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CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump, on the eve of accepting the Republican nomination for president, explicitly raised new questions on Wednesday about his commitment to automatically defending NATO allies if they are attacked, saying he would first look at their contributions to the alliance.
Asked about Russia’s threatening activities, which have unnerved the small Baltic States that are among the more recent entrants into NATO, Mr. Trump said that if Russia attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing if those nations “have fulfilled their obligations to us.”
“If they fulfill their obligations to us,” he added, “the answer is yes.”
Mr. Trump’s statement appeared to be the first time that a major candidate for president had suggested conditioning the United States’ defense of its major allies. It was consistent, however, with his previous threat to withdraw American forces from Europe and Asia if those allies fail to pay more for American protection.
Mr. Trump also said he would not pressure Turkey or other authoritarian allies about conducting purges of their political […]
It is time to reconsider the cold war alignments.
How many times have France and Germany waged aggressive wars against Russia?
A clown in the funhouse. Who is the most warped? NATO attacking central Europe (Atlantic?) or a the press vaulting a guy toward leadership with over three thousand law suits. Could AnyBody make a treaty with such a person? Could the USA?
The unfunded press, now the strobe of the commercial press makes democracy blind. It is not just the object in the press that is warped. We are all warped by accepting this mode. Changing the object in the press, (the funhouse) will not improve the confirmation bias indicators dangling from your own ‘cookies’.
We are in the conditions leading up to WWI (or III, if you are counting) and between ossified treaties, miscommunication, terrible leaders and conditioning that makes them that way……. babys, we need a change.
A membership to the Guardian costs fifty bucks a year. They are a co-op, and have the cajones to report on NSA and Snowden. As a co-op, they cannot be squeezed as a proprietorship can. What are You really going to do to change the funhouse? I say begin with funding some real sunlight on the picture. They need money to protect their reporters. ….. or do you think the advertising model, the amnesia engine, is good enough. We will see within the next two years.