Trump Is Training His Base to Hate NATO and Like Putin
So Trump lovers got their panties all moist this week when they heard news of Trump seriously considering pulling out of NATO -- their general consensus was, "**** yea!! let's save that money and give it away in corporate tax cuts or directly to defense contractors!! #MAGA"
Is NATO really that much of a problem in the world? Or is pulling out of NATO more of a way to just feel like you are "owning the libs" on something? It seems that much of whatever Trump lovers support is mainly based on the fact they think it makes "libs" angry -- which is pathetic in itself.
As Trump himself said (from the article)
"Sometimes our worst enemies are our so-called friends or allies, right?” At a subsequent rally in Montana last week, the president declared, “Our allies in many cases were worse than our enemies.” He then went on to say about his boo-thang Putin: "Putin is KGB.” (Putin did in fact work in the KGB.) “You know what,” he said, “Putin’s fine. He’s fine. We are all fine, we’re all people.”
Trump claims his opposition to NATO is based on money; but that is not how NATO works. It is not a protection scheme where the allies pay the United States. It is a collective defense organization in which members agree that an attack on one is an attack on all. NATO is the most successful peace-keeping franchise in world history; let's not forget that the norm for Europe before then was wars, wars, and more wars....It was only 20 yrs that separated WW1 from WW2; since NATO -- no more wars breaking out all across Europe; how is that a failure?
Nothing wrong with NATO, other than some members NOT (as libs love to say...) paying their "fair share".
It's the UN that REALLY sucks...
Your first statement is a lie. No one has a "share" to pay. The orange idiot has never read the NATO treaty and doesn't understand that. It's just another lie Trump tells his uneducated and cultist followers. That's why NATO leaders laughed in his face when he said the USA should bill them. That's why NATO is having talks that exclude Donald Trump.
Vladimir Putin has two wishes: 1. To fracture NATO; and 2. To have all trade sanctions against Russia lifted before the Russian economy collapses completely.
The ONLY NATO member who has ever called on other NATO members to come to their defence is the USA, and none of the NATO member nations have EVER sent the USA a bill for the money we spent defending you. Canada spent 10 years in Afghanistan at considerable cost in blood and treasure, and you paid us NOTHING for our contribution.
The USA has stationed troops all over the world because it wanted to stop the spread of communism, which they saw as a world threat after WWII. NATO has supported the USA through thick or thin through your dodgy incursions into the Middle East, installing despots and dictators across the region all in the name of "fighting communism". The Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Moammar Khadaffi, the Saudi Princes, were all American puppet dictators. How did that turn out for the USA, all getting arms and assistance from the USA while abusing and murdering their own people. How is that turning out for you?