.MaddowBlog: Why Pres. Trump's latest foreign-policy gambit is so hard to defend
At this point, we could note the fact that there's no such thing as a NATO"fee," which is a detail Trump really ought to understand by now. We could also explain that Germany is not, in reality,"delinquent." We could also note how embarrassing it ought to be when a president and his own Defense secretary explain the same decision in contradictory ways at roughly the same time.
, that Trump is undermining his own ostensible point by moving U.S. troops to other European countries that are also not spending 2% of their respective economies on defense.
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