Rows mar NATO’s birthday bash
Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2019
The defeat of the attempted coup by the Clintonites seems to have prompted Trump to return to some his original themes: disdaining NATO and pursuing detente with Russia and China.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
5th april, 2019
In his initial remarks with the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on April 2, US President Donald Trump charged straight into his pet grievance that America “alone accounts for the vast majority of NATO defense spending ’s spending”. Trump failed to congratulate NATO on its 70th birth anniversary. When Stoltenberg’s turn came, he gently reminded Trump of that 10-letter word — Afghanistan — which is the alliance’s flagship project, and its first ‘out-of-area’ operation.
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