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applegrove

(118,744 posts) Tue Feb 28, 2017, 07:07 PM Feb 2017

President Trump supports NATO (to be in his speech tonight).

How lucky the American people are. Their president supports the alliance it leads. I said he would reinvent the wheel.

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President Trump supports NATO (to be in his speech tonight). (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2017 OP

Demanding they spend their 2%... scscholar Feb 2017 #1

Oh I would rather NATO countries spend what they applegrove Feb 2017 #2

scscholar

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1. Demanding they spend their 2%...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2017, 07:52 PM

Feb 2017

is just wrong. He is strengthening NATO at their expense.

applegrove

(118,744 posts)

2. Oh I would rather NATO countries spend what they

Reply to scscholar (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 28, 2017, 08:09 PM

Feb 2017

are supposed to...and do more of the share of security around the world than leaving it all to the USA and its defence industry. The more heads the better and less reckless NATO will be, or any NATO country. Remember that Jean Chretien didn't go into IRAQ because his intelligence experts told him the intel from the Bush WH didn't follow any previously known pattern of intelligence.

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