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Posted on 02/11/2024 11:44:59 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
And so it begins. Nine months still to go before the next US presidential election and already the Republican party favourite and former President Donald Trump is sending eyebrows and blood pressure skywards in Nato capitals with his provocative statements.
And yet they will delight many of his supporters.
Suggesting at a rally in South Carolina that he would "encourage" aggressors (for example Russia) "to do whatever the hell they want" with Nato countries that fail to pay their dues has prompted an immediate condemnation from the White House. A spokesman called the comment "appalling and unhinged", saying it was "encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes".
Nato Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has also responded forcefully, saying: "Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk."
Did Trump mean what he said? Probably not. This is typical Trump fare. Say something provocative, grab some headlines, outrage your critics and thrill your fans.
Yet ironically, there is a grudging gratitude in some quarters of Nato for Mr Trump's threats when he was in the White House. Back in 2018, President Trump was so angered by the failure of several European nations to fulfil their agreed quota of spending 2% of GDP on defence that he threatened to pull the US out of the alliance altogether.
Military chiefs throughout Nato were aghast. If a US president ever went through with such a threat, abandoning Europe to fend for itself, it would so severely undermine the alliance that it would cease to exist in its present form.
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BTTT.
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But he hands the media these openings, over and over again.
The real world will always have war. It’s just the nature of things. But, yeah, Russia is not the boogey man we’ve been taught to abhor and fear.
You know what is the boogey man? Lies. Media lies. Self lies. All that pertains to principalties and powers unseen.
The free man ekes out a thankful history for a short time and look to the life of the world to come.
Blah blah blah... mystery-meat full-auto troll and Ukraine harpy.
You are to Free Republic what a used condom is to a school parking lot.
GTFO of FR.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 291,557 U.S. soldiers died in Europe during WW2. During WW1 53,400.
See, here is your problem: You make up "facts" to suit your prejudices, which blows up your credibility all to smithereens.
Not enough American deaths for you piggy? Tell US about the wounded and damaged, why don’t you. That’s enough of our American blood for a continent who showers it’s people with socialist domestic giveaways while doing little for their own defense. Go sell your internationalist slop on a Democrat forum. We’re Americans.
Forget the media.
*sigh* Getting these people to acknowledge facts is like trying to explain algebra to adolescent flatworms...
>And so.......say, Biden, telling us that if we didn’t give Ukraine money he’d have our sons and daughters over fighting the Russians in Europe isn’t dangerous talk? It must be really something of a self-shocker to be on the same side as Biden, McConnell, Nuland, NATO war mongers, The global MIC, UN et al. If it were me, I’d be doing some very serious introspection here.<
You go, Gaffer!
Educate these newbies.
So the European Socialists are upset that Uncle Sugar’s gravy train is being reined in?
I’m shocked, shocked I say!
That reminds me of Facebook posters who lead with “I voted Republican for 50 years and I won’t vote for (Candidate X).”
Is the whole of Europe that incapable of defending itself against Russia?
Remember how they mocked Trump when he warned them against shutting down domestic energy production and committed to purchasing solely from Russia? Look where we are now...
I would love to shock the entire world, have the US and Russia hold hands in Peace and co-operation. Why? What we have beeng doing has not changed the world one lick.
Until Jesus returns, the only way to ensure peace is to prepare for war.
Tell US about the wounded and damaged, why don’t you. That’s enough of our American blood for a continent who showers it’s people with socialist domestic giveaways while doing little for their own defense. Go sell your internationalist slop on a Democrat forum.
You really are a “Chad.”
Yep.
They are easy to read.
They are going to need new material for The General Election.😉
They’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember. Its a variation of “The Band Wagon” logical fallacy.
Yup. Our Trump gets under the skin of the Eurotrash class
Western society cannot coexist with the Norks, or with Islam. Tell me what has Russia done to the US in say......................................83 years? Too tough of competition in the Olympics? Putting missiles in Cuba? What have they done, that we have not done to them?
The entirety of the Cold War, hate on USSR now Russia has been a scam to keep Americans afraid, and hand over mass quantities of money, and a lot of our freedoms. We boycotted the Olympics because they invaded Afghanistan. Did they sink a ship, shoot down a plane? Oh yeah, like we shot down a balloon from China, they shot down our spy plane. They fought us in Korea and Vietnam? SO DID THE FLIPPIN’ Chinese.
This irrational fear of the Russian Bear has been holding the globe hostage, and at the cost of our country. We WILL NOT survive the collapse of the dollar as a Free Republic.
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