Posted on 12/09/2023 11:22:26 AM PST by Mariner
For 74 years, the NATO has been America’s most important military alliance. Presidents of both parties have seen NATO as a force multiplier enhancing the influence of the United States by uniting countries on both sides of the Atlantic in a vow to defend one another.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he sees NATO as a drain on U.S. resources by freeloaders. He has held that view for at least a quarter-century.
In his 2000 book, “The America We Deserve,” Trump wrote that “pulling back from Europe would save this country millions of dollars annually.” As president, he repeatedly threatened a U.S. withdrawal from the alliance.
Yet as he runs to regain the White House, Trump has said precious little about his intentions. His campaign website contains a single cryptic sentence: “We have to finish the process we began under my administration of fundamentally reevaluating NATO’s purpose and NATO’s mission.” He and his team refuse to elaborate.
That vague line has generated enormous uncertainty and anxiety among European allies and American supporters of the country’s traditional foreign policy role.
European ambassadors and think tank officials have been making pilgrimages to associates of Trump to inquire about his intentions. At least one ambassador, Finland’s Mikko Hautala, has reached out directly to Trump and sought to convince him of his country’s value to NATO as a new member, according to two people familiar with the conversations.
In interviews over the past several months, more than a half-dozen current and former European diplomats — speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from Trump should he win — said alarm was rising on Embassy Row and among their home governments that Trump’s return could mean not just the abandonment of Ukraine but a broader U.S. retreat from the continent and a gutting of the Atlantic alliance.
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GOOD
Some wisdom: There can not be an Amercan solution to every world problem” John F Kennedy.
The left just keeps publishing reasons to vote for Trump.
I will! :)
MAGA 2024
Only 11 of 31 NATO members will spend the minimum of 2% GDP on the military. The treaty has been violated and it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
No to NATO
You’ve never had a friend nor have stood up for a stranger, have you?
He even had to finally disavow it, after someone(s) called him on his Churchill cowplop.
>>I’ll laugh and cheer, at stupid finally paying the price.<<
Don’t laugh, don’t cheer. After ISlam is finished with Europe, they’ll be knocking on our door and we’ll be like lambs led to slaughter. We have kissed muzzie ass ever after 9/11. Look how we shamefully side with Palestine against Israel.
Fron Proverbs 26:
Like one who grabs a stray dog by the ears is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own.
The author calls this cryptic. I see NOTHING wrong with it. I even encourage it along with the same thing for the US involvement and sponsorship of the UN.
I think the existence of NATO is what’s keeping Europe from actually building and supporting its own European Defense Force. It’s time to ween them from the money teat.
I’m all for taking a couple dozen D12 CATS and pushing that monstrosity UN building off into the East River.
Habermann,, one of the NY Times “hit writers”. You can’t trust her even if she is right.
Which countries want to withdraw? I dare them.
Utterly clueless, repetition of a gross distortion that is no longer current.
Oh yes.
I remember reading that the place is absolutely falling apart and rat infested.
Can’t imagine what that property would be worth.
Over the past 2 years there has been no bigger cheerleader for Zelensky and his war than The Sparky. Now that the collapse is near, his charge to the middle ground is predictable. I didn’t ping him to this because he usually finds my comments, becomes angry, and demands I find links from years ago. As if we can’t remember what he obviously has forgotten :P
That pretty much: hitting the nail on the head
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