Trump's Nato blunder: one stick versus a bundle of sticks.

[Democrats_win]

Remember the story: you can easily break one stick but try to break a bundle of sticks. It's very hard.

It's that simple. Militarily, generals know the rule: never divide your forces.

Trump's pulling out of Nato would be the biggest blunder in human history!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. But it isnt a blunder in the sense of a mistake, he will do it and under orders from putin.

NOTHING stops him unless Barr all of a sudden changes his plans and does not protect the traitor from justice.

[MLAA]

2. 2nd biggest blunder....electing him (I know we didn't) was first biggest blunder 😬

[Vinca]

3. Malcolm Nance said yesterday that Trump thought NATO was a trade group when he went

to that first meeting . . . and he wasn't kidding. We have truly installed the stupidest person in the country in the Oval Office.

[dalton99a]

4. .

[Blue_Tires]

5. The bundle of sticks you're referring to is a "fagot"

(SOMEBODY WAS GOING TO SAY IT SO LET'S JUST GET IT OUT OF THE WAY ALREADY)

[Aristus]

6. In this case, the bundle is known as the fasces.

Dating to Ancient Rome, and standing as a symbol of civic authority, the fasces were bundles of birch rods tied together with red leather strips. The bundle symbolized the strength of collective effort, since one rod could easily be snapped, but a bundle of them could not. The bundle unadorned signified the Roman magistrate's power to chastise (by whipping), but not to kill. When an axe was inserted into the bundle, it signified his power to execute (almost always outside the boundary of the city of Rome.)

[TexasProgresive]

7. Thanks for saving me the time to write that.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Bravo, well done.