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    Default Re: US President Orders European Vassals To Pay For NATO

    Quote Originally Posted by Diocle View Post
    Whatever you think about USA, if the POTUS says that you have to pay more money for NATO .. then you pay more money for NATO. This because Europe is and will remain a political nonentity.
    Only if you were the President (you are intelligent) You see, Trump is a non intelligent entity.

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    ... We're also much more powerful than you guys militarily and economically, now dance. If you don't want to pay, we'll get our money by other means.
    Should we laugh or cry? Hmm, laughter is the best medicine.Who can stand before Trump without trembling in fear?



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    Seriously now, your President asked NATO to double/raise spending to 4%.The majority of NATO members agreed to to reach the 2% target by 2024.
    BUT - we will never pay 4%, because Europe’s biggest threats are not military.As already said, it's quite clear that the larger threat to Europe is ideological, for example the rising authoritarianism in the Eastern Europe. Read my lips, Russia will never invade Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. We prefer spend more money on education, on health care, social spendings. We don't want to spend excessive money on military junk we don't need.

    And more, a brief historical reminder:
    Let's keep in mind that many, many years ago, the Polish dissidents /workers like the Solidarity's leader/like Walesa were inspired by democratic ideals; in Czechoslovakia the Prague Spring was also inspired by values of democracy and liberty at a time when their countries were in the Warsaw Pact. In 1989 the Civic Forum of Vaclav Havel pressed for democratic reforms, and later, under his presidency, the Czech Republic joined the NATO. Those were the real heros who defeated, from inside (from inside, I repeat) the communism, and contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
    And now, your racist, isolationist, xenophobic, idiotic President seems determined to reduce NATO to a monetary transaction.In fact,he doesn't give a to the so called western values and democracy. The good old times when the advance of American interests was also linked to the advance of universal values like freedom, democracy, tolerance/diversity are now dead.Caput.
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    Quote Originally Posted by swabian View Post
    What is a "nonentity" to you, diocle?
    Just to answer you in the most concise way: Today Germany and its Chancellor (<- sorry!), or even the pseudo-French (<- sorry!) nonentity who married his grandma for her money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diocle View Post
    Whatever you think about USA, if the POTUS says that you have to pay more money for NATO .. then you pay more money for NATO. This because Europe is and will remain a political nonentity.
    The funniest part is that they will. But in the long run, it is best in both America's and Europe's interests that NATO is disbanded. From 90s, when NATO was tearing up Balkans (now resulting in Kosovo being one of Europe's main organized crime hubs) to Libya (with NATO aggression and subsequent destruction of Libya causing ongoing migration crisis in Europe) to NATO's current policy of provoking Russia (to later whine about Russia hosting military drills like Kim did about US drills in SK), Europeans and Americans gained nothing out of that - only more problems, both financial and political. NATO is a relict of Cold War, which is only being kept alive as a muscle for corporate interests.

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    Default Re: US President Orders European Vassals To Pay For NATO

    According to Trump, sic "the tiny Montenegro and its “very aggressive people” could trigger WW3.

    Trump Questions the Core of NATO: Mutual Self-Defense - The New ...

    Trump questioned whether the US would defend it in a conflict, as required by NATO's founding treaty.
    Hey Trump, should we double NATO spending to 4%?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heathen Hammer View Post
    Europeans and Americans gained nothing out of that - only more problems, both financial and political.
    As I said before, previous post- and also in 2016 #119
    Last edited by Ludicus; July 18, 2018 at 02:37 PM.
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    Default Re: US President Orders European Vassals To Pay For NATO

    Regardless, look at the agreement they agreed to in NATO. Whatever percentage the members agreed to pay, they need to pay, no more no less. Given Germany's healthy economy, I believe they could do better than having soldiers running around with broomsticks in the recent NATO exercises, and having most of their planes sitting non-operationally lacking parts. Gen Rommel would flip in his grave.

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    Default Re: US President Orders European Vassals To Pay For NATO

    Why Trump has a good point in this matter?
    Only yesterday the new Chief of Luftwaffe announce that ONLY 4 of a total 128 Eurofighters are capable to fight thanks to limmited funds for spare parts that force each 400 hours inspection of each Eurofighter to need 14 months!!! An unacceptable time!
    I remind that the new Chief of the German Navy announced that 80% of the ships are docked because of lack of crews!
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    Default Re: US President Orders European Vassals To Pay For NATO

    Yup, saw that news article as well. Just let US pay and fight, while Merkle reach a special secret deal with Russia. Guess her inner east german is trying to take the whole vaterland to a socialist utopia/paradise.

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    Default Re: US President Orders European Vassals To Pay For NATO

    Of course the issue of the German budget is pretty much a domestic issue for the Germans. Where are the Germans fighting to correct this budget imbalance. It is not just Merkel says, Merkel does - there are other legislative and administrative positions in the government as well.

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