Trump stands by his NATO comments

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump reiterated his call for the U.S. to pull back from its commitment to NATO and said the Republican leader of the Senate was wrong to call the proposal “a rookie mistake.”

“He’s 100 percent wrong. OK?” Trump said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He’s 100 percent wrong if he said that.”

Trump shocked many in the country’s defense and foreign policy establishment when he said last week that as commander in chief, he would not automatically come to the defense of America’s NATO allies if they were attacked.

The assurance of such all-for-one assistance is a fundamental underpinning of the defense agreement between the U.S and key allies.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who had given a less-than-rousing speech in support of Trump’s nomination at the Republican National Convention, responded by suggesting the remark showed the political neophyte’s inexperience and the need for guidance from seasoned lawmakers.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-stands-by-his-nato-comments/ar-BBuLmEC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

Well he has said he loves him some Putin.

[FXSTD]

1. No trump fan here but I agree to get out of nato.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. Why?

[Lord Magus]

3. Why, so Putin doesn't have to hold back anymore in conquering Eastern Europe?

No thanks.

[stevenleser]

5. That is exactly what the eventual result would be of that kind of change in policy. nt

[RonniePudding]

8. Nailed it.

[BlueCaliDem]

4. DumbTrump really is Putin's Puppet.

[center][font color="black" size="5" ]Putin’s Puppet[/font][/center]
If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests—and advance his own—he’d look a lot like Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump told the New York Times that he would not necessarily come to the aid of NATO states threatened by Russia and would make his decision to defend them from an attack after reviewing whether they “have fulfilled their obligations to us.” It was the latest statement from Trump that was likely greeted with delight in the Kremlin. Earlier this month, Franklin Foer wrote on the frightening ways in which Trump seems to be playing right into Vladimir Putin's plans for destabilizing the West.​

Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West—and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump. Over the past decade, Russia has boosted right-wing populists across Europe. It loaned money to Marine Le Pen in France, well-documented transfusions of cash to keep her presidential campaign alive. Such largesse also wended its way to the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who profited “personally and handsomely” from Russian energy deals, as an American ambassador to Rome once put it. (Berlusconi also shared a 240-year-old bottle of Crimean wine with Putin and apparently makes ample use of a bed gifted to him by the Russian president.)

There’s a clear pattern: Putin runs stealth efforts on behalf of politicians who rail against the European Union and want to push away from NATO. He’s been a patron of Golden Dawn in Greece, Ataka in Bulgaria, and Jobbik in Hungary. Joe Biden warned about this effort last year in a speech at the Brookings Institution: “President Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated, to create cracks in the European body politic which he can then exploit.” Ruptures that will likely multiply after Brexit—a campaign Russia’s many propaganda organs bombastically promoted.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

DumpTrump is going to sell our country out to Putin - for profit, of course. This should alarm EVERYONE. Instead, we get OP after OP attacking Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and try to undermine Hillary Clinton in the process. Why would that be?

[stevenleser]

6. I agree with this. nt

[stevenleser]

7. This should be its own OP by the way. nt