How is forcing the deadbeats of NATO to pay up "weakening NATO"?Part of how it works is that Trump will continue his weakening of NATO. This is why Putin was happy with Trump and didn't invade Ukraine while Trump was in office. Trump was doing a great job of destabilizing NATO.
Ultimately Putin needs NATO to be weaker. So he'll let Trump do whatever is needed to get that and he'll get all of Ukraine that he wants so that we can have "peace in our time".
The real downside (other than handing Vlad what he wants directly) is that it will cause repercussions with our treaty partners who count on us to be the real backstop. We've decided that we don't agree with what they stand for so we are going to cut them loose. We'll have a new partner in Putin.
(Nato CHIEF IN 2019)
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Good afternoon.We have had a very good summit.
Over the past two days, we have taken major decisions to strengthen NATO’s deterrence and defence.
To step up in the fight against terrorism.
And to ensure fair burden-sharing among all Allies.
I told you earlier this week that I expected frank discussions on burden-sharing.
And that’s exactly what we had.
That is what we do among friends and Allies.
All Allies have heard President Trump’s message loud and clear.
We understand that this American president is very serious about defence spending.
And this is having a clear impact.
After years of decline, when Allies were cutting billions,
now they are adding billions.
Before, the trend was down.
Now, the trend is up.
In fact, since President Trump took office, European Allies and Canada have added an additional 41 billion dollars to their defence spending.
And all Allies have committed to raise this number substantially.
So we are stepping up as never before.
Allowing US spending to go down.
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