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To: Jim 0216

These are supposedly NATO “allies”......yet they don’t spend even a paltry 2% if GDP on Defense like they committed to and they scream for us to provide for their defense WHILE they move pell mell to buy ever more of their energy from the very country they want us to protect them against.

You don’t see the problem here? Since we’ve been subsidizing their defense, shouldn’t they be buying our gas instead of the Russians’ gas?


6 posted on 06/13/2018 2:10:10 PM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: FLT-bird
Since we’ve been subsidizing their defense, shouldn’t they be buying our gas instead of the Russians’ gas?

Not if it's not party of a treaty agreement. They would be stupid not to buy the least expensive best gas available. Nations are sovereign and can and should do what they want as long as they don't threaten another nation's sovereignty or unreasonably break treaty agreements.

If there's no threat to the U.S., Germany should buy gas from wherever they want and if we're subsidizing them for stupid reasons, then shame on us.

16 posted on 06/13/2018 3:47:54 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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