re: #63 lawhawk

Trump again doesn’t know how NATO funding works. More basic: Trump doesn’t know how NATO works. He continues to think it’s a protection racket, and not a mutual defense treaty where the only time any member nation called on others to provide assistance was the US in the wake of 9/11.

This, also, too, verily and forsooth. Meanwhile, I would support an intelligent military policy that including drawing down most of the troops we have in foreign bases, of which there are many (both troops and bases). That could and probably should include a rethinking of NATO. But not by this guy, no way, no how. Ideally, Germany, France, Britain et al. are doing some long-term thinking along those lines, though given the nature of the current UK Foreign Secretary, that’s unlikely. I’ll come in again: I hope that Germany and France are doing some long-term planning.