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Trump worries Nato with 'obsolete' comment
BBC ^ | January 16, 2017

Posted on 01/16/2017 9:07:31 AM PST by Navy Patriot

A statement by US President-elect Donald Trump that Nato is "obsolete" has caused "worry" in the alliance, Germany's foreign minister says.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was a contradiction of comments made days ago by Mr Trump's incoming defence chief.

Mr Trump also said German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made "a catastrophic mistake" by admitting more than one million migrants.

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It seems US policy will be run less by European Globalists under President Trump!

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1 posted on 01/16/2017 9:07:32 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

In my book NATO IS obsolete and has outlived its purpose.

They lost me when the allowed Obama to lead from behind and did the bombing in Libya on his and Hillary’s behalf.


2 posted on 01/16/2017 9:10:28 AM PST by Gaffer (P)
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To: Navy Patriot

As long as Turkey is in NATO, NATO is worse than obsolete.


3 posted on 01/16/2017 9:10:40 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Trump the truth speaker.

If you like your NATO alliance, then you’re going to have to pay for your NATO alliance. The days of American paying for your defense is over.


4 posted on 01/16/2017 9:10:48 AM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: Navy Patriot

You have to be awful dumb to take the statements of testifying before a Senate committee seriously. Its a grandstanding circus. The fact is ultimately Trump will get what he wants. Elections have consequences.


5 posted on 01/16/2017 9:12:27 AM PST by allendale
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To: Navy Patriot

NATO became obsolete after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the USSR.

Bill Clinton kept it alive in part by bringing it in on the side of the muslims in Herzegovina and Bosnia.


6 posted on 01/16/2017 9:14:19 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Navy Patriot

NATO is obsolete not because they lack effective anti-terror police units, but because European leaders in general don’t see a problem with being invaded and islamized by muslim savages. As Mark Steyn says, They’ve become the defenceless, clueless Eloi soon to be enslaved by the islamic morlocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu9K2TCON58


7 posted on 01/16/2017 9:14:20 AM PST by Antioch (Benedikt Gott Geschickt)
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To: Navy Patriot

NATO is just another huge statist bureaucracy


8 posted on 01/16/2017 9:14:35 AM PST by PGR88
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To: RedWulf
The days of American paying for your defense is over.

What he said. Times have changed and we need to update our scorecards. NATO. The UN. The EPA, ATF, IRS, et al in their current configurations have long outlived their usefulness and either need to be seriously modified or eliminated altogether.

9 posted on 01/16/2017 9:14:53 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: RedWulf


"Yes, once again American defence proves its effectiveness against international communism. Using this diagram of a tooth to represent any small country, we can see how international communism works by eroding away form the inside (diagram of tooth rotting from inside and collapsing) When one country or tooth falls victim to international communism, its neighbours soon follow. (the remaining teeth fall sideways into the gap) In dentistry, this is known as Domino Theory. but with American Defense the decay is stopped before it starts and that's why nine out of ten small countries choose American defense."
10 posted on 01/16/2017 9:17:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: allendale

NATO will be obsolete to us when we’re out.

Until then, our neck is on the line for a slew of countries, should war happen.

There are two definitions. No longer used. an Out of Date.

The second one is correct. The first one needs to be done when he gets in office.

Though, to be honest, we all Cheered when Reagan broke up the USSR. It would be wrong to turn our backs on Eastern European countries that Putin just might want back one day.

Missile defense system would have been better than the 3500 boots on the ground.

Arm them and even train them, but get he troops out.


11 posted on 01/16/2017 9:18:40 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Antioch

12 posted on 01/16/2017 9:20:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dp0622
NATO is the new USSR. Or the military wing, at least.

Simple test: how many NATO countries are run by socialists or have a de facto socialist government?

Almost all of them, including the US, qualify.

13 posted on 01/16/2017 9:22:44 AM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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Agreed. Let’s Get the #### out of it, like yesterday!

Cause obsolete or not, our name is still on the roster!!


14 posted on 01/16/2017 9:24:58 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Navy Patriot

NATO attacked Serbia, Libya and is helping kill Christians in Syria by arming Jihadists. US out of NATO now.


15 posted on 01/16/2017 9:25:23 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: RedWulf
The days of American paying for your defense is over.


16 posted on 01/16/2017 9:29:06 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Navy Patriot

“Trump worries Nato with ‘obsolete’ comment”

yeah, Europe, that was the point: tardy payers always get worried when they receive a dunning notice.


17 posted on 01/16/2017 9:32:23 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Gaffer
NATO was originally formed to protect Europe from a mass invasion by hostile forces.

Now it's job is to provide hot meals and build shelters for a mass invasion of hostile Muslim invaders.

NATO is obsolete and needs to be reformed .

In the most likely scenario these days, when Russian tanks come streaming through the Fulda Gap, they won't be met with NATO guns and tanks, they will be met with young girls with flowers begging the Russians to liberate them from the Muslim reign of intimidation, terror and rape.

18 posted on 01/16/2017 9:33:45 AM PST by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ......d)
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To: Gaffer

In my book, NATO is a massive parasite latched onto the US and has been evolving into little more than a transnational organized crime outfit specializing in fraud.


19 posted on 01/16/2017 9:39:58 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Navy Patriot

Never thought I’d see the day that Progs became warmongers. But just part of the President Trump effect, I guess!


20 posted on 01/16/2017 9:41:38 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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