Trump Nato: EU's Tusk warns president to appreciate allies

[darmstadt]

Just to liven things up a bit:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...defence-review

The US defence secretary, James Mattis, in a letter to his UK counterpart, Gavin Williamson, hinted that the UK’s close relationship with the US on defence matters could be undermined unless it did more. If not, it could end up being supplanted by France.

A Whitehall source said the modernising defence review, on which work began a year ago, had fallen foul of a stand-off between May, the chancellor, Philip Hammond, and Williamson. Talks over the past fortnight have failed to resolve differences over Williamson’s push for billions more in defence spending.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...itary-spending

[darmstadt]

[Hobosapien]

So Trump wants NATO to spend more, then a few days later is meeting Putin who is already sensitive about NATO countries near Russia's border. Should go well.

Ah got it, Trump is going to invite Russia to join NATO.

Though with the way Turkey is regressing into an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship, maybe this isn't so far fetched after all, if the USA and Russia see Islamic extremist states (including Iran) as the new enemy.

[Hobosapien]

Of course they did, it's the 40 billion we have to pay them minus Juncker's bar tab...

Not sure 40 billion will cover it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oecvYFq_wi0&app=desktop

[vetran]

Not sure 40 billion will cover it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oecvYFq_wi0&app=desktop

yep that is one big bar tab!