Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
Trump has never said he opposed NATO. His issue is the money and mission. He doesn't object to NATO, he objects to these wealthy countries refusing to pay their fair share of it. He wants to renegotiate the cost. Same with South Korea and Saudi Arabia. He also thinks they need to worry less about Russia and more about Terrorists. When asked, he said if NATO members won't pay their bills and carry more of the load, then we'll consider withdrawing, because we can't afford to keep this up.

And I for one totally agree with him!! It's time for the rest of the world to grow up and take care of themselves instead of looking to the USA for a handout!!

We have thousands of US troops defending the border between North and South Korea when South Korea is much wealthier than North Korea and has twice the population of North Korea. South Korea is more than capable of defending their border. Why is it up to us?

Why do we have 35,000 US troops in Germany? 12,000 in Italy and 8,400 in the UK? 40,000 in Japan and 24,000 in South Korea? (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ry_deployments )

Why does the US pay for almost 1/4 of the entire amount of the UN's budget so tin-pot dictator nations can publicly denigrate us and call us evil, Satan, and act like we are the source of everything bad in the world!?!


Member state Contribution
(% of UN budget)
United States 22.000
Japan 9.680
China 7.921
Germany 6.389
France 4.859
United Kingdom 4.463
Brazil 3.823
Italy 3.748
Russia 3.088
Canada 2.921
Spain 2.443
Australia 2.337
South Korea 2.039
Netherlands 1.482
Mexico 1.435
Saudi Arabia 1.146
Switzerland 1.140
Other member states 19.086

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Funding )

Does anybody else see anything wrong with these pictures!?! This is BS, friggin' CRAZY and it NEEDS TO STOP NOW!!!