Dragonlady
Designing Woman
Once again our President does the right thing and putting spotlight on the deadbeat NATO countries not paying their dues. PC is a disease and Donald J Trump is the cure.
Once again Trump lies through his teeth about NATO commitments to the deafening cheers of his idiot base who never fact check anything he says.
In 2014 NATO countries agreed to raise defence spending to 2% of GDP (and this is the really important part of the commitment), by 2024. It is now 2018. NATO members are living up to their commitments under the 2014 Agreement with Barrack Obama. Trump is lying.
NATO allies do NOT owe the US millions. There are no dues to be paid by or to anyone in NATO. Trump says there is a problem. Trump is lying.
The NATO allies have increased military spending because they fear that Trump will not defend them against Russia. There was no crisis within NATO before Trump started claiming the US is owed millions. Trump is lying.
NATO allies have not agreed to increase military spending to 4% of GDP. Even the US doesn’t spend that much.
NATO allies spend twice as much on humanitarian aid as the US does. They have also taken in Syrian refugees, created by American policies and meddling in the Middle East, at enormous expense to their countries. Something the US refused to do.
Last but not least, this whole line of attack by Trump is asinine in the extreme and has made him a laughingstock around the world.
He’s trying for force NATO allies to buy American made tanks, war planes, and artillery, and boost US military manufacturing.
Nobody is forcing the USA to spend $700 billion on their military. That’s a choice Americans have made. If you don’t want bases around the world, shut them down. Take your troops home.
After WWII, American bases have protected “American interests”, which is in fact “property owned by large American corporations”, throughout the world. Anywhere there are American owned corporations, there are American military bases. These bases don’t exist just for NATO defence commitments, they are in place to enforce its role as the world’s #1 Superpower.
The rest of the world isn’t as stupid as Republican voters. Trump wants NATO allies to go on a spending spree so he can deliver jobs to the US military industrial complex.
Republican voters may be stupid enough to believe that 40 minute deranged festival of lies and self aggrandizement that was this morning’s Trump press conference, but the rest of NATO and the rest of the world’s press did not.
The rest of NATO just told Donald Trump to go fuck himself.
