Diplomats, media, analysts still don’t know how to deal with a president whose default is bad faith. If you’re focusing on the details of European defense spending, you’re a sucker.
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I'm providing these facts about NATO spending for anyone interested in the details. But I won't get suckered into "actually, European defense spending has been a concern for many presidents..." It has, but that's not what's going on here. 4/
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Diplomats, media, analysts so desperate for normalcy--and US media so terrified of bias accusations--that they latch onto best possible version of Trump's NATO spending argument (not provided by POTUS himself, of course). Suckers. He already moved the goalposts to 4% of GDP. 5/
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Do you really think Trump would become pro-NATO if every member spent more than 2% of its GDP on defense? If so, could I interest you in this bridge? Think you can spot the red queen? Do you have a minute to talk about Herbalife? 6/
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Here's reality: POTUS is anti-NATO, and this belief is immune to rational argument or accommodation. Pretending he's just advancing a good faith argument about defense spending makes it easier to deal with. But in the long-run, that makes it worse. (END)
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The biggest lie of Trump’s day was to say Russia provides Germany 90% of its energy. It actually provides less than 10%. Wow! What a whopper of a lie. Is Trump trying to humiliate Angela Merkel?!?!
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