Originally Posted by
flyprdu
Yeah. They had until 2024 to do it per the charter. It was a bogus complaint to cover for the fact that Trump was going to withdraw from NATO. Which would have paved the way for his best buddy Putin to reassemble the USSR.
Nonsense. Both the George Bush administration and the Obama administration have been after the European nations to increase their defense spending. The have repeatedly delayed and reneged (Poland excepted) since that time, and showed little signs of moving that way until about a week ago. And it was the Obama administration - not Trump, who quietly accepted Russia taking over the Crimea. And the current POTUS (who was in the Obama administration those eight years) only a few weeks ago stated publicly that he would essentially accept Russia annexing the two Russian speaking separatist areas.
You can IMAGINE Trump would have done practically anything, but none of this stuff happened on his watch.