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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

A former US Army general says Donald Trump's animosity toward NATO has nothing to do with its members not spending enough on their own defense. "Trump hates alliances. He hates an obligation where he'd have to live up to something," retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a former commander of US Army Europe, told the British newspaper The Times in a story published Monday.

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"Mafia type that he is, he doesn't want anybody restricting his options. He couldn't care less about moral obligations. He's willing to chuck the whole thing away," the retired lieutenant general added.

On Saturday, Trump said at a rally in South Carolina that he'd encourage Russia to do "whatever the hell they want" to NATO members who weren't meeting their spending obligations.

The former president has received backlash for his remarks on the military alliance. On Saturday night, the White House slammed Trump's comments, calling them "appalling and unhinged."

While some Republican Party officials have downplayed Trump's remarks as a negotiating tactic, Hodges told The Times that he believed Trump was "absolutely prepared" to abandon Europe if he was elected president again.

"We would be foolish not to take at face value exactly what he says," Hodges told the newspaper.

"In his last term, he did have people around him who were able to moderate certain things, at least for a period of time."

"He won't make that mistake again," Hodges said."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 12:49 PM | Reply

Not true....

Trump wants to ally the US with Russia, North Korea, China, Turkey and other right wing fascist nations.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-13 01:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump hates alliances. He hates an obligation.
- FTA

Possible.

Where he'd have to live up to something.
-FTA

Conjecture to support an unsupported claim.

Is someone not paying pay their fair share "living up to something".

It's odd someone reaping benefits without paying AOK.

This is why Lumpers are losing Americans. Like many other domestic situations.

Everything is taken from the taxpayer, nothing is given.

The contact is broken.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-13 01:33 PM | Reply

US General: Trump is a "Mafia Type" Who Hates Alliances

Republicans: That's why we like Trump

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-13 01:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- Is someone not paying pay their fair share

Hilarious.

Trump is notorious for not paying anyone anytime anywhere if at all possible.

Ax' Rudy G.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 01:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Trump is notorious for not paying anyone anytime anywhere if at all possible.
Ax' Rudy G."

Or all those mayors in cities where Trump held rallies and never paid his bills.

#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-13 03:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Trump is Putin's butt ----.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-02-13 03:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Oh, and let's not forget the 6 times Trumps declared bankruptcy to get out of paying his bills.

www.thoughtco.com

#8 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-13 03:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

Oh, and let's not forget the 6 times Trumps declared bankruptcy to get out of paying his bills.

Or the hundreds of times he contracted with a small business to do work only to refuse to pay until the vendor was forced to take pennies on the dollar to avoid bankruptcy.

He's scum.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-13 03:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 8


@#3 ... Is someone not paying pay their fair share "living up to something". ...

That depends.

What your current alias seems to cite is but one part of the NATO contract.

Will NATO countries participate in the "an attack on one is an attack on all" aspect of NATO?

But, as I noted in another thread ( drudge.com ), fmr Pres Trump's comment came curiously a few days after Pres Putin's interview in which he seemed to say that Poland asked Hitler to invade them.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 06:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Biden: "Can you imagine, a former president of the U.S. saying that? The whole world heard it. The worst thing is he means it. No other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator...For God's sake, it's dumb, it's shameful, it's dangerous, it's unAmerican."

twitter.com

#11 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-02-13 07:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

George Washington warned us about entangling alliances giving us perpetual wars and profits for and creation of oligarchs. We've seen it repeated as our country is hijecked.

We have insiders and a deep state intent on hijacking our country for political purposes.

#12 | Posted by Robson at 2024-02-13 08:35 PM | Reply

Bombshell report tomorrow by Matt Taibbi and Shellenberger about the crooked insiders in our government lying and concocting false stories about Russia and Trump. We need to end this treasonous trend with heavy duty punishment.

#13 | Posted by Robson at 2024-02-13 08:43 PM | Reply

@#12 ... George Washington warned us about entangling alliances...

Yes, but that's cherry-picking.

George Washington's Farewell Address
en.wikipedia.org

... Washington's Farewell Address[1] is a letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States.[2] He wrote it near the end of the second term of his presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in Virginia.

The letter was first published as The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States in Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796, about ten weeks before the presidential electors cast their votes in the 1796 election.

In it, he writes about the importance of national unity while warning Americans of the political dangers of regionalism, partisanship and foreign influence, which they must avoid to remain true to their values.[3] It was almost immediately reprinted in newspapers around the country, and later in pamphlet form.[4] ...

[emphasis mine]

So, what say ye about the partisanship and foreign influence that is mentioned?


Are you OK with the foreign influence that Russia appears to have upon the Republican Party?

Or are you just going to cherry-pick quotes that suit your current needs?


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-13 08:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#13

Is more BS already published in the NY Post from the people who brought you the Hunter's Laptop Lies stories for fun and profit.

The investigation was predicated by the Russians funneling money through the NRA to Trump....

www.dailykos.com

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2024-02-13 09:02 PM | Reply

Bombshell report tomorrow by Matt Taibbi and Shellenberger about the crooked insiders in our government lying and concocting false stories about Russia and Trump. We need to end this treasonous trend with heavy duty punishment.

#13 | Posted by Robson

Why would anyone need to concoct a false story about russia and trump when, out of everyone in the country, trump chose a russian asset as his campaign manager? Got an innocent explanation for that, cult boy?

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-13 09:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

re: #12 Lamplighter "cherry-picking"

I see what you did, there

#17 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-02-14 04:39 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Trump Is a 'Mafia Type' "

That's exactly right. Trump suggests that Russia could do anything it wants if he doesn't think a nation pays its share of NATO expenses. Isn't that almost the very definition of a Mafia protection racket?

#18 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-02-14 11:58 AM | Reply

#12 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Deep state... Squaaaaakk!!

Trump is so deep in your head, we might as well call it a lobotomy.

#19 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-02-14 12:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The mafia accusation is actually fairly accurate.
Like mafiosi, Trump cannot be controlled and that scares the limp left.

#20 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2024-02-14 01:20 PM | Reply

Like mafiosi, Trump cannot be controlled and that scares the limp left.

#20 | Posted by phesterOBoyle

So how come Putin controls him so well?

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-14 01:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's what I've always said about Trump. He's got all the instincts and personality traits of a Mob Boss.

#22 | Posted by shane at 2024-02-14 01:42 PM | Reply

#20

It should scare everybody..

#23 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-02-15 05:47 PM | Reply

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