Posted on 07/11/2018 4:46:02 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
NATO = Not Accepting Their Obligations. A bunch of freeloading laggards.
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
Failure to Launch
Move out of the house? More like disabuse them of the notion that this is Upstairs Downstairs with Americans being downstairs.
I would LOVE to have Kay Hutchinsons job!
Buy-bye!
I wish I could do memes; this would be better in pictures..
Obama the Obsequious
Trump the Terminator
And word bubbles with groveling phrases & No more Mr Nice Guy.
Trump is following his initial instincts. He is making it clear that there is a marked diminution in America’s willingness to sacrifice American blood and treasure to defend Western Europe. If Europeans are indifferent to their own borders and care little about their own cultural heritage, why should Americans be involved in their insanity?
We used to say ‘Nothing After Two O’clock’.
Dear Mr. EU President: Go screw yourself, you commie beret-wearing bastard.
We don't need you. You need us.
Or time for the U.S. to walk away and leave Europe to stew on their own.
If we don't need them then why do we care if they need us? Just quit and let them deal with their own defense.
The solution is for us to leave. The Euroweenies can take care of their own defense.
Seventy-three years...
My uncles stopped getting shot at by Germans in 1945 but subsidized the Germans - and the rest of Europe - until the day they died.
Hell of a way to be thanked.
Americans are finally getting to see who the globalist
elites really are and what they stand for -- America
entwined in a EU bureaucracy and paying for it all.
President Trump has been slowly building up his “street creds” The key point being he does not bluff - he will negotiate but does not bluff.
His opening statement is so beyond what Europeans have been used to hearing it has to be a shock, but it is also something they already know. If President Trump says the US will pull out of NATO they know he will do it.
As the article mentioned, Russia is not the enemy they should be preparing to fight, it is Muslims. With Turkey in NATO that is not going to happen.
The United States would be better off without a commitment to defend Western Europe. I actually believe Europe would (in the end) be better off as well. As it is, they can be soft on dealing with the Muslim invaders believing the US will be there to save them if it becomes necessary. Without the US in NATO they will be forced to look at the threat realistically.
In any type of contract or agreement, there are obligations on both sides. That’s what it takes to make things work for both parties.
Unfortunately, NATO wants a one sided arrangement with the burden being disproportionately placed on the U.S. That is no longer working for us.
Its a lot cheaper for them to increase their defense spending to 2% than it would be for them to bear the full burden of protecting themselves. In other words, NATO can still be a good deal for them if they are smart enough to do their share.
“Germany and much of the rest of Western Europe was in a shambles“
Germany is not a Western European country.
Then why stay in?
I think our access to NATO bases has a lot to do with it. Logistical considerations are extremely important for us as they have been for military operations over the centuries.
That said, we cannot afford to carry countries that can carry themselves. The agreements have to be mutually beneficial and fair. If they won’t step up, we should step away by decreasing our financial support.
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