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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:15 PM Feb 2017

Pentagon chief says NATO members must boost defense spending

BRUSSELS — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday issued a sharp ultimatum to NATO Wednesday, telling allies they must start increasing defense spending by year's end or the Trump administration will "moderate its commitment" to them.

He did not detail what the United States might do if NATO members failed to fall in line.

Echoing a demand made repeatedly by President Donald Trump, Mattis said NATO must adopt a plan this year that sets milestone dates for governments to meet a military funding goal of 2 percent of gross domestic product.

The Pentagon chief called it a "fair demand" based on the "political reality" in Washington.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pentagon-chief-says-nato-members-must-boost-defense-spending/ar-AAmY7hS?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

Meaning Trump's scared shitless of that pee pee tape being released.

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Pentagon chief says NATO members must boost defense spending (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 OP
Russian coup is almost complete. Europe needs to see us as an enemy now, sadly. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #1
EU countries should boost military budget in any case Ezior Feb 2017 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Russian coup is almost complete. Europe needs to see us as an enemy now, sadly.
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:16 PM
Feb 2017

And the GOP is fine with this.

As long as they can steal your Medicare and Social Security, they will go along with anything.

I wonder if Americans will ever get mad about any of this?

Ezior

(505 posts)
2. EU countries should boost military budget in any case
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 03:22 PM
Feb 2017

If NATO survives, we should pay our fair share (which we don't right now)
If NATO fails and the US should be seen as an enemy, we should increase the military budgets by A LOT. WW III against Putin (US & Russia) might be coming.

Maybe it's time to move to China though. Seems like a safe, friendly, freedom-loving place in comparison to Putin-US-Russia.

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