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Robert Pape

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PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

And I say, yeah, we say we're Uncle Sucker, but who's the sucker here?

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

Who's the real sucker here?

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

See, I understand President Trump saying if he just looks at this statistic about who's paying for defense.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

And he's right on the numbers.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

This is not a mistake of numbers.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

It's not that President Trump's getting his numbers wrong.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

But as a businessman, you know, if you're up against companies here, if you're one of the big mega companies here and you're 26% of the market and your competitor is here at like 7%, 8% of the market,

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

And you stay at 26 and they go to four.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

Who's got the power here?

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

Who's gaining power here?

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

We're gaining power.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

I'm very concerned that what's going to happen in the next five, 10 years is we'll go from 26 to 22 to 23 percent, something like that.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

Other countries, and I'm mostly worried about China, are just going to eat our lunch.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

And then maybe even the Europeans will start to get their act together.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

and start to become economically stronger.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

Now, I'm not saying they will for sure, but we have not had our lunch eaten from us here since the end of the Cold War, and this is over 30 years.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

So this isn't just a yearly thing.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

So I really believe that we are not using – I keep trying to explain.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

We're focusing on issues of tactics.

PBD Podcast
“NATO Is DEAD” - The Insider Who Warned 4 Presidents About Iran | PBD #795

We're not focusing on the bigger picture numbers here, the bigger picture outcomes here.