NATO was originally designed as a military alliance where Europe would become an independent power allied with a strong America, not a dependent region requiring constant US support; however, over time, European allies have failed to meet their financial and military obligations, leading to a situation where the US bears disproportionate costs while allies like France refuse to allow US military aircraft over their airspace and the UK delays troop deployment until after conflicts end, prompting calls for the US to reduce its NATO commitments.
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Trump TORCHES European Leaders TO THEIR FACES! Now — U.S. Troops COMING HOME! | Trish Regan
Added:Not while the war was going on. I was a little disappointed.
Uh the UK, I said, "Yeah, it would be nice if you send ship." I didn't put a hard cell on, but I said, "It would be nice if you sent some ships." And uh the prime minister said, "They'll be there, sir, as soon as the war is over." I said, "Did he just say that?" I couldn't believe it, actually.
>> He did say that.
The president has been going on and on and on about this, okay? I mean, ever since back in 2016 when he stood up there in front of him and called them all out for not paying what they needed to pay and now he's gotten to the point where he's like, "It's so bad. You're still not paying." And on top of not paying when we need some help, a little bit of help here and there, you won't even give it to us. I mean, we're the ones that have been keeping you afloat so that you can do all the stupid things you've done with all your migration policies, which by the way, finally, they've just woken up to that one. We'll get to that in the show today, too. But I'm telling you, you know what? Times are a changing. You can't do this anymore. You can't stiff us on the check. We are coming and we are collecting. We got our bankers involved.
Okay. And Pete, you know, he's no slouch. He went to Princeton.
And and I think did he go to Harvard, too? Anyway, he used to be a banker way back when on Wall Street before he went to to work in the service. But I'll tell you, Pete Hgsth is going to hold them accountable. And if you're not paying, guess what? We're not going to help you out because we know you're not going to help us out. Which might mean, as the Carnegie Foundation released in its report two days ago, we might actually just bail on NATO all together. We're going to just start whittling down and whittling down and whittling down everything that we've been giving you.
So, yeah, Georgia Maloney, you may want to get with the program. Little Pedrito Sanchez, I think you may be voted out soon, but you might want to get with the program. UK, forget about why do you think the guy who's the defense minister in the UK stepped down because he didn't want to meet the wrath of Donald Trump and Pete Hegsath and Marco Rubio and Whitaker and the rest of them. Let's go back to Pete Secretary of War Pete Hegath who who's making a historical analogy here. In other words, Eisenhower even said it. You know what this thing if in 10 years we're still trying to keep it afloat, then we have failed. In other words, we are here to make an independent Europe. And somehow instead of having an independent Europe, we got a little baby who's like, you know, still sucking on their thumb and begging mom and dad for everything. Here we go.
Pete, >> Europe was not supposed to be a dependency of the United States. That's not what Winston Churchill or Charles de Gaulle or Conrad Adenhau wanted or expected. No, Europe was supposed to be a military power.
allied with a strong America. This is the essence of NATO 1.0.
As Dwight Eisenhower himself said as early as 1951, if in 10 years all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole process will have failed.
Eisenhower was Supreme Allied Commander then, not yet our nation's 34th president. But he and his allied counterparts, all of them still living in the shadow of World War II, understood that NATO's power did not come from committees or from meetings or from small flags on fancy tables.
It came from warriors. And for Europe's defense, it had come from NATO allies.
That was NATO 1.0, You know, a hard-edged warfighting organization f focused on Europe's defense. But that spirit faded.
>> Yeah, you better believe it faded. At some point, it just turned into give me, give me, give me. And we're like, okay, how big a check do you need today? I mean, and then, you know, Ukraine happened and everything. The checks kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. At some point we got to say, okay, we got other places to focus, other things that we need to pay attention to. We got an Indoacific region that could, you know, become problematic, shall we say? Um hopefully not, but we need to keep some powder dry, right? We we've got the Middle East that we got to worry about. I mean, we we've obviously been worrying about.
We're the only ones worrying about it for goodness sakes. And so, yeah, Pete Hagath is right. This is not what was intended. Somehow, we lost our way. And Trump's been telling him over and over and over again, you know what, you guys, you screwed up and you're going to pay the price. And that day has now come.
>> We spend trillions of dollars supporting countries. And this is little league.
This isn't the big league deal. This is sort of little league pool for us. They weren't there. So if there's ever a big one, which I hope there's not, but if there's ever a big one, I don't think they're going to be there.
>> And that's not fair. And we have to remember that as a country because we spend trillions of dollars protecting Europe, protecting the countries of NATO. They weren't there for us for small time. This is small time. So what makes you think they'd be there if we needed them for some?
>> Huh? Well, they wouldn't be. I don't think. I mean, I I I think it's it's pretty obvious when France won't even let you fly over their airspace when you got a nice base right down there in Stiggonella in Sichilia, Sicily, right?
And Georgia Maloney is like, "Huh, sorry, can't let you." And then Spain's coming out and just telling you that this whole war is flatout illegal. And the UK is like, "As Donald Trump said, despite being our oldest ally, what does it say?" Well, gee, we'll help you when the war is over. Okay. Doesn't do us much good, right? Then no, no, no, no.
Matt Whitaker, too. Whitaker telling him he's the ambassador to NATO. You guys better get your you know what together.
>> Tell you is, you know, we've been in in overdrive here diplomatically pushing our allies uh both here in Brussels and across uh capitals in Europe and in the Middle East to uh convince everybody.
Unfortunately, it took some convincing that this is more important to them than it is to the United States. I mean, you know, we get very little if any oil through those straight up horm. It certainly is affecting uh, you know, the oil prices in the United States. But that's one of the great things that President Trump was able to do is to make America energy independent. And that independence obviously guarantees our supply. Now, you know, we have allies that are they completely predicated their entire success model upon cheap natural gas from Russia. Oh, gee, that really worked out for you, right? Remember Miracle, Angela Miracle, and what did Donald Trump say to her?
You know, you guys ought to diversify away from Russia. Did they know? Okay, so Miracle made that mistake. You got all of Europe following in her footsteps with those mistakes. The other mistake she made, let's face it, was on immigration. A big big mistake.
She she brought all those people in from Syria and and other parts of the Middle East. And now you got a mess in Germany to the point where now the entire European Union Parliament just voted to say we're going to send the illegals home. I mean what a reversal. You understand guys that this is like America first taking over the world.
This is responsibility taking over the world. This is the reality that you know what you got to look after numero uno.
And once you look after numero uno then you can start branching out. Right? But you guys don't even have your own house in order for goodness sakes. You can't even pay your bills. You're you're looking at us nonstop.
My favorite analogy, my favorite analogy is, you know, these these are like the the teenage kids. No, they're not teenagers anymore. What am I saying? I mean, they're full grown, fullfledged adults, right? With all kinds of privileges and access to mom and dad's bank account. And uh they're they're like hanging out in the weekend house. And mom and dad say, "Hey, you know, we want to come up and spend Saturday night there." And they're like, "Nope, you can't come. It's our house.
We're the ones that are paying the bills. We're the ones that are keeping the electricity on. We're the ones that are supporting all of those bases throughout all of Europe. We got about a 100,000 troops over there. Guess what?
We don't need to have that many. We don't need to be there at all. We don't need to give them a dime." And this is what the Carnegie report just came out this week saying, you know what? Yeah, he's pretty mad about this. Isn't this something for them because they're kind of leftwing and you know they maybe they're they're you know you could say well is this hyperbole? No, I I I actually don't think it is because I know Pete I worked with Pete for a long time. I know the president and the president's felt passionately about this for a whole long time. He's like what are we doing? Like we ought to be getting paid for this, right? We're sending our troops, our resources, our people and what do we get? Zip Zeronatada. Kind of a middle finger too if you ask me.
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