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As he demanded countries meet their NATO obligations and chastised Germany for becoming dependent on Russian energy...right
by l33t2328 5y ago
As he demanded countries meet their NATO obligations and chastised Germany for becoming dependent on Russian energy...right
- ceejayoz 5y agoHis criticism of NATO went a little further than that. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-presiden... > Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set. > In the days around a tumultuous NATO summit meeting last summer, they said, Mr. Trump told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States. It's a little hard to see that as something Putin would've been mad about.