That's ridiculously wrong. Wanting European NATO members to significantly strengthen their militaries and asking them to up their spending is not in any way "weakening" NATO.
Of course. Because they didn't want to spend the money on their military, and flirted with Putin and made their economies dependent on Putin's good will. We see the results now.
Bull. Absolute bull. A naked assertion that is wholly your opinion.
People for whom Iran going nuclear is an existential threat were completely against the "nuclear deal". I believe them and not you.
Firstly, everything you have said with regard to Trump and Ukraine is your opinion as well. Let’s be clear on that.
Europe doing business with Putin was discouraged from America as policy. The Europeans had the idea that creating business ties would build cooperation- or at least that is what they have said for as long as I can remember.
As to their military spending, Trump used it as a bludgeon and it created division, and that appeased Putin because that is what he wanted. John Bolton knew this to be true and he advised Trump on these matters in the White House.
As you may have noticed the people who worked for Trump are the people yelling the loudest do not trust Trump because he will sell out America - Bolton, Tillerson, etc. The people who are most anti trump are the people who have worked for him.
Not sure where that leadership is. Nato has come together for one reason and one reason only: because war broke out and they feel threatened and they know that DC will lead from its behind. Now they are lining up to join Nato. Even if true- which it is not- there is nothing worse than being a leader in a war that would not have happened but for the weakness that you/Biden projected and then confirmed in the AFG withdrawal.
As fully discussed throughout the campaign, to elect Biden is to put down the welcome mat for both Ukraine and Taiwan. Here we are. No doubt Biden will be a "leader" in some crisis with China soon.
I will throw this in here too because you two are sort of in unison. Yes. As I said during the build up to the invasion nothing will wake up the Europeans like invading Russian tanks. Nothing before that was going to move the Europeans. Not Trump, not obama nothing. It was always going to be Putin. That is true.
But Biden is doing a good job keeping the alliance rowing in relatively the same direction. Back filling arms coming from other states and coordinating arms in totality.
The alliance is our strength. The US going in early on Ukraine would have been ill advised because we would have gone alone. I get this is hard to understand but for NATO to be effective we all have to be moving at once otherwise it becomes a US operation. I’m not saying that was Biden’s thinking but that is core to our strength. We are all moving together in support of Ukraine and we are doing a pretty good job of it.
