(12-31-2021, 02:32 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

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(12-31-2021, 01:02 PM)mikesez Wrote: That is what Trump said, but the NATO allies never owed the United States any money.  They were supposed to be spending more of their own money on their own armies and navies, so that we could spend less of our money. Nearly every country in NATO decreased their defense spending under Obama and increased it under Trump.  But time will tell if Trump's posturing had any lasting effect.  Hopefully Biden not only keeps up the pressure on our allies, but finds ways to spend more wisely at home.

Six of one, half dozen of the other. We were incurring greater costs because they were knowingly bilking us.

But let's be honest.  You seem like an informed individual.  Did it not concern you, that he repeatedly insisted that China, Mexico, and NATO all owed money to us, when they didn't?  To you it came across as shorthand for them rectifying their own spending, border policies, and trade relationships.  But don't you see that you're in the minority, that the majority of those who heard it, literally thought that those countries owe us money, and if that point of view is allowed to go unchallenged, the next President might literally think that they owe us money?

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