All of these loser socialist countries in europe are ungrateful for what America has done for them over the last century. The hell with them. Soon they will be pan-mooslum states. Good luck, you fools.
Germany should protect itself. If it wants to be part of the umbrella, they should pay for it.
Stasi Merkel has already shown us what she’s about. Let them deal with the actions she undertakes in their name. I didn’t lose a damn thing in Germany.
There is now, sweetie.
Leaving Europe for a short period of time may be a good start, but it will surely engender mischief from the Kremlin and other sketchy characters. What should have happened was that we should have allowed Patton to push the Soviets back to their border, erasing Europe from a future of the Iron Curtain. But no, others seemed to think they knew better.
The expression on Merkel’s face during her meeting with Trump pretty much telegraphed this message during her visit. Pure hatred. Our future relationship with Germany is sure to be problematic.
His speech stated specifically what he was talking about.
Britain agrees - They owe money.
Also, I think it’s time to retire the word “Slam”
funny how the media shrugged its shoulders when obama threatened Great Brtian:
If Obama ever questioned whether America really is the world’s one indispensable nation, he no longer does so. But he is the rare president who seems at times to resent indispensability, rather than embrace it. “Free riders aggravate me,” he told me. Recently, Obama warned that Great Britain would no longer be able to claim a “special relationship” with the United States if it did not commit to spending at least 2 percent of its GDP on defense. “You have to pay your fair share,” Obama told David Cameron, who subsequently met the 2 percent threshold.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
Give Merkel and her commie buddies NO SUPPORT OR PROTECTION and watch the cockroaches scurry. It is simple — just make her pay for NATO protection. Her attitude and that of the other commie states will change.
I didn’t see it here but the Washington Post reported approvingly that the Germans claimed that they spend more than 2% because their welfare benefits to Muslim invaders is “security” spending.
Padded-cell levels of delusion and arrogance all around.
Merkel goes out and does everything she can to jeopardize the safety and integrity of her people and then wants us to pay for Germany’s protection?
They owe us for East Germany, that’s half
It’s also America’s navy that provides overall protection for international shipping. Many European countries send billions of dollars of property on ocean going vessels bound for foreign lands. But for a powerful naval presence, pirates would again seek their share of the trade. The US should insist on compensation. Barring that, they could let it be known that “X” unpaying country’s exports will not receive US naval protection.
pull our bases out, pull our money out
I trust Putin running Germany more than I trust Merkel.
And I’m a Hungarian. My family lived under the soviets, the Russians are NOT the soviets.
The Germans are once again the greatest threat to the world. NOT the Russians.
If France elects Le Pen and Britain leaves the EU they’ll be talking about getting the whole WW2 band back together.
I was in Germany for 13 months in the early 70’s, 1-2, and we had about 300,000 troops, and hundreds of thousands of dependents along with civilian employees spending billions of dollars supporting the German economy annually.Plus we paid rent on all facilities and damages for all our exercises and they still look at us as bullies. Let them defend themselves.
Yes, it’s time to abandon NATO to their fate, no matter what that may be.
For those of you out there that think we should continue membership and continue to honor the treaty, please weigh in with your reasoning.
Let’s have that debate.
“We really need to remove all our troops from Europe. “
If there’s any threat to Germany it’s from their ‘migrant’ population and our troops wont be of any help on that battle.
Germany will start another war...always have and always will.
There are several pics of them shaking hands.