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👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's less than 10 minutes.
When you listen to it,
Pay particular attention to Article 13.
It explains how countries leave.
They notify us.
There is no specific country for us to notify.
Because the people who made this country a superpower, those who made America great, knew the U.S.
gets more from NATO than it gives.
I know, I know.
But we spend more.
Of course we do.
We maintain an Atlantic and Pacific presence.
But we protect them.
Our bases are there to maintain force projection capabilities.
Additional protection for them is a side effect.
And now that you know NATO's defensive treaty is confined to North America and Europe and the U.S.
uses it to position forces so we don't fight on our soil because it was built to act as a unified hedge against the Soviets.
Then it evolved into countering Russia.
What does that mean for Trump's claims?
He said NATO troops who fought for us in Afghanistan stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.