Trump opens NATO summit with blistering criticism of Germany

when you look at the middle column... spending in millions of US dollars...
how can you argue Trump does not have a point? Just eyeballing it, it seems the US is spending more than all of Europe combined to defend Europe.
Its seems to me Trump is being 2 nice with the 2 percent...
Why shouldn't Europe paying multiple times more than the US to defend Europe.

https://www.statista.com/chart/8521/expenditure-of-nato-countries-in-2016/

Now this is the first or second link I clicked. Let me know if this site link is giving false data. I am not vouching for it.






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jem said:
when you look at the middle column... spending in millions of US dollars...
how can you argue Trump does not have a point? Just eyeballing it, it seems the US is spending more than all of Europe combined to defend Europe.
Its seems to me Trump is being 2 nice with the 2 percent...
Why shouldn't Europe paying multiple times more than the US to defend Europe.

https://www.statista.com/chart/8521/expenditure-of-nato-countries-in-2016/

Now this is the first or second link I clicked. Let me know if this site link is giving false data. I am not vouching for it.






chartoftheday_8521_expenditure_of_nato_countries_in_2016_n.jpg
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Do you realize we have over 150 military bases in Germany and dozens more throughout NATO countries. We use those bases for staging our military in the Middle East, Africa and Parts of Asia.

The money spend on the military has nothing to do with our NATO commitment. Holding our NATO allies to our outrageous military expenses is ludicrous because our military spending is ludicrous.

We should cut our military spending.
 
right now I would like to gather facts.
How much do you attribute to Nato.
how much of our spending do you think we should be going NATO.

in the end I believe a ton of miitary spending by all these countries is done to preserve the private central banking system and to preserve the oil industry status quo. But that is a different argument.

what is your argument? that the US Tax payers should continue to be be paying for Europe's military needs in the year 2018 and forward?

Its my belief we should let Europe pay for their own defense. And Europe should be spending more helping keep Africa and Asia stable.

But, that is just me. Apparently you think we should keep paying.

UsualName said:
Do you realize we have over 150 military bases in Germany and dozens more throughout NATO countries. We use those bases for staging our military in the Middle East, Africa and Parts of Asia.

The money spend on the military has nothing to do with our NATO commitment. Holding our NATO allies to our outrageous military expenses is ludicrous because our military spending is ludicrous.

We should cut our military spending.
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jem said:
right now I would like to gather facts.
how much of our spending do you think should be going NATO and how much is going to Nato.

in the end I believe a ton of miitary spending by all these countries is done to preserve the private central bank's system and the oil industry status quo. But that is a different argument.

what is your argument? that the US Tax payers should continue to be be paying for Europe's military needs in the year 2018?

Its my belief we should let Europe pay for their own defense. And Europe should be spending more helping keep Africa and Asia stable.

But, that is just me. Apparently you think we should keep paying.
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What are you talking about. It is not the Europeans doing that we have so many bases and personnel in Europe, it’s the right wing hawks.

Our footprint on Europe has very little to do with NATO and more with our status as a superpower and now the world’s only superpower.

You guys are so confused on 1. What NATO is and 2. What we spend on NATO.

This country is getting dumber.
 
you know what is really odd.
I can't get any facts out of the lefties... about the spending...

but it seems the Trump hatred causes the left to be defending military spending as they say we should be cutting military spending.
 
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