Today 5:41 am
They've been suckling on out teat way too long...MR-7 » 8 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ European leaders on edge as prospect looms of Trump pulling 20K troops from the continent. "The Europeans have a serious problem of readiness … that they’re trying to fix, but it takes time," Camille Grand, a former NATO official who is now with the European Council on Foreign Relations, said in a Washington Post report Sunday. "If Trump decides ‘I’m going to pull out U.S. troops from Germany because I’m upset with the trade imbalance,’ that’s much more complicated to manage than to say we have a plan to do this within X years."
European leaders on edge as prospect looms of Trump pulling 20K troops from continent
The problem is that Europe cannot have any confidence that Europe can rely on Europe for protection and defense. 30 plus years post-cold war, the US is still on the hook for funding everyone else's defense? Why are we the ones responsible for putting up the agreed upon sum of money to fund NATO, but none of our partners are? They can fund their own defense or start kicking in more money, so the American taxpayer isn't decimated anymore. How is it that the United States is basically expected to 'build a wall of defense' for so many countries and yet our own borders have been invaded? I hope Trump pulls all of our military out of Europe. They haven't done enough over the decades to help themselves. YET, they just stepped up to send over a billion dollars to Ukraine. Not to mention that one of those countries just decided NOT to fuel our navy? Pull all of our military and equipment out. Works for me.
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime”
LAVRENTIY BERIA
"Try to get past your passionate ignorance and learn to accept what actually happened."
brown's unheeded words of wisdom 