Donald Trump slammed NATO for its low military spending. Breitbart reports:
U.S. President Donald J. Trump went right to work in Brussels at the NATO summit Wednesday morning, taking truculent Germany to task for coming to the United States for defence, while simultaneously paying billions of dollars to the Russian Federation for energy.
Speaking at a bilateral breakfast meeting with the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg, President Trump was blunt, calling out Germany for taking from NATO with one hand while giving to Russia with the other.
Bringing up the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Europe and how dependent it will make Germany and other European nations on imported Russian gas — which in a crisis could easily be turned off at source by the Russian government as happened with Crimea — the President said Germany was becoming “captive to Russia”.
Talking to Stoltenberg over the breakfast table, the President said: “…it is very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where we’re supposed to be guarding against Russia, and Germany goes and pays out billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia. We’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of these countries.”
It was only a matter of time before a US President finally realized that the cost sharing in NATO was biased against America.
The President should have told them we weren’t looking for allies when we got stuck with them. We don’t actually need any allies. So here’s an idea, let NATO be exactly that. NATO….NORTH ATLANTIC. The United States isn’t in the north Atlantic. They can defend themselves from here on out. These punks won’t spend money on their own defense, instead relying on us to do it for them. Then they dole out massive welfare to their own people and now invading Muslims, while criticizing the U.S. for not being more “enlightened” and generous like they are.
Enough. President Trump is heeding our first President’s words about entangling ourselves in foreign European problems. President’s Washington and Trump are right.
Bravo!
those countries need to realize that we are helping them stand up for them . they need to show a little more respect to us , & start helping with the COST Instead of putting it all on us !!! they need to start coughing a little more MONEY into the pot !!
I only caught the last part of a news story that showed some European Turd making a statement that the US needs to be careful about what it says about its allies, because we don’t have very many.
I hope that President Trump remembers that when the next natural disaster occurs somewhere in Europe and they turn to the US for help as they always do.
By the way Europe, think back to your not so distant past, remember World War 1, and don’t forget part 2 of that documentary World War 2. If it wasn’t for the US most of Europe would be speaking German today.
How about moving the UN to Brussels! The losers in the place would be closer to home and maybe they would have to fight their own battles, ya’no, the ones they create!
I love the idea!