[WENDLE]

Nato is totally worthless. It does nothing and cost AMERICANS Billions od $. Get out. Shut it down. Europe in infected with moslems. They are finished. We are not finished!! Nuke up America and close the borders.

[Lurker]

“It is improbable that Trump has thought long or deeply on the subject of NATO”

Really? Why?

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[WENDLE]

GET OUT!! THIS IS DUMB!!

[connyankee]

“It is improbable that Trump has thought long or deeply on the subject of NATO, but he has opened a genuine debate on it”.

Not sure why this is improbable. Just because someone is a “businessman all his life and new to politics” does not necessarily mean that that individual has not been following world issues for many years. Donald Trump may have been born on a weekend but it wasn’t last weekend. Imo, anyone with as much international success as he has, must have a global viewpoint and finger on the pulse of much more than the cost of land and “how can we put 18 holes over there”. I would gather that he has thought long and deeply on many issues. Just sayin’.

[bobo1]

Well, I will have to agree with Trump on this one. Actually, I have held this position for a long time. Our membership in NATO led to the morally bankrupt Clinton to wage a ridiculous war against Bosnia, our natural allies, in support of muslim trash.

[ronnietherocket3]

The U.S. is not spending “billions and billions” on NATO as Trump argued, but about $500 million a year.

This would depend on whether you look at spending year-by-year or at a long term cost. If one were to look at a 2 decade period of spending, that would be $10billion, which is "billions and billions". There is also the issue of how much do we spend because we are part of NATO, but is not actually allocated to NATO itself.


While I am not in favor of just pulling the cord on NATO, it does need a serious rethink, especially when there are organizations like the "NATO-Russia Council" and treaties like "NATO-Russian Founding Act". In the end, it may very well be that the plug should be pulled and the organization disbanded.


I have heard that if one gets a job posting to NATO, they do not need to pay taxes as they count as a diplomat. That benefit needs to go away.

[chuckee]

Of all the issues that I am most squarely aligned with Trump, his approach to NATO is right on. Time for them to pay up and for us to administer a little tough love to these allies who are fine with putting the US at the tip of the spare in defending them.

[patlin]

I find it quite ironic that the US befriended communist/Marxist Russia when it served “the ends justifies the means” military doctrine of the high priests of war that turns a blind eye to the innocent being persecuted by the communists/Marxists. And when they are done using the communist/Marxist regime for their priestly wars, they then turn on them to begin their next military adventure. The hypocrisy is astounding!

[vette6387]

So you are a “provocateur” to discuss the imprtant issues facing our country. I guess the voters still refuse to see the truth about where we, and the world for that matter are today. They want to vote for someone who “assures them that everything is really o.k. and that with a little social tinkering, and another diddle of our “ entitlements,” things will be hunky dory!”

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Let’s get out of the UN, too.

[ASA Vet]

He followed with saying pretty much the same thing about the U.N.

[sarasmom]

The true bottom line fact was :

“In all, the U.S. provides 73 per cent of NATO’s defense spending.”

Frankly, having been assigned to NATO support positions in my capacity as an active duty military member of the USAF, and after observing first hand the conduct, particularly of the French and German military members specifically, Trump is vastly understating what needs to happen to NATO.

And with the expansion of the EU as a quasi-federalist type government over vastly disparate European states, who have little in common other than a mutual dislike of the USA, I say it’s past time to review and renegotiate that treaty.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Whatever else can be said about Donald Trump, everyone can agree he is a provocateur who, intentionally or not, stirs controversy on subjects to which little political attention has been focused.

See, right away the author sets up a false premise.

It's time other nations be responsible for their own security. If they had, Islamists wouldn't be invading Europe as we're speaking.

Get the U.S. out of these blood-sucking, parasitic, post-WWII organizations that have outlived their usefulness.

[crz]

There are but a few nations that we should align ourselves with. Poland-and some surrounding countries, the UK-and even them I would question, Canada, and maybe a couple others.

Take a look at the size of the Euro nations miltary compared to ours.

As far as Russia is concerned, they have a problem, a large portion of their military is supposed to be Muslim.

[DoughtyOne]

[Mike Darancette]

Let’s get out of NATO so that we can reduce the readiness of our forces even more.

[Trumpinator]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3416981/posts

Trump or Obama? Who said this about America's foreign policy and military allies?

[Grzegorz 246]

If he is against NATO by default, playing into hands of Putin, islamists and all the rainbow coalition of anti-western nutjobs, that's a bit worrying. “Resets” with Russia (no matter what Putin's drones are writing all over the internet) just don't work as both Bush and Obama have learnt. But healthy criticism of European impotent approach to defence is a totally different issue. Spend 2% of GDP (2.5% for the front-line countries) on the military immediately or f. out - that's should be the policy.