https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nat...ing-is-working
that's from the NATO Secretary General:
“Allies must spend more on defense. This has been the clear message from President Trump,” he said. “And this message is having a real impact.”
The American Bully Pulpit does work, and Trump calling NATO allies out hard in public, backed by threats of reducing US spending and share of the load, has lit a fire under them.
Yes they've complained and harped and counter threatened, but of course they're going to complain about having to finally pay their share of the burden. THe US has covered their bills so they can divert more and more money into their democratic socialist agendas, and then people in the US bemoan how we don't have that.
Well they have that in part b/c the US is subsidizing it. Trump knows that, is right to say so, and right to demand it changes. Apparently, it's working. At least working better than quietly and politely bringing it up in private while sipping tea with your pinky held out.
Trump's style is brash, but so is America's, and when polite hasn't worked for decades, it's time to try something else.
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