Trump team working to remove top NATO official

WaPo ^ | 13 Dec 2016 | Josh Rogin

[mandaladon]

Behind closed doors in 2012, Gottemoeller told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a classified briefing that Russia was violating the INF treaty by developing and testing a new ground-based cruise missile. The Obama administration didn’t tell the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s political body, about the violations until January 2014 and didn’t disclose them publicly until July 2014.~~~~~~~~~~~~Obama was supporting the Russians then...now they're our enemy?

[bigbob]

East end of the swamp

[mandaladon]

Gottemoeller’s allies see the Trump transition team’s quiet move to replace her in NATO as a brazen, brute-force tactic to pressure the alliance to bend to Trump’s will.~~~~~~~~~~~~~Getting worried?

[grobdriver]

Either way, her role is set

Well THERE'S your problem!

[Stosh]

Money talks, other stuff walks - the new administration will be looking for places to economize, and I doubt if many here would mind if our contributions to NATO were cut back a bit, as they’re likely to be in other venues. Especially if the European NATO bureaucracy insists on keeping people around we’re not especially fond of.

[mandaladon]

Obama’s appointees at international organizations around the world should be forewarned: Even if you don’t work for the U.S. government directly, Trump might be looking to find a way to say, “You’re fired.”~~~~~~~~~~~~YES!!!

[mandaladon]

If she is an Obama appointee, then she is anti-American, it is as simple as that, hell yes she has to go...

[Parmy]

Finally, we have someone coming into and will be in office who is not a straw man. But a take charge individual who will run thing in the best interest of the United States.

We have been paying through the nose for NATO. That's going to change.

[Moltke]

What’s a chick doing running NATO? Or is it NASO these days? (North Atlantic Sammich Organisation)

[Lisbon1940]

Have you checked out the defense ministers of the EU “nations?”

[2banana]

America funds 70%+ of NATO.

Trump will have his way.

[pepsi_junkie]

Have you checked out the defense ministers of the EU “nations?”

A bunch of women who never served.

The Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, and German Defense Ministers:

[joshua c]

We are NATO. You’re fired!

[ZULU]

Good. I support Trump. These creatures of Obama need to be removed from all influential slots everywhere.

[dfwgator]

Meanwhile, this is the Russian Defense Minister.

[Moltke]

Yeah, I knew that...explains a lot, doesn’t it.

[ntnychik]

It’s funny how a man referred to (since he challenged Hillary for the presidency) as a reality TV show clown has his finger on the pulse of so many significant issues simultaneously. At this point in the 2008 transition, 0 was unveiling his new logo for the office of the president-elect.