LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said NATO was obsolete because it had not defended against terror attacks, but that the military alliance was still very important to him, The Times of London reported.
“I took such heat, when I said NATO was obsolete,” Trump told the newspaper in an interview. “It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror. I took a lot of heat for two days. And then they started saying Trump is right.”
Trump added that many NATO members were not paying their fair share for U.S. protection.
“A lot of these countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to be paying, which I think is very unfair to the United States,” Trump said. “With that being said, NATO is very important to me. There’s five countries that are paying what they’re supposed to. Five. It’s not much.”
I already check mated you ETL, and now you are still diverting off into other subjects like NATO. Anyhow, where is the Warsaw Pack? Oh that’s right gone over a 1/4 of a Century Ago.
Hey maybe you should go fight Nazi Germany since you like to live in the past. NEWS FLASH MCFLY... Hitler and the Nazis have been over since 1945. World War II is over. We won! Oh but I am sure you still want to pretend they are still around and we should fund to fight Nazi Germany right???
Furthermore, you now want the United States to continue to pay Welfare for the defense of Europe instead of having Europe pay it’s own way. How long does Europe have to remain on welfare? It’s been a long time since WWII and why are we paying almost all of it. What half a century is not long enough for Europe????
The only reason we formed NATO in the past is so that Europe would not fall under communism after it was destroyed in World War II. Yet today we embrace the Communist Chinese. That’s irony for you.