So says Nigel Farage. LMAO!!! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 12:57PM I thought that was pretty funny. ** -- DanTheFan 02/19/2024 1:58PMMAGAts think the steady increase in spending on defense by NATO members
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So says Nigel Farage. LMAO!!! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 12:57PM I thought that was pretty funny. ** -- DanTheFan 02/19/2024 1:58PM Publicly embarrass and threaten your allies, who are -- 111Balz 02/19/2024 12:46PM Shouldn't we have been monitoring this more closely all along? NATO is 75 ** -- Tuckahokie 02/19/2024 12:55PM No - you don't say anything, Tuck. It's wut good friends do. ** -- ResistHoo 02/19/2024 1:24PM The 2% of GDP agreement was signed in 2014 under Obama -- CMUHoo 02/19/2024 1:03PM MAGAts think the steady increase in spending on defense by NATO members -- Hoo TV 02/19/2024 1:21PM There was no mechanism prior to 2014? Seems to invite an unequal spreading -- Tuckahokie 02/19/2024 1:19PM There still isn't a "mechanism" other than withdrawing or -- CMUHoo 02/19/2024 1:32PM So unfair. So very, very unfair. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 1:31PM Which country picked up the $$$ slack? ** -- Tuckahokie 02/19/2024 1:34PM The US Congress has historically chosen to fund defense at well over -- SixerHoo 02/19/2024 1:44PM And 2% was just a mutually agreed upon & commitment GOAL (by 2024), not any -- Hoo TV 02/19/2024 1:51PM And then the money is a quid pro quo. Or he'll encourage Russia to do -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 1:46PM There is no $$$ slack. -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 1:41PM If Democrati are happy with current Defense spending levels...then so am I ** -- Tuckahokie 02/19/2024 2:11PM No one is saying that or has said that. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 3:11PM Again, NATO is NOT a protection racket. It is a US security asset. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 12:58PM And the only time Article 5 has ever been invoked was for the US after 9/11 ** -- Hoo TV 02/19/2024 1:23PM I imagine we have. I don’t think it’s bad that Trump has focused attention -- SixerHoo 02/19/2024 12:58PM If we don't fund Ukraine soon NATO will start cracking. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 12:59PM Then what good is it -- TomKazanski 02/19/2024 4:49PM Yep. FAFO. ** -- WaxHoo 02/19/2024 1:38PM That’s exactly what Putin wants and the Rs in the House are toying with -- SixerHoo 02/19/2024 1:03PM Poland now spends 3.9% of thier GDP on defense, exceeding even the US (3.6) -- Hoo TV 02/19/2024 1:41PM They're wise to start planning for the US to be an unreliable ally. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 1:44PM They remember our response in 1939, too ** -- Hoo TV 02/19/2024 1:52PM Putin's Quisling MAGAs are a Russian success story. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/19/2024 1:05PM Trump right. Again. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/19/2024 12:40PM It has nothing to do with the agreement NATO made with its members. -- hooshouse 02/19/2024 12:39PM Sure Jan. ** -- BocaHoo91 02/19/2024 12:37PM