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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
No... you haven't answered a damn one.
Finally... we laid down the rules. Increase spending to 2% GDP.
It was agreed to.
Finally what the hell do you mean protect everyone else? We protect them because it's in OUR interest to protect them both financially and geopolitically.
No other #$%*ing reason.
Why did we protect Saudi Arabia and liberate Kuwait? Because were such humanitarians? #$%^ no.
Because it was in our interest financially and geopolitically.
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As I said "agreements are nothing" ….
Iran says its not building nukes either.....
I agree that we have a geopolitical interest. However, at what cost???
Because of geographical location, I would think that the EU (nato allies) have a much greater interest in protecting their own asses and should gladly pay their 2% while we are at some 3.5%.
For every year they don't, I would suggest to Trump to reduce our spending by the same amounts they come up short of theirs!! Bet they would get on board then!! If they don't, then we just drop to two percent and stay there!
This year our GDP is something like 18.6 TRILLION! Saving 1.5% of that could go a long way towards helping our own problems!
