It was a wonderful thing to watch the Secretary General of NATO fumble as he grasped for words to respond to the President’s honest statements of fact to him about his country.
Cut ALL military aid to nato. See how long their grand socialistic societies remain so.
All the work of Schoeder. He signed a deal with Russia to side skirt Poland via the Baltic Sea for a gas pipeline after Poland balked at being controlled by Moscow over it’s energy pricing.
As a reward as soon as he left office he was placed on the boards of entities controlled by Gazprom by Putin.
So where is Europe supposed to get natural gas at an affordable price. If the answer is the US, then transporting across the ocean is expensive. We need Russia not swimming in money, but we also don’t need them desperate.
This is simple logic but these people don’t got it.
Wow, that was the most incredible takedown of Germany that I have seen. Impressive...
Angrla Merkel responded by saying she grew up in East Germany. But, now Germans can make their own decisions.
True. However, that doesn’t prevent them from making illogical or questionable decisions.
There is no correct answer for Germany on this one.
Amen! Another truth bomb dropped on the smug entitled German elites. They’ll wail and moan but it’s all true and they know it.
Trump is a BOSS. My assumption is NATO members better lower trade barriers to US goods or 70% of NATO funding will be put to another use. Trump is resetting world trade and the US can only benefit in the long run.
USA president Donald J. Trump tells one and all,
"We're not going to put up with it...."
A bunch of nuclear powerplants could fix that in short order, but nooooooo, Euroweenies don’t like nukes.
All the more reason to pull out of NATO. I wish Trump would stop tap-dancing around the issue and pull the plug on our membership. Do it today. At this meeting.
Get Out Of NATO! The entire concept is absurd! We, American’s foot the bill for a defense of Europe, think EU, against What? Are we defending Europe against Russia? Russia has a GDP the size of Texas and smaller than Italy, France, Germany or the UK! We Americans have carried the burden for 75 years of defending a wealthy, prosperous Europe! It’s time they grow up and pay for their own toys!
Every time you hear someone talk about NATO and defending Europe against Russia, just think about this: The combined GDP of USA and EU = 36T! The size of the Russian Economy is 1.5T!
The EU economy alone is 17T against a Russian economy of 1.5T; that is smaller than South Korea. In population the combined EU is 508M while Russia is only 143M.
Russia is the great mystery threat that is always hauled out, by the Europeans, to keep American taxpayers paying for the collective defense of Europe! President Trump should tell them to Man UP and defend their own countries!
I suppose this attack and divide on Germany and Russia is part of a diplomatic strategy to keep NATO relevant as a buffer between Russia and Europe but...
wait and see
I love how plain spoken POTUS is. Have you ever noticed how career politicians can talk and you have absolutely no idea what they said? POTUS doesn’t speak political jabberwocky. He is clear.
I hope he moves our military from Germany, I don’t like the idea that our 40,000 men & women are in a country with over a million jihadi invasion army.
That’s mighty rude of Trump. Accusing Russia of “owning” Germany after Putin helped him get in the White House and all.
Hillary would have shown much more gratitude. /S
The Germans shut down ALL their many nuclear power plants when Merkel stayed in power by adding the greens to her coalition. This resulted in the construction of many coal plants to replace them. They import dirtier coal...
Great clip, Trump verbally spanking Merkel over and over again for the world to see. I wonder what he’ll talk to her about privately....