Posted on 02/12/2024 2:56:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
As US allies reel from Donald Trump’s weekend comments encouraging Russia to attack European allies if they don’t meet NATO budget contribution goals, multiple former Trump advisers warn in my upcoming book that the former president will seek to formally withdraw the US from the NATO alliance if he wins a second term.
In “The Return of Great Powers”, which will be published March 12, a former senior US official, who served in both the Trump and Biden administrations at a high level, told me that if Trump defeats President Joe Biden in November “the US will be out of NATO.”
“NATO would be in real jeopardy,” John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, agreed. “I think he would try to get out.”
Trump’s disparagement of US security commitments extends to its mutual defense agreements with South Korea and Japan as well, retired General John Kelly, who served as White House chief of staff to Trump, told me.
“The point is, he saw absolutely no point in NATO,” Kelly said in the book. “He was just dead set against having troops in South Korea, again, a deterrent force, or having troops in Japan, a deterrent force.”
“He thought (Vladimir) Putin was an okay guy and Kim (Jong Un) was an okay guy that we had pushed North Korea into a corner,” Kelly recalled. “To him, it was like we were goading these guys. ‘If we didn’t have NATO, then Putin wouldn’t be doing these things.’”
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That means zip...Eff NATO!
Btw, the U.S. government has a duty and obligation to protect and secure our border. How'd that work out for the U.S. taxpayers?
If John Bolton was put in Fatigues and given AN ASSAULT RIFLE and shoved into the front lines, he would cry.
It’s deja vu all over again.
That’s what they said in 2016.
Reality?
NATO paid their dues and was strong as ever.
Trump is about security. US security.
If Nato can provide it fine. If not, bye Felicia, we create a better way.
Nothing to do with Russia.
“The NDA ‘23 states that the US cannot withdraw from NATO without a 2/3rds vote of Congress.”
But a POTUS can violate the treaty, rendering it null and void.
“True Fact. Biden and NATO pushed Russia into war with Ukraine.”
And every rape victim deserved it, right?
Wouldn’t the point of a joint missile defense be, to stop the usage of missiles on the entire Earth? Eventually, it would be nice if you had to actually use humans in direct conflict, because it limits the ability of say the US of attacking say uh, Russia or Zimbabwe with the push of a button.
This is all a moot point because, the world is full of Madmen and Madwomen, who cannot help but to grope for the last bit of power, money, and control.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-official-admits-she-lied-about-russians-committing-mass-rape-convince-countries-send-more-weapons/5783014
The top Ukrainian official who was fired for spreading misinformation has admitted that she lied about Russians committing mass rape in order to convince western countries to send more weapons to Ukraine.
Lyudmila Denisova, the former Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, was removed from her position following a vote of no confidence in the Ukrainian parliament which passed by a margin of 234-to-9.
Parliament member Pavlo Frolov specifically accused Denisova of pushing misinformation that “only harmed Ukraine” in relation to “the numerous details of ‘unnatural sexual offenses’ and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence.”
Not this one.
It would be stopped and kicked to the SCOTUS.
Sounds good to me. Go Trump.
I’m already voting for him, I don’t need another reason.
NATO is unnecessary.
He doesn't hate NATO. He hates that the European countries are not paying their fair share for us to keep our military there to protect them. A contract was made but some (maybe all) did not hold up their end of the contract.
This is about money. If we pulled out of Europe, they would have to build their own military's up which would cost more than having us there.
NATO is the only military force capable of resisting Red China - in Africa.
You are an anti American shill for Russia and you don’t deserve the time of day.
And you and your Russian friends don’t want Trump in the White House you’re a damn liar.
You’re jumping to conclusions here by thinking I was only referring to Ukrainian rape victims. I was referring to every rape victim, everywhere, anytime, regardless of who attacked them.
Point being that Russia was not ‘forced’ to attack Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya, or anyone else. They chose to do so.
I am so tired of the ranting of ignorant fools.
You don’t even have an inkling of the world situation and the disaster for America if Europe falls to our enemies.
It’s just childish ranting and it’s dangerous. And it isn’t patriotic or conservative.
Nobody can compel a POTUS to adhere to, or enforce a treaty.
No force on earth. Not even the USSC, which would most certainly decline to get involved. It’s just not their business.
He can only be removed and replaced.
It’s sad the nonsense being peddled here.
Idiots who say the West would be better off with Putin in charge.
Last night they were saying Putin and Xi are better models for the West to follow.
Then they say we’ll be better off without Europe or Asia.
Basically we’ll be better off with the entire world in the hands of our enemies.
And they say that’s because America and the West ARE the enemy and at least Putin and Xi don’t like gays.
This stuff has gotten so extreme it’s just ridiculous.
No one who says a better model would be Communist China, is even remotely conservative or even American.
bttt
John Bolton speaks nonsense.
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