Posted on 07/10/2018 8:16:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
European Council President Donald Tusk told U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday to stop berating NATO allies over military investment levels ahead of what is expected to be a fraught alliance summit. […]
“Dear America, appreciate your allies, after all you don’t have that many,” Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, said after a signing statement on more cooperation between the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
As European Council president, Tusk serves as the chairman when EU leaders meet at summits.
Even while in the air, Trump kept up the attack. He said in a Twitter post that a trade deficit with the European Union “makes it impossible for our farmers and workers and companies to do business in Europe … and then they want us to happily defend them through NATO, and nicely pay for it. Just doesn’t work!” …
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I don’t know, I think the UN would probably win that one. But the EU is the same kind of bully organization.
and trump should reply :
YES you should respect your ally the USA as much as you seem to want to be respected.
Being asked to pay their own bills for their defense is not exactly being disrespectful, and then commenting on the excuses which begin to flow ...
EU Ankle biters are pathetic.
When they act like allies, we will.
If any EU countries had knowledge of or participated in Spygate, I’d say they’ve graduated from ankle-biter to enemy.
Respect is earned.
I think we’re at the point where the President views our allies for the most part as liabilities rather than assets.
If that were to be proven true, and it rings true to me, then the USA should immediately pull out of NATO and raise tariffs on imports form the EU to extremely high level.
President Trump is over there to kick butt and take names. I expect to see him throw a few of the deck chairs overboard at some point. Sooner than later.
Can you image what would happen if someone asked President Trump about Tusk's remarks and Trump simply said " I notice he didn't speak in German"!
I'll bet we could hear the outcry from across the ocean.
Trump should Tweet back to Tusk: That goes both ways and I always show as much respect as I am given.
That would be a freaking AWESOME reply and is exactly the one he should make.
It would piss the Yurps off something fierce - Because it’s so obviously true.
That knife cuts both ways, Tuski
“If you want us to be your allies you must keep giving us US dollars.”
So they can have a 35 hour work week, take two month vacations and put a few million more Jihadis on welfare.
If they want respect they should give respect. They’ve been playing US for suckers since Lend-Lease.
“The Naked Communist”, the book with the list of 45 commie goals for the USA, has quite a bit to say on the subject of Lend-lease.
From yesterday....
Iranian Plan to 'Airlift $350 Million' From Germany to Tehran Sparks U.S. Anger
With allies like this, who the HELL needs enemies?!
“That’s what the Eurocrats want most. They’ve always wanted the USA to be gone so they could build their own war machine back again, and guess who would lead it.”
Exacty.
I can’t help the headline that al-Reuters chooses to publish. They want to go on the record being utterly dishonest (which is their forte anyhow), they will do so.
We ought not have to stayed out of WWII for as long as we did. We only got into it when Hitler declared war on us. Churchill admonished us that what happened there was utterly preventable and the malingerers allowed it to happen.
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