Donald Trump Sets Conditions for Defending NATO Allies Against Attack

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CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump, on the eve of accepting the Republican nomination for president, said Wednesday that if he were elected, he would not pressure Turkey or other authoritarian allies about conducting purges of their political adversaries or cracking down on civil liberties. The United States, he said, has to “fix our own mess” before trying to alter the behavior of other nations.

“I don’t think we have a right to lecture,” Mr. Trump said in a wide-ranging interview in his suite in a downtown hotel here while keeping an eye on television broadcasts from the Republican National Convention. “Look at what is happening in our country,” he said. “How are we going to lecture when people are shooting policemen in cold blood?”


www.nytimes.com


Trump basically says he will not honor NATO.

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1. WOW.

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2. Dangerous lunatic

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3. sure leave those

countries to the mercy of Putin.

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4. More here, Trump will destroy Nato

https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/20/nato-rip-journalists-horrified-trump-waffling-security-guarantees/211772



Is Trump really a Putin kiss ass?

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5. Huge story brewing here. This will lead to WW3.

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6. Yes-- he also said he may not repond to a Russian attack on Baltic states...

From the Times...

Donald J. Trump, on the eve of accepting the Republican nomination for president, on Wednesday called into question whether, as president, he would automatically extend the security guarantees that give the 28 members of NATO the assurance that the full force of the United States military has their back.
For example, asked about Russia’s threatening activities that have unnerved the small Baltic States that are the most recent entrants into NATO, Mr. Trump said that if Russia attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing whether those nations “have fulfilled their obligations to us.”

The idjit doesn't understand that the threat of our response is fundamental to keeping the Russians at bay. Of course it's possible we may not respond, but the point is to never admit that and keep them guessing.

President Trump had just given Putin permission to take over the Baltic states and reinstate the old Soviet Union.

Way to go, Don.

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7. Laying the groundwork for our own

Reischstag moment.

Trump, if elected, has a real good chance to execute his own false flag operation to discredit BLM, Latino organizations, DU and Democrats in general.

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8. Donald the con Trump is very serious about this

Incompetence ?