Posted on 03/23/2016 8:40:27 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
In the wake of the horrific Islamic terror attack in Brussels, Belgium that claimed the lives of 30 people, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz made the point that now is not the time to abandon NATO, despite comments to that effect made by Donald Trump reported just yesterday.
Brussels is where NATO is headquartered, and is also significant for being the capital of the European Union. Without NATO, Europe will be left virtually defenseless against Russian military aggression.
The Washington Post delved into Donald Trump’s “unabashedly noninterventionist” foreign policy strategy yesterday. Trump questioned the wisdom of U.S. involvement in NATO, which he said “may need to be significantly diminished in the coming years, breaking with nearly seven decades of consensus in Washington.”
Trump was quoted as saying,
“NATO is costing us a fortune, and yes, we’re protecting Europe with NATO, but we’re spending a lot of money.”
Not surprisingly, Vladimir Putin also wants NATO to go away.
Just last month, the U.K.-based Telegraph reported that events in Syria pose “a direct threat to European security, combining the dangers of terrorism with the risk of direct conflict between Nato and Russia.”
In the wake of the attacks in Brussels, Ted Cruz said in part:
“Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies. Donald Trump is wrong that American should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand Putin a major victory and while he’s at it hand ISIS a major victory.”
Trumpsters, of course, took Cruz’s comments as a personal insult to Trump, saying that Cruz “blamed” Trump for the Islamic terror attack in Brussels.
Pro-Putin conspiracy theorists InfoWars posted a video quoting Cruz saying “It is striking that the day after Donald Trump called for weakening NATO, withdrawing from NATO, we see Brussels, where NATO is headquartered, the subject of a radical Islamic terror attack.”
The video left out the rest of Cruz’s quote stating that Trump is “wrong that American should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand Putin a major victory and while he’s at it hand ISIS a major victory.”
Watch:
Our friend “sundance” from the Conservative Tree House who has previously promoted demonstrably fake stories about Ted Cruz wrote in an article called “A New Low – Senator Ted Cruz Blames Donald Trump for Brussels Terrorist Attacks (video)…” that Cruz had “the unbelievable audacity to rush to the microphones and blame presidential candidate Donald Trump for the Brussels terrorist attacks earlier today.” Sundance continued desperately:
“Don’t try to obfuscate his words and claim he didn’t, it’s right there in the video.”
Sundance, of course, used Alex Jones’ cherry picked video.
Clash Daily also repeated the lie, declaring that Ted Cruz “blamed Donald Trump instead [of Islamic terrorists]” for the Brussels terror attack.
The lie is being reported as fact all over social media. Perhaps engaged readers can take the time to respond to some of those repeating the lie with this article.
Ted Cruz 2016!
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Cruz is never gonna win the nomination, so you can go back to DU now.
This opinion piece has been posted at least once already in the past 24 hours.
No, Ted Cruz did not blame Donald Trump for Brussels attacks.
But also: No, Donald Trump did not call for the US to “abandon” NATO.
Plenty of lying lyingness to go around.
What lies?
This goofy article confirmed that Cruz did say what he did, just that its no big deal. Hell that gope idiot couldn’t even accurately reflect what Trump said.
It's amazing how ridiculous the above sentence looks in 2016. NATO MEMBER Turkey is a greater threat to Western Europe than is Russia.
I’m talking about the now EXPOSED liars at Conservative Treehouse
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/watch-debunking-anti-cruz-myths-video/
But also: No, Donald Trump did not call for the US to “abandon” NATO.
That is what Cruz said Trump’s position was - another lie from Ted “A Time For Truth” Cruz.
I listened to the disjointed, robotic comments by oily Felito.
Yes, he did imply Trump’s comments about NATO grifters paying more in had some correlation to the Moslem attacks.
Oily Felito is a nickel slick shyster.
He says it flat out that Trump is wrong to want to pull back from NATO “and hand ISIS a major victory.” Pretty clear to me.
Stupid Ted didn’t have to say anything. Why can’t he make a single damn statement without attacking Trump? Talk about obsessed.
Without the United States, an entire continent filled with millions of military-aged men and fairly impressive military hardware will be virtually defenseless!
Someone please justify the whole “withdraw from NATO” BS that Cruz spouted based on the actual words from Trump’s mouth.
By grossly exaggerating Trump’s words and linking the imaginary US withdrawal from the world, Cruz implies a link between Trump’s words (which did NOT say anything about withdrawal, to my understanding) and the attacks.
==It’s amazing how ridiculous the above sentence looks in 2016. NATO MEMBER Turkey is a greater threat to Western Europe than is Russia.
Turkey isn’t even remotely as dangerous as the “former” Soviet Union
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/15208-the-real-terror-paymasters
BS, he sure as hell did.
More lies for Cruz? This is getting extremely tiresome.
Care to elaborate?
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