45 wants to blow up NATO

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John Bolton doesn’t really buy Donald Trump’s story about telling an unnamed head of state he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to countries that didn’t meet NATO’s defense spending standards.

But he does think the former president’s threats — and his desire to abandon the alliance — are chillingly real.

“Look, I was there when he almost withdrew, and he’s not negotiating,” said Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser. “His goal here is not to strengthen NATO, it’s to lay the groundwork to get out.”

Bolton, one of the loudest critics to emerge from the Trump White House, has long expressed dismay at Trump’s tenure. In his post-mortem book, “The Room Where it Happened,” he portrayed Trump as unfamiliar with basic facts and driven, above all, by a desire to win another term. In Bolton’s telling, it’s no different with Trump’s recent comments about NATO. That doesn’t change the reality that Trump wants out of the alliance that has helped ground the U.S.-led global order for decades. And Bolton wants Trump’s defenders to recognize that.

“I think there are some Republicans who support Trump out there saying, ‘Oh, it’s, you know, it’s not a big deal. He’s not going to do it, so on and so forth.’ I’m telling you, I was there in Brussels when he damn near did it,” Bolton said.

And if Trump does destroy NATO, he warned, the consequences would be dire.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... 60?cid=apn

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Trump is the one..the only one..that got these loser, deadbeat countries to pay up,

..and this is how he did it..”No, we won’t protect you, and we won’t care what happens to you if you don’t pay.”

Perfect..and this is reason #10001 why America wants him back, and John Bolton dwells in obscurity.

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Trump is the one..the only one..that got these loser, deadbeat countries to pay up,

..and this is how he did it..”No, we won’t protect you, and we won’t care what happens to you if you don’t pay.”

Perfect..and this is reason #10001 why America wants him back, and John Bolton dwells in obscurity.

Trump doesn't understand how NATO works! And neither do you.

“That’s not how NATO works,” James Goldgeier, a former dean of the School of International Service at American University who currently teaches at the university and sits on the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board, told us in an email. “There is a common budget that countries pay into, but most of what we think of as NATO defense spending refers to individual country defense spending and preparedness to be able to operate as a military alliance.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/trump ... -comments/

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Trump is the one..the only one..that got these loser, deadbeat countries to pay up,

..and this is how he did it..”No, we won’t protect you, and we won’t care what happens to you if you don’t pay.”

Perfect..and this is reason #10001 why America wants him back, and John Bolton dwells in obscurity.

Trump doesn't understand how NATO works! And neither do you.

“That’s not how NATO works,” James Goldgeier, a former dean of the School of International Service at American University who currently teaches at the university and sits on the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board, told us in an email. “There is a common budget that countries pay into, but most of what we think of as NATO defense spending refers to individual country defense spending and preparedness to be able to operate as a military alliance.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/trump ... -comments/

Yeah..that’s the point. What has been considered “normal”..changes when we have President Trump.

That’s why the Deep State hates him so much.

..and that’s why he’ll be elected again.

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Yeah, it changed all right. For the worse. Remember the COVID scam that he enabled?

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Yeah, it changed all right. For the worse. Remember the COVID scam that he enabled?

Nice dodge, bait and switch, and surrender.

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Yeah, it changed all right. For the worse. Remember the COVID scam that he enabled?

Nice dodge, bait and switch, and surrender.

That is just the most egregious one.