/-----/ "Trump was weakening NATO. he was threatening to pull the US out."
Oh, stop lying. If anyone is interested in what really happened, ElmerMudd notwithstanding, read this: It was a negotiating tactic to get the other NATO nations to pay their fair share. (Libs like fair share paying.) Obama said almost the same thing (see below)
“Twenty-three of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they’re supposed to be paying for their defense. This is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States,” Trump said in 2017, reported The New York Times.
However, after he was elected, Trump pledged to “never forsake the friends that stood by our side” after the terrorist attacks against the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Those attacks are the first and only time NATO invoked its Article 5 clause, which states that any armed attack on one NATO country is considered an attack on all and necessary action, such as armed defense, will be taken.
And did you have any fake outrage when Obama did the exact same thing?
Obama warns NATO: ‘Freedom isn’t free’
Obama said members’ defense cuts may have weakened the alliance.
thehill.com
"The situation in Ukraine reminds us that our freedom isn't free, and we've got to be willing to pay for the assets, the personnel, the training that's required to make sure that we have a credible NATO force and an effective deterrent force," Obama said during a press conference following a meeting of U.S. and EU leaders.
The president said he had "some concerns about a diminished level of defense spending among some of our partners."
"If we've got collective defense, it means that everybody's got to chip in," Obama said.
President Obama on Wednesday expressed concern that cuts to the defense budgets of NATO members had left the alliance vulnerable, as it confronts Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
"The situation in Ukraine reminds us that our freedom isn't free, and we've got to be willing to pay for the assets, the personnel, the training that's required to make sure that we have a credible NATO force and an effective deterrent force," Obama said during a press conference following a meeting of U.S. and EU leaders.
The president said he had "some concerns about a diminished level of defense spending among some of our partners."
"If we've got collective defense, it means that everybody's got to chip in," Obama said.
