Posted on 02/12/2025 6:12:12 AM PST by marshmallow
The businessman has previously repeatedly criticized the US’ trans-Atlantic policies as he called for slashing defense spending in Europe amid a substantial budget deficit and growing public expenditure in Washington
WASHINGTON, February 12. /TASS/. US billionaire businessman Elon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the US government, has called for reforming the North Atlantic Alliance.
"NATO needs an overhaul," he wrote on his X social media, replying to a post by Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, who claimed that the military bloc had outlived its usefulness, and that the Cold War was over.
Musk has previously repeatedly criticized the US’ trans-Atlantic policies as he called for slashing defense spending in Europe amid a substantial budget deficit and growing public expenditure in Washington.
On December 20, The Financial Times reported that US President Donald Trump’s team had told Washington’s NATO allies in Europe that he will demand they increase defense spending to 5% of GDP.
About time.
I absolutely love what Elon is doing with DOGE but he needs to stay in his lane. Let Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth deal with NATO. They’ll do just fine.
Can you imagine siccing Big Balls on the NATO budget?
We thought the Euroweenies were already squealing...
Just leave it.
No overhaul.
Time to close those stupid bases in Germany that will all lose power if WW3 breaks out with Russia.
Really??
On Free Republic, we are now getting our news from official Russian propaganda media?
When did this happen?
NATO is useless. If we want to have an agreement with a country, we can do that.
We're not going to need NATO to do that.
American foreign aid and the price of NATO fills the pockets of these puppet regimes in the EU that are doing what the rats are doing with USAID and other bureaucratic agencies here. An American taxpayer piggy bank for the elitist liberal Marxists. Where do you think all the billions to the ukraine went? Tucker did some investigation
I see your posting history is full of wacko Ukrainian war defenses, so I appreciate why TASS might not be your cup of tea.
Given the number of Russian trolls on Free Republic...
They’re not useless.
Neocons and one world government folks would have no way of instantly starting wars without NATO :)
Well they would, but NATO can make it so much easier.
And they do.
Don’t overhaul, end it. Let the EU raise their own army.
Yes!!!! Go Musky!
NATO is a solution looking for a problem. It’s long outlived its purpose. We should have been out of it 4 decades ago.
It destroyed Serbia. It’s stupid everywhere.
NATO offloads EU spending on defense onto our grandkids, so that socialism won’t collapse. Socialism cannot support its people AND a strong military. Guns and Butter turns into guns OR butter.
But oh man, it’s such a ginormous slush fund the screaming will be the loudest yet, by far.
USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine.
https://t.co/tLUoBT2GfNhttps://t.co/Siq2RJOXQf pic.twitter.com/LyaUFuq3He— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 6, 2025
NATO is obsolete organization exists to stir up wars and rumors of wars and to launder money.
But really NATO should have dissolved within a year of the Warsaw Pact.
The biggest source of propaganda and disinformation during the war in Ukraine has been the British media.
Okay, Adam Schiff...
These are the kind of accusations used by Democrats -- against Trump during his first term and, lately, against Tulsi Gabbard.
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