PP //and that was the status quo for 50y until Trump said he was strengthening NATO by pulling out ( in his Polisj speech). Makes no sense, well it was trump.//
Untrue! it was a malicious slur from Hillary Clinton
Clinton, May 8: Being a loose cannon is saying we should pull out of NATO, the strongest military alliance in the history of the world and something that we really need to modernize, but not abandon.
While Trump has gone so far as saying that, as president, he would consider pulling the U.S. out of NATO - IF IT IS NOT RESTRUCTURED, we’ve found no instance of him saying he wants to do so at this point. [2016] And the Clinton campaign hasn’t been able to point to an example of Trump saying that either.
In fact, it was during the interview with the Post, which initially brought attention to Trump’s feelings about NATO, that Trump said that he doesn’t want the U.S. to leave the alliance.
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