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TedEx
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TedEx asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 2 months ago

With Trump out of office, does Nato get a free ride???

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  • 2 months ago
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    The US is going to resume paying way more than it's fair share giving the democratic socialist countries of Europe a continued free ride on our taxes. 

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    That may happen.  Trump wasn't opposed to NATO other than the fact that all members were not contributing their fair share and expecting the U.S. to contribute an unfair, excessive amount.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 months ago

    Nope..................

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    Ya . Nato never paid as much in the stuff as the usa according to trump etc . Always the us was bailing all the other nato etc 

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    A free ride? What's that even supposed to mean? The US is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance of 30 European and North American countries whose objective is to act as a collective defense against Russia and thwart Russia's hegemony and territorial expansionism. As leader of the free world and the most prosperous country in the world, the US shoulders a lot of the burden of NATO, but it is in the US's best interest to do so because Russian expansionism left unchecked has been and continues to be an existential threat to the US. What's more, shouldering so much of that burden puts the US in a position of tremendous power, the US essentially able to call up not just its own military but also the militaries of 29 other countries to defend herself, to defend Europe, which is the middle-ground between the US and Russia and where the US wants any war with Russia to be fought instead of on American soil, for that's where it would be fought if the US fails to engage in defending Europe against Russia. 

  • 2 months ago

    In this case, it's not the man, it's the party.  The Republicans have pushed the belief, for a long time now, that treaties lessen our sovereignty.  Both Trump and GW Bush got us out of treaties, or else wanted us to 'own' the treaty and order our allies around.

    With Trump gone, our relationship with NATO will return to normal--or at least what was considered 'normal' all the years since its inception.  We will be partners, not owners or leaders.  We will work WITH our allies and not just tell them what to do.   And we won't talk about NATO as if it was some bad deal made by 'liberals' to sell the  US down the river.

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