Slade3200
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- Jan 13, 2016
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I’m not privy to our military strategies and the classified national intel used to access threats and countermeasures... Nor are you. I can tell you the better positioned we are around the world the better and safer we are. I’m all for giving critical looks at how we spend and cut waste, but again that is a different discussion. Do you think if there was no NATO we would really pull out of all those places? NATO has nothing to do with South Korea but we have a large military presence there. This is good for obvious reasons.I agree, I’d love to see our government cut spending and waste. That’s a different discussion though. There is a lot of false info getting thrown out about NATO from our Prez and his minions, so if you are going to object to the costs the first step is to know exactly what they are.I do. I think having a presence around the world makes us stronger and safer and better informed. If there is an emergency we can respond faster, if there is a threat we can gather intel better. We are the world leader. If you want to remain the worlds leader we need to stay engaged with the world or China is going to swallow us up. Is that what you want?I don't think that Trump wants to pull out of NATO, but wants us out of Europe to save the $24b a year that they should be spending for defense themselves. If there's a war then we fulfill our NATO responsibilities. Does anyone think that the US should be spending $24b a year keeping troops in Europe?
I want the fucking $22T Debt to start going down. After the US crashes because of the Debt is not the time to start cutting spending, because there can't be any spending.
It costs the US $24b to keep our troops in the EU, is that a good use of deficit spending? Yes or No?