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Trump has reportedly discussed withdrawing from NATO
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/15/18183759/trump-pull-out-of-nato-nyt-mattis ^ | January15. 2019 | By Emily Stewart

Posted on 01/15/2019 5:47:38 PM PST by Mikemurphy

Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NATO, which he once declared was “obsolete.” According to the Times, his repeated requests to withdraw from NATO have rattled administration officials..

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: getout; nato; now; sniff; trumpnato; zotbait
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To: Mikemurphy

When the Soviet Union overruns Poland and East Germany again then I’ll listen about the importance of NATO. Why stop with NATO when we need to leave the UN too?


41 posted on 01/15/2019 6:06:12 PM PST by hardspunned
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To: Mikemurphy

We need to pull out because the real threat is coming from the other direction.


42 posted on 01/15/2019 6:06:20 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Mikemurphy

The EU is now a bigger threat to American ideals than Russia, which lost its ideologically based expansionism with the demise of its communist dictatorship. While Russia has needlessly picked fights with certain countries that were formerly part of the former Soviet Union, Russia no longer threatens Europe, or the USA, militarily.


43 posted on 01/15/2019 6:06:44 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Mikemurphy
Step back and consider for a moment that the Left is now investing itself in collective security and support for continued presence in NATO. This is no part of any planned position on the Left, it's reflexive opposition of anything Trump, and it puts them in an anomalous position unthinkable a decade ago.

They're opposing the pullback from Syria and Afghanistan on the same basis, which is what caused inveterate antiwar reporter William Arkin to leave NBC. They are absolutely dancing to Trump's tune and are too stupid to recognize it.

44 posted on 01/15/2019 6:07:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Mikemurphy

Can we drop out of the UN while we’re at it?


45 posted on 01/15/2019 6:07:36 PM PST by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chanceh)
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To: hardspunned

The UN should be in Paris. It’s the natural place for it.


46 posted on 01/15/2019 6:07:39 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Too true. The landscape has changed.

Imagine if the Yellow Vests in France stop protesting and start taking charge. The French police and Military are considered by an increasingly panicked Macron to be unreliable, and he gets help from the Werma..I mean Bundeswehr to put the deplorables down. What the Blue Helmet is our NATO obligation at that point?

That’s unlikely, but what about when Muslim France has nukes? IIRC, simple math makes this one we have to deal with at some point.


47 posted on 01/15/2019 6:11:06 PM PST by M1911A1 (Santa is real. CNN is fake.)
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To: Yaelle
LOL!

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48 posted on 01/15/2019 6:15:42 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Thank you :)


49 posted on 01/15/2019 6:15:52 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: MrEdd

That AND expel Turkey.


50 posted on 01/15/2019 6:16:25 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: goldstategop

“If we did it, globalists would scream murder. Europe can take care of itself.”

Europe has been “taking care of itself” since the end of WWI (and the creation of NATO) by welching on its commitment to its own protection, and putting the money saved into social welfare programs. So essentially, the American taxpayers have been financing a gaggle of Socialist countries in Europe. And then having to listen to them cackle about how their “socialist way of life” is so superior to ours, and how they’ve “proven” that Socialism really does work! Yeah right, cut them loose and watch them fail!


51 posted on 01/15/2019 6:16:57 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Mikemurphy

Let’s leave the UN first.


52 posted on 01/15/2019 6:22:16 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Mikemurphy
Prett Bharara was the donkey turd who served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York under Obama


53 posted on 01/15/2019 6:23:59 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Mikemurphy

Certainly old alliances need to be reviewed and revised in the light of present and anticipated new circumstances. All of them. On a regular basis.


54 posted on 01/15/2019 6:31:05 PM PST by VietVet
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To: RightGeek

Preet should be deported


55 posted on 01/15/2019 6:32:39 PM PST by Manuel OKelley
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To: Mikemurphy

If we were NOT in NATO, we would have never been involved in the dismemberment of Bosnia and Serbia (Kosovo) - which I STILL consider to be criminal actions, regardless of whether there were a few pictures of suffering babies.


56 posted on 01/15/2019 6:46:51 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Mikemurphy

Do it!


57 posted on 01/15/2019 7:13:53 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: dfwgator
NATO lost all credibility after going into Kosovo.

That!!!

58 posted on 01/15/2019 7:16:52 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Manuel OKelley

I think he has an H1B.


59 posted on 01/15/2019 7:24:31 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Mikemurphy

All agreements should be bilateral. Even if they are identical. That should be an amendment.


60 posted on 01/15/2019 7:32:13 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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