This may be much ado about nothing—hopefully not—alarm bells are supposedly ringing in Europe after comments reportedly made by President Trump in 2020 about NATO came to light.
And these are the words conservative America wants to hear.
This from msn.com.
Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union, said that the former president told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen:
[W]e will never come to help you
and to support you [if Europe is under attack].
By the way, you owe me $400 billion,
because you didn’t pay—you Germans—
what you had to pay for defense.
Breton said Trump told them:
NATO is dead.
And he threatened to quit the military alliance, which its supporters say is vital for maintaining peace.
Newsweek has approached Trump’s representatives for comment.
In an Iowa town hall broadcast on Fox News on January 10, Trump cast further doubt on the extent of America’s relationship with the military alliance:
NATO has taken advantage of our country.
The European countries… took advantage
of us on our military protection.
Breton said about Trump at the Renew Europe party’s Global Europe Forum on Tuesday:
That was a big wake-up call and he may come back. So now more than ever, we know that we are on our own, of course.
We are a member of NATO, almost all of us, of course we have allies, but we have no other options but to increase drastically this pillar (defense) in order to be ready [for] whatever happens.
Joe Biden said in a press conference in Helsinki last year that the U.S. was committed to staying “connected to NATO.”
According to The Peter G. Peterson Foundation:
The U.S. defense budget for the fiscal year 2022 was more than the next 10 countries combined.
European leaders will be looking warily to the U.S. presidential election in November and the potential geopolitical consequences of a second Trump term.
Conservatives continue to oppose The Regime’s request for more funding for Israel and Ukraine over criticism of The Regime’s handling of the border crisis.
Ukraine relies largely on the provision of arms and aid from the U.S. in the fight against Russia.
Putin said in December last year that Russia potentially attacking a NATO member—something Biden has warned about—was “nonsense.”
Article Five of the NATO treaty concerns the principle of an attack on one ally being considered an attack on all.
President Trump may be bluffing, however, many Conservative Americans believe it is time for change concerning the U.S.’s involvement with NATO, the UN, and several other acronym organizations.
God speed to President Trump.
