Trump commits to NATO defense, slams Russian aggression

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The Washington Times
By Dave Boyer
Thursday, July 6, 2017


President Trump voiced a clear commitment Thursday to NATO’s “Article 5” principle of common defense, reassuring nervous Europeans who had worried about his support for the alliance.


Speaking to a huge crowd in Poland, Mr. Trump said Europeans should never question the U.S. commitment to NATO.
“The United States has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind Article 5,” Mr. Trump said in a speech to tens of thousands of cheering Poles. He had raised concerns in the spring when, during a visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, he neglected to mention Article 5.


But Mr. Trump reminded the audience in Poland, “Our defense is not just a commitment of money, it is a commitment of will.”
“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive,” Mr. Trump said in Krasinski Square in Warsaw. “Our own fight for the West does not begin on the battlefield — it begins with our minds, our wills, and our souls.”


Standing only a few hundred miles from Moscow, Mr. Trump also delivered one of his most direct warnings to date to Russia.


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[txradioguy]

This is good to read.

There are countries like Poland and the Czech Republic that are deathly fearful of Putin and what he's doing in Europe these days.  They fear the return of the USSR and rightfully so.

They know that for the most part the U.S. is the only thing standing in his way.