re: #88 Charles Johnson

Remember when people said Trump didn’t understand how NATO is funded? Now he’s explicitly calling for it to be his way — money paid to the US.

“Countries that are immensely wealthy should reimburse the U.S. for the cost of defending them. This is a major departure from the past, but a fair and necessary one,” @POTUS says on NATO alliance https://t.co/z2Q3XGLNxV pic.twitter.com/YO3bA0SwsR

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 18, 2017

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This whole thing is indescribably stupid. Each NATO Nation brings its own forces to the table: that’s 90% of NATO assets. The other 10% are bought together with a common pool of funds, determined essentially by…the size of the country’s economy: its wealth. Pay the US for what? It’s completely incoherent, and now Mattis and Tillerson get to have more janitor duty.