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He has got members to ante up an additional 100 billion dollars. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-is-having-an-impact-nato-head-credits-presidents-tough-talk-for-dollar100b-boost/ar-BBSOGov?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

We pay 75% of NATO's budget to protect Europe et al from mainly Russia. Most other countries pay less than half of the 3.5% of GDP that we pay. Germany, the richest country in Europe pays 1.2% of their GDP into NATO. The EU basically screws us on tariffs. For example, our tariff on a BMW's or Mercedes coming from overseas is a measly 2.5% while the EU's tariff on a Ford built in the USA is 10%. Germany is importing about 12 billion dollars of natural gas from Russia annually. The USA can now export liquified natural gas to Europe. I look at NATO and the EU in some ways as being different arms of the same body. WTF are we doing by allowing the people that we basically protect from Russia to screw us on tariffs and then put money into Russia's coffers? I think it's well past the time to correct this nonsense and it appears that we have a president in place who not only recognizes that but is willing to use our economic and military might to do something about it.

Poland woke up today (Dec. 18) to news that officials from the country’s new right-wing government tried to enter NATO-affiliated counter-intelligence offices in Warsaw after midnight, using a copied key and accompanied by military police, in order to replace the head of the office. “Perhaps in the entire history of NATO it hasn’t happened that a member state attacked a NATO facility,” Tomasz Siemioniak, former minister of defense, currently member of the political opposition, told reporters. The opposition, as well as pundits and journalists, are concerned that the move is part of a campaign by the new Law and Justice government to staff official posts with people loyal to the party. Siemioniak called the night-time takeover an “absolute scandal.” http://qz.com/577452/polands-new-government-raided-nato-counter-intelligence-offices-in-the-middle-of-the-night/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-russia-georgia-southossetia-nato-idUSKBN0ME24S20150318

This seems like one of those press conferences General Managers give about their head coach. The kind where they assure the media their coach's job is safe and not in jeopardy. Then, two days later, the same GM fires said coach. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/06/412506802/putin-to-west-russia-is-no-threat