{"id":330121,"date":"2019-12-03T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=330121"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:37:55","slug":"trump-makes-stand-at-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/03\/trump-makes-stand-at-nato-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Makes Stand at NATO Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The media today was going wild over Trump\u2019s comments from the NATO summit in London where he called Macron\u2019s comments about NATO being brain-dead insulting. And, of course, Trump is the guy who has said that NATO is useless, that\u2019s it\u2019s worthless in the United States. It is Trump who has said that none of these other member nations are paying anywhere near their fair share of the operating expenses and the upkeep.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, for those of you who don\u2019t know, there aren\u2019t actually dues. NATO\u2019s not some club where they\u2019ve got a general secretary and an IT director and then somebody in billing and assessment. They don\u2019t send out bills to member nations. The way a member nation pays its responsibilities in NATO is by way of funding its own defense. And that\u2019s what a number of NATO members haven\u2019t been doing. And we never call them on it. And you know why we never call them on it?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same reason this crazy world order that was set up after World War II got set up. Basically, here\u2019s the premise of the current existing world order. It\u2019s unfair that the United States is so big; it\u2019s unfair the United States is so rich; it\u2019s unfair the United States is so prosperous; it\u2019s unfair the United States is so influential and dominate.<\/p>\n

So the United States will pay more than its fair share. The United States will allow member nations of the United Nations to pick its pocket now and then. Americans set this up, by the way. Americans set this up as a way of assuaging their guilt, as a way of, they would say, keeping the peace. But it\u2019s classic. It\u2019s almost people who were embarrassed at the superpower status, both economically, militarily, any number of ways.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not exaggerating this. I\u2019m not making this up. This is classic the way this current world order exists. And what\u2019s always been ironic about it to me, here we have the United States of America who\u2019s been around hundreds of years less than European countries. And, by the way, this is not a rub on European countries, don\u2019t misunderstand me when I say this. There are many, many reasons for this. But in less than 250 years a nation that never existed was founded and became the dominant economic power, moral power, military power the world had ever seen.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, nations around the world, including in Europe, been around thousands of years, can\u2019t even hold a candle to us. Now, as I say, there are reasons for it. So then we have these world organizations, we got European Union, we got the NATO, then we\u2019ve got the G7, the G20, the G8, whatever it is. And in every one of these organizations, the United States is pointed to, “It\u2019s unfair you\u2019re so big. It\u2019s unfair you\u2019re so powerful.” We\u2019ve always had Americans agree. “You know, it really is.”<\/p>\n

And so to balance this out we\u2019ve allowed our pockets to be picked. We have allowed ourselves to be guilted into paying for everything, disaster relief around the world, because we can. But rather than the United States becoming a model for other nations and economies to follow in order to achieve their own degree of such power and success, they have been allowed to go ahead and run themselves as quasi-socialist democracies depending on the United States for trade, for defense, for any number of things.<\/p>\n

And there has been very little real appreciation for it. The real appreciation lasted just a few years after World War II. And depending on who the U.S. president is, they can really hate us, as they do now with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\"\"So Trump comes in like a bull in a china shop and says this whole existing world order stuff doesn\u2019t make any sense. We shouldn\u2019t be the ones having to defend the world, we shouldn\u2019t, the ones having to feed the world. If we\u2019re gonna do it, you\u2019re gonna pay us. For crying out loud, none of this is fair. And these people are freaking out, and they have been ever since he was elected.<\/p>\n

So he shows up to the NATO meeting during the campaign. I\u2019m convinced that one of the reasons the intelligence community, the deep state, were originally appalled at Trump was due to his statements about NATO during the campaign. You know, NATO is like any other bureaucracy. It is set up to perpetuate itself. It is there for its ostensible purpose, to defend member nations against the evil transgressions of tyrannical regimes like in Russia, and at the time East Germany, Soviet Union, what have you.<\/p>\n

Now those tyrannical governments are gone or are much smaller, but NATO hasn\u2019t changed its charter. It\u2019s been allowed to exist, it\u2019s got fat, dumb, and happy, and it\u2019s got its own bureaucracy of people who don\u2019t do much and who don\u2019t want to solve much because then there\u2019s no reason to exist. And NATO, like a number of other bureaucracies in the United States, has become a place where the elites exclusively appoint themselves and their children and use it to fatten their lifestyles.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not exaggerating this. That\u2019s why Trump is viewed as such a threat, because he has no respect for that. That\u2019s not what the purpose of NATO is. For him, NATO is defensive in nature. It is there to protect member states against aggression. It\u2019s not there to make sure your kids have a job in the future. It\u2019s not there to make sure that you have three homes somewhere. It\u2019s not there to perpetuate your constant leadership position whether you\u2019ve earned it or not.<\/p>\n

It has a specific purpose. That specific purpose has been watered down and diluted, and Trump wants to build it back up. And he thinks the only way it\u2019s gonna happen is if these member states actually pay for what they are getting, what they are being provided.<\/p>\n

For the longest time the Europeans didn\u2019t fund any of their own defense. We were putting missiles in Europe to protect them and us against whatever aggression might come from the Soviet Union or from East Germany or from any of the other Soviet — the Eastern Bloc. And that allowed them to become these fat, dumb, and happy welfare states that allowed them to experiment with open borders because their birthrate replacement levels started plunging. They didn\u2019t have enough of their own native human beings to maintain populations, so like Angela Merkel opening up the borders to let immigrants from all over the world in thinking it\u2019s gonna lead to all kinds of new employees feeding new industries and jobs. And of course it\u2019s done nothing but corrupt her culture.<\/p>\n

Trump sees all of this and is hell-bent on taking it back to what it intended to be. And there\u2019s so many people who depend on NATO as it has become. Trump is viewed as somebody who\u2019s gonna turn everything upside down, harm them professionally, harm them economically. This will not — especially some guy who in their view isn\u2019t even qualified to be president or to tell them which way is up when it comes to American foreign policy.<\/p>\n

Remember when the Democrats in Congress, the media, were telling us that Trump is gonna destroy NATO? That\u2019s what they were originally afraid of. That\u2019s why they got their backs all arched up and out of whack. Trump has actually made it stronger, just like Trump has improved the U.S. economy, just like Trump has improved American trade deals around the world and our status.<\/p>\n

He has made NATO stronger than ever by jawboning these other member states into increasing their own defense spending. Western Europe is much more capable of defending itself than it\u2019s ever been. And they are mad as heck at Trump about it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s interesting is that Trump is being blasted by the very same people who never wanted him to be elected president because he was blasting NATO, because he was criticizing and ripping NATO for being ineffective. The United States was paying way too much of a burden, not just financially, but in the actual defense of Europe. They were getting off easy. It was time for them to share more of the load, more of the burden, particularly for their own defense. These people wigged out.<\/p>\n

“This guy is dangerous. This guy is upsetting the order!”<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s kind of like those civil servants (whining), “He\u2019s going outside the channels! He\u2019s ignoring the interagency group!” It\u2019s the same thing here. It\u2019s identical. In fact, you remember those people that showed up and testified, Colonel Vindman…? I\u2019m sorry. Lieutenant Colonel Vindman — O say can you see — and then Fiona Hill and what\u2019s her name, Yovanovitch. All these, they\u2019re NATO people. It\u2019s all the same type of bureaucrat\/civil servant\/diplomat\/intelligence official, whoever, and they\u2019re all…<\/p>\n

Remember they were wigging out? So what did Trump do? Trump today fired back at the French leader, Macron, who ripped into NATO, saying that NATO is “experiencing … brain death.” Trump called Macron\u2019s comments “very insulting and nasty.” If anybody\u2019s gonna insult NATO, it\u2019s gonna be Donald Trump, but none of these other people are. When they start insulting NATO, he comes to its defense — and the reason is, it\u2019s doing things right for a change now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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