Author Topic: Donald Trump printed out made-up £300bn Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel  (Read 709 times)

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Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

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Angela Merkel will reportedly ignore Donald Trump’s attempts to extricate £300bn from Germany for what he deems to be owed contributions to Nato.

The US President is said to have had an “invoice” printed out outlining the sum estimated by his aides as covering Germany’s unpaid contributions for defence.

Said to be presented during private talks in Washington, the move has been met with criticism from German and Nato officials.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-angela-merkel-nato-bill-defence-ignore-usa-germany-spending-a7650636.html

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What an ass.

Offline Right_in_Virginia

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Got a copy of the bill?

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What an ass.

He doesn't get it. This will actually increase Merkel's support in Germany, when just letting her failing migration policy wreck havoc was hurting her.

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And then she'll turn around and re-invoice us for the base use at places like Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the Ramstein Air Base. How many tens of thousands of our injured soldiers have been treated at Landstuhl and how many hundreds of thousands of flights have we staged from Ramstein?  (and that's just the tip of the iceberg).

Our NATO treaty is a lot more complicated that just writing a check (write a check to who by the way?)  It is a treaty that involves mutually sharing assets and resources. Some nations like Germany may not write as many checks because they are hosting a lot of NATO partners in their country and offering up a lot of their resources to it.

Especially so when Germany is both a key medical center and midway point to the ME.

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Adding to previous note. Between 2004 and 2010, the Germans have treated over 13,000 of our injured soldiers at Landstuhl.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/30/world/la-fg-afghanistan-wounded-20100831

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He should bill Russia for all the money they made us spend in the Cold War.

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We should all bill the Trump supporters on the forum. "Damages incurred" or something like that.

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Holy crap - I made a joke out of this the other day.  He actually went and did it.   **nononono*