Tillerson plans to skip NATO

[CarlV]

Or is it Dasvidaniya NATO?

By Arshad Mohammed and John Walcott | WASHINGTON

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip a meeting with NATO foreign ministers next month in order to stay home for a visit by China's president and will go to Russia later in April, U.S. officials said on Monday, disclosing an itinerary that allies may see as giving Moscow priority over them.

Tillerson intends to miss what would have been his first meeting of the 28 NATO allies on April 5-6 in Brussels so that he can attend President Donald Trump's expected April 6-7 talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, four current and former U.S. officials said.

Skipping the NATO meeting and visiting Moscow could risk feeding a perception that Trump may be putting U.S. dealings with big powers first, while leaving waiting those smaller nations that depend on Washington for security, two former U.S. officials said.

Trump has often praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Tillerson worked with Russia's government for years as a top executive at Exxon Mobil Corp, and has questioned the wisdom of sanctions against Russia that he said could harm U.S. businesses.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...2F+Top+News%29

Carl

[MrPots]

Sooooo..is Mar a Lago the new white house?

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by CarlV

Or is it Dasvidaniya NATO?




Carl

No. Just telling the French, Brits and especially the Germans that it is their time to take the lead in Europe. Uncle Sam needs a rest.

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Sooooo..is Mar a Lago the new white house?

US taxpayers 3 million a week above and beyond because Camp David isn't elite enough, I meant good enough.

Carl

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

No. Just telling the French, Brits and especially the Germans that it is their time to take the lead in Europe. Uncle Sam needs a rest.

Now that is funny and I guess I am supposed to believe stuff like that from Agent Orange, Liar-In-Chief. If so, then maybe it is time for the EU to say FU to the USA.


Carl

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by CarlV

Now that is funny and I guess I am supposed to believe stuff like that from Agent Orange, Liar-In-Chief. If so, then maybe it is time for the EU to say FU to the USA.


Carl

Carl, Uncle Sam has been carrying the load for a long time and Germany is doing quite well.

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Carl, Uncle Sam has been carrying the load for a long time and Germany is doing quite well.

So?


Carl

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by CarlV

So?


Carl

At least it should step up to the agreed 2%GDP.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

No. Just telling the French, Brits and especially the Germans that it is their time to take the lead in Europe. Uncle Sam needs a rest.

Does not sound like a rest to me.

In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.

So are we switching alliances now that Warsaw Pact is dead, because that's what it is beginning to look like. May be there will be a remake of 'Russians are coming".

[CarlV]

Reminds me of my Politifact visit the other day. Vast sums of money...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...owes-vast-sum/

Orange you glad I didn't say Apple again?


Carl