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Ursprungligen postat av
Tom.Of.Finland
Det är väll ändå bra att NATO-länderna betalar för sig?
Vem är det de ska betala?
Vem? Ser fram emot ett svar på frågan.
Det är det här Donald inte begriper, och tyvärr också enstaka deltagare i tråden uppenbarligen?
NATO är inte en golfklubb. Men att tänka utanför sådana termer är tydligen mer än vad den amerikanske presidenten klarar av.
Vilket är varför världens ledare har svårt att hålla sig för skratt...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/19/trump-first-foreign-trip-europe-215163
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‘People Here Think Trump Is a Laughingstock’
“Chaos.”
“Circus.”
“Laughingstock.”
Those were just a few of the comments I heard in Berlin this week from senior European officials trying to make sense of the meltdown in Washington at just the moment when a politically imploding President Trump embarks on what he called “my big foreign trip” in this morning’s kickoff tweet.
For months, the American president has raised unprecedented questions about the future of the American-led alliance that has persisted since the end of World War II. He has slagged off NATO, evinced skepticism about the European Union, cheered for like-minded right-wing populists, boosted antidemocratic strongmen like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and vowed to rip up free trade deals—and Europe’s political class has been outraged, confused and even terrified.
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When European diplomats meet these days, they often swap stories about Trump—and how to manage their volatile new ally. “The president of the United States has a 12-second attention span,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a former senior official in April after meeting Trump in the Oval Office. Not only that, this person told me, the president seemed unprepared and ill-informed, turning the conversation to North Korea and apparently unaware that NATO is not a part of the ongoing North Korea saga.