Make no mistake…. He has NO CLUE what NATO is.
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Ostensibly? I'm pretty sure he was president for four years. Does anybody protest that?
He was president for 4 years and treated it like retirement. Even if it was explained to him exactly what NATO was several times, I doubt he paid attention or cared enough to retain the information.
Putin doesn't like NATO and that's all he needs to know about it.
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He has this bizarre idea in his head that NATO is like one of his golf clubs with membership fees and not GDP pledges.
It's a bit weird hearing people make a huge fuss over Trump not taking the Russian threat seriously while they themselves are refusing to spend even just the minimum they've already agreed to spend on defence. Especially if we're looking at the potential of the US being an unreliable partner, shouldn't we be putting a lot more effort into shoring things up here at home? (Canadian)
Shoresy?
Yes, we definitely should, but you won't find a party on any side of the spectrum that will run on that.
Which is among the reasons that people are losing faith in government, and why Trump is capable of capitalizing on the issue.
Syphilis brain deterioration
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And when he spoke on the subject at a rally in South Carolina over the weekend, what he said was less a cogent discussion of foreign policy than it was gibberish — the kind of outrageous nonsense that flows without interruption from an empty and unreflective mind.
“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay, and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’” Trump said, recalling an implausible conversation with an unnamed, presumably European head of state.
The former president’s message was clear: If NATO members do not pay up, then he will leave them to the mercy of a continental aggressor who has already plunged one European country into death, destruction and devastation.
NATO, in case anyone needs to be reminded, is a mutual defense organization, formed by treaty in 1949 as tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union hardened into conflict.
Or consider the time, last November, when Trump confused China and North Korea, telling an audience of supporters in Florida that “Kim Jong Un leads 1.4 billion people, and there is no doubt about who the boss is.
And because no one now expects him to be a responsible political figure with a coherent vision for the country, it’s as if no one blinks an eye when he rants and raves on the campaign trail.
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NATO/potato from the Cheeto.
D. Trump, traitor
To me Trump has no business commenting on NATO at all. He has no business commenting on anything I don't care if he was president. The man is a jackass and is way out of his depth. Why we tolerate it is insane.
Our politicians operate closer to nobility of a bygone era then they do of members of a republic. For this they deserve the guillotine.
something about the Soviet Union right?
¿Por qué no los dos?