“Many European leaders concede that he basically has a point”, The Times of London said in a rare concession to Donald Trump over his NATO comments that prompted pearl-clutching outrage by some.
European leaders reacted to Donald Trump’s comments on NATO over the weekend — in which he laid out his frustration at member states refusing to pay their way and yet still expecting full protection from America’s military might and hence the U.S. taxpayer — in two ways, a report in The Times reflected.
Not a newspaper particularly friendly to the 45th President, the British broadsheet noted that some reacted with “sheer horror”, like Spain’s Josep Borrell, who unironically accused Trump of unacceptably proposing an “A La Carte” alliance when his home nation has taken that exact approach to it for years.
Yet others, The Times said in an uncharacteristic concession to Trump’s particular approach to cajoling recalcitrant allies into meeting their NATO treaty obligations, realised this was actually an “appallingly cavalier but necessary wake-up call”. In the words, the response was to take Trump’s comments as a statement to be understood “seriously but not literally”.
They know TRUMP is RIGHT !!!
and they know he will be Back in office soon so they better behave !!!!