Posted on 12/06/2019 7:08:06 AM PST by Future Snake Eater
As House Democrats invited Ivy League shrews to publicly grind their Trump-hating axe during Wednesday’s disastrous impeachment charade, President Trump returned home after confronting our allies again about their lagging financial support of NATO. The stale pact turns 70 this year and like too many Boomers these days, NATO is out of fresh ideas and still listening to worn tracks of “Back in the U.S.S.R.” while the rest of the world is listening to Drake.
Also like so many Boomers, NATO members have made financial promises they won’t keep, stacking up IOUs for someone else to pay and hoping no one notices. But Trump, a Boomer himself, is having none of it.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau struggled to explain his country’s failure to fulfill the alliance’s agreement to earmark two percent of gross domestic product for defense spending—according to a NATO report, Canada only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense in 2018: The United States spent nearly triple that amount. (While dismal, Canada’s expenditure last year is an improvement over 2014 when it only spent 1 percent.)
So Trump used a press conference to challenge Trudeau. “We’ll put Canada on a payment plan, I’m sure the prime minister would love that,” Trump jabbed when asked by a reporter about Canada’s reneging on their NATO pledge.
After Trump pressed for a percentage—Trudeau had to refer to an aide for the exact number—the Candians claimed they were at 1.4 percent. “They’ll get there. They know it’s important,” the president added.
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The sooner that organization is burned to the ground, the better in my opinion.
NO ONE is listing to Drake....... NO ONE!
I have had some good experiences with State Dept. people. But they were all low-level people at embassies, helping to straighten out some mess for a relative who was in that country.
It was out of fresh ideas in 1989, even before the impending fall of the Soviet Union, the fate of which would have been foretold by any good intelligence agent, except by that time in the world's history we had none. It's the same problem today. Not missing for a minute Putin's ambitions, the country is backward, bankrupt and makes no product anyone participating in a free market would choose to purchase. The economy is largely sustained by commodities for which their is a well-established international market with well-known international prices.
NATO is a self-perpetuating bureaucracy. First and foremost the member ‘employees’ want to keep living life large on other peoples (our) money. Anything else is accidental.
The very same people who were completely surprised by 9/11 and swore up and down Iraq was festooned with endless stockpiles of WMD.
I’ve talked with a few US Army NCOs and officers who were stationed in Belgium at NATO HQ. Sounds like the non-Americans are out for the day generally by noon, not really having done anything in the preceding hours anyway. Thank God the Soviet hordes never invaded.
Not completely so. Kaspersky Lab does some very good anti-virus software. Also, they make some indispensable rocket launchers.
The State Department has been the HQ of the globalist effort to steal the country from the citizens.
What a great article! Thanks for posting.
I always suspected Kaspersky’s brother was in the next room, writing all the new viruses. Family business. :)
I too have had only limited interactions with the State Department. I also have had that bad taste in my mouth.
Who is “Drake?”
Ten years after my Army Retirement, I became a member of the vaunted Foreign Service. The applicant and interview process is rigorous, ensuring that “the smartest person in the room” is hired. The problem with hiring college grads who were always “the smartest person in the room” is that once the room is full of them it becomes a nasty everyone of them self environment of backstabbing colleagues, theft, and collusion of unsavory groups of like minded liars and dysfunctional individuals shrouded in the all the code speak of the DNC. Add in a covert 13-15% CIA presence and you have yet another layer of bullshit going on at State, and missions abroad. Political appointees, Obama and Hillary Worshipers abounded during those times, and an opposition to Republican leadership going well past munity openly with management. Then there is the issue of not only political appointee Ambassadors, but even intelligence officers serving at the highest levels in every part of State.
Having a liberal anti-republican organization like State needs to be cleansed and because foreign service officers are Commissioned Officers just like in the military, they must be held to the same standard of “duty, honor, Country, loyalty, conduct) as the military and the FBI. Too many folks at State have no understanding of the responsibilities of being Commissioned Officers and act just as if they were still at colleges as protesters or professors.
My wife is still at State. She is a logical woman. She has problems with many of the people there and daily sees the dysfunctional workforce. I wish she were closer to retirement but you work where you need to retire if you are so lucky. She followed me 18 years overseas as a mother and employee of State and the Army, and she lost four years of employment due to being “when actually employed” which is a travesty of injustice considering you work side-by-side with the spooks, State, US AID, and every other agency.
The person who said folks at State are basically “brats” nailed it because these folks fell special and entitled.
Having spent 14-months there at the Contracting Office, I did not see that... but maybe he means that they do little or no work many days.
Russia does make SOME excellent products. Spirits, chocolate, and ice cream that can exceed any equivalent western product in quality come to mind.
Very good article.
The State Department has been a center of political Left power for 70 years.
This is excellent news.
It's a male duck.
Couldn't tell you. I've had the opportunity to go there several times, but I've managed to avoid it so far.
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