Cog wrote:
If Europe thinks Russia is a problem, then they need to man up with their own military spending and sanctions. Don't make your problems our problems.
The US is party to the NATO treaty which obligates the US to defend our allies from Russian invasion. Trump is right that almost all our NATO partners need to spend more to fulfill their treaty oblations to NATO, but the NATO treaty obligates us to defend even those laggard treaty members who won't bother to spend on their own defense.
NATO is in severe trouble now that Turkey is cozying up to Russia. Perhaps the whole treaty needs to be reworked to address some of the problems that Trump has identified, just as NAFTA needed to be updated and improved.
Cheers!