(04-27-2022, 01:07 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-27-2022, 09:19 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Why do you just post your opinions as if they are facts?

He never said NATO owed the US money. He just said the USA has footed the bill for [BLEEP] decades and no one else gave a [BLEEP]. Which is true.

Statements of fact don't begin with "I don't think" or "I think".  
Statements beginning with those words are clearly opinions.

But here are Trump's actual words in 2018, addressing leaders of other NATO countries at a meeting in Europe. "Frankly, many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back, where they're delinquent, as far as I'm concerned...". I'm cutting the quote of early, but the verb "owe" is used one more time.  So this opinion of mine is based in fact.

(04-27-2022, 02:03 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-27-2022, 01:07 PM)mikesez Wrote: Statements of fact don't begin with "I don't think" or "I think".  
Statements beginning with those words are clearly opinions.

But here are Trump's actual words in 2018, addressing leaders of other NATO countries at a meeting in Europe. "Frankly, many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back, where they're delinquent, as far as I'm concerned...". I'm cutting the quote of early, but the verb "owe" is used one more time.  So this opinion of mine is based in fact.

They owe us a [BLEEP] ton of money for the Marshall Plan, not that we'd ever try to collect. They owe us a lot for what we've paid for over the last 70 years, again, not that we'd try to collect. We'd be happy if they just foot the bill for their own defense.