Donald Trump again blasted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in a speech this week. He said we are the "schmucks" paying for NATO, and questioned whether the United States gets any "protection" by participating in NATO. It was an outrageous statement, and I'm not surprised that it troubles our allies -- especially since Trump will be attending a meeting of NATO countries on his way to meet with Putin in Russia. Is he going to embarrass the United States at that meeting by again attacking our allies?
Trump needs a little reminder of some recent history. I don't know if he's ignorant of this history, doesn't listen to his own military and intelligence, is incapable of using Google, or is just incredibly stupid -- maybe all of the above -- but the chart above should be enough to shut him up.
After the United States was attacked on 9/11, President George Bush went to NATO (and some other allies) and asked for help in the war in Afghanistan. NATO responded by helping the U.S. -- and 22 NATO nations lost soldiers in that war. They lost citizens fighting for us! (see above chart)
It is outrageous that Trump questions whether NATO would spring to our defense. They have already done so. And it is disrespectful to the families of those who died defending us from those NATO nations.
Trump is whining about money -- which seems to be all he ever thinks about. But there's something more important than money, and one of those things is having allies who will fight beside when necessary. We have that in NATO. Let's hope Trump doesn't destroy that.
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