Donald Trump’s NATO Speech delivered a
strong message of the financial burden that is on America and that has not been
shared by the other member nations. The
US is footing the bill. Donald Trump also stressed that NATO must take on a new
role to combat terrorism and immigration, which are the new threats facing the
world, which would redefine NATO, which lost its main purpose at the end of the
Cold War.
Donald Trump gave a brilliant speech with
facts and figures to drive home his points. It is true, the defense of Europe
should not be put on the shoulders of America’s taxpayers. With so many NATO
members that are also EU members, and with the EU the world’s largest economy,
there is no reason that EU nations cannot to meet their commitment.
The question is will these nations pay their
share? If they don’t how will Donald Trump react? He has already threatened
to quit NATO
if the member nations do not
pay up. The question is will those
countries pay or rather take those funds and pool their money for an EU wide
army that will guarantee their security? It is likely they will put those funds into an
EU wide military. Donald Trump laid out the line in the sand in his speech for NATO
nations to pay their share.
An EU army is already on the table, EU
leaders met in Rome for the 6oth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome this year and
decided to go forward with greater unity, New French President Emmanuel Macron
met with Commission President Jean Claude Juncker after meeting with Trump in
Brussels and let Juncker know that France
will be an ally and do all it can to make the European Union stronger.
The question is where will NATO fit in all
of this? Will NATO eventually cease to exist or will it function in a diminished
capacity.
In this multipolar age we will see the European Union rise as the reigning power, that is in the EU’s and America’s future based on Bible Prophecy. NATO future waits to be seen and I will be updating you as the events unfold.
In the meantime Donald Trump’s NATO speech is next in its entirety.
NATO
Headquarters
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much, Secretary General
Stoltenberg. Chancellor Merkel, thank you very much. Other heads of
state and government, I am honored to be here with members of an alliance that
has promoted safety and peace across the world.
Prime Minister May, all of the nations here today grieve with you and
stand with you. I would like to ask that we now observe a moment of
silence for the victims and families of the savage attack which took place in
Manchester. (A moment of silence is observed.) Thank you. Terrible
thing.
This ceremony is a day for both remembrance and resolve. We
remember and mourn those nearly 3,000 innocent people who were brutally
murdered by terrorists on September 11th, 2001. Our NATO allies responded
swiftly and decisively, invoking for the first time in its history the Article
5 collective defense commitments.
The recent attack on Manchester in the United Kingdom demonstrates the
depths of the evil we face with terrorism. Innocent little girls and so
many others were horribly murdered and badly injured while attending a concert
-- beautiful lives with so much great potential torn from their families
forever and ever. It was a barbaric and vicious attack upon our
civilization.
All people who cherish life must unite in finding, exposing, and removing
these killers and extremists -- and, yes, losers. They are losers.
Wherever they exist in our societies, we must drive them out and never,
ever let them back in.
This call for driving out terrorism is a message I took to a historic
gathering of Arab and Muslim leaders across the region, hosted by Saudi Arabia.
There, I spent much time with King Salman, a wise man who wants to see
things get much better rapidly. The leaders of the Middle East have
agreed at this unprecedented meeting to stop funding the radical ideology that
leads to this horrible terrorism all over the globe.
My travels and meetings have given me renewed hope that nations of many
faiths can unite to defeat terrorism, a common threat to all of humanity.
Terrorism must be stopped in its tracks, or the horror you saw in
Manchester and so many other places will continue forever. You have
thousands and thousands of people pouring into our various countries and
spreading throughout, and in many cases, we have no idea who they are. We
must be tough. We must be strong. And we must be vigilant.
The NATO of the future must include a great focus on terrorism and
immigration, as well as threats from Russia and on NATO’s eastern and southern
borders. These grave security concerns are the same reason that I have
been very, very direct with Secretary Stoltenberg and members of the Alliance
in saying that NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet
their financial obligations, for 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying
what they should be paying and what they’re supposed to be paying for their
defense.
This is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States.
And many of these nations owe massive amounts of money from past years
and not paying in those past years. Over the last eight years, the United
States spent more on defense than all other NATO countries combined. If
all NATO members had spent just 2 percent of their GDP on defense last year, we
would have had another $119 billion for our collective defense and for the
financing of additional NATO reserves.
We should recognize that with these chronic underpayments and growing
threats, even 2 percent of GDP is insufficient to close the gaps in
modernizing, readiness, and the size of forces. We have to make up for
the many years lost. Two percent is the bare minimum for confronting
today’s very real and very vicious threats. If NATO countries made their
full and complete contributions, then NATO would be even stronger than it is
today, especially from the threat of terrorism.
I want to extend my appreciation to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New
York for contributing this remnant of the North Tower, as well as to Chancellor
Merkel and the German people for donating this portion of the Berlin Wall.
It is truly fitting that these two artifacts now reside here so close
together at the new NATO Headquarters. And I never asked once what the
new NATO Headquarters cost. I refuse to do that. But it is
beautiful.
Each one marks a pivotal event in the history of this Alliance and in the
eternal battle between good and evil. On one side, a testament to the
triumph of our ideals over a totalitarian Communist ideology bent on the
oppression of millions and millions of people; on the other, a painful reminder
of the barbaric evil that still exists in the world and that we must confront
and defeat together as a group, as a world.
This twisted mass of metal reminds us not only of what we have lost, but
also what forever endures -- the courage of our people, the strength of our
resolve, and the commitments that bind us together as one.
We will never forget the lives that were lost. We will never
forsake the friends who stood by our side. And we will never waiver in
our determination to defeat terrorism and to achieve lasting security,
prosperity and peace.
Thank you very much. It’s a great honor to be here. Thank
you.
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