Posted on 07/12/2018 12:40:11 PM PDT by tcrlaf
President Donald Trump on Thursday said NATO allies agreed to “substantially up their commitment” to the alliance after he told leaders he was “extremely unhappy.”
“Tremendous progress has been made. Everyone’s agreed to substantially up their commitment. They’re going to up it at levels that they’ve never thought of before,” Trump said at his press conference in Brussels.
“Commitments were made,” he said. “The commitment was at 2 percent, ultimately that’ll be going up quite a bit higher than that.”
French President Emmanuel Macron denied that any NATO members had agreed to boost contributions beyond 2 percent GDP.
“There is a communique that was published yesterday. It’s very detailed,” Macron said, per the Associated Press. “It confirms the goal of 2 percent by 2024. That’s all.”
Macron also denied reports that Trump had threatened to withdraw from the NATO alliance.
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Trump said our “allies” agreed.
Doesn’t always include France.
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Includes France a helluva lot more times than it includes Germany!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or even England!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
GO BLEUS!!!!
I think Trump accomplished what he wanted here. Gets them on record about GDP.
Move everything out of Germany to Poland! Simple remedy.
Who ya gonna believe - the soy, or your lying eyes?
Lets just pull out and forget it.
I have had dishonest European parasites right up to my neck!
Let them fend for themselves.
The Art of the Deal is about cutting off the allowances of Macron the SoyBoy and Herr Merkel when they don't ask "how high" when President Trump says "jump".
The cheese-eating surrender macron is gonna find that out right quick, cabrón.
Macron isn’t even living up to his original 2% promise. Trudeau needs to quit running his trap about Trump with his teeny little .99%. I say the US doesn’t contribute a dime over the lowest country. And cut funding to the UN and zero goes to any who spit on us.
The 2016 figures http://www.businessinsider.com/nato-share-breakdown-country-2017-2 :
United States, 3.61%.
Greece, 2.38%.
Britain, 2.21%.
Estonia, 2.16%.
Poland, 2%.
France, 1.78%.
Turkey, 1.56%.
Norway, 1.54%.
Lithuania, 1.49%.
Romania, 1.48%.
Latvia, 1.45%.
Portugal, 1.38%.
Bulgaria, 1.35%.
Croatia, 1.23%.
Albania, 1.21%.
Germany, 1.19%.
Denmark, 1.17%.
Netherlands, 1.17%.
Slovakia, 1.16%.
Italy, 1.11%.
Czech Republic, 1.04%.
Hungary, 1.01%.
Canada, 0.99%.
Slovenia, 0.94%.
Spain, 0.91%.
Belgium, 0.85%.
Luxembourg, 0.44%.
Good. Then there’s no reason we should have to give anything until 2024.
I don’t think Trump said anyone agreed to more than two percent, only that the contribution would ultimately go higher than that. Macron is an ass, made to bear but who ultimately must be borne.
Resumed full membership in 2009.
Move everything out of Germany to Texas. Simpler remedy.
And the head of the EU, with the unpronounceable name, also agreed with President Trump about the suggested increase.
This is hopefully the direction in which the President is heading.
Get a commitment from the Russians not to attack Europe and then let the next check from Uncle Sam to NATO bounce.
Trump can always claim the USA is broke...its not like there isn't a 20 TRILLION dollar debt t on the books already.
This Macron keeps vying for attention when it hasn’t been earned. Much like his Canadian muse, Justin.
Gee, who to believe?/s
Have you ever posted anything approaching normal?
Looks like I got under the Cruzer-Luzer’s skin...
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