democratic republic doesn t want to repeat the experience. these people want to be desperately aligned with us for their own interests so that they can protect themselves against what they view as an inevitable russian attempt to regain control of their countries. by the way, there is a lot of evidence to support their contention. the problem is, warfare has changed. we can t permanently station troops in poland. if we did, they would be killed in the first strike site launched in the early iris of any intervention. we can t be the first responder, and the president knows that. he wants to support them, he wants to reinforce them but he wants them to be your own first responder. brian: i m getting to the rap signal through my ear. but real quick, people getting upset saying the president is nicer to vladimir putin then he is around allies, don t you think it s a matter of you expect more from your friends, family and neighbors then you do if your rivals/enemies? maybe. but i think
it s that straightforward. and germany is the among the worst offenders among them and is the most egregious in its traded imbalances. it has run trade surpluses, get ready for this one, for 67 years. good lord. brian: so a couple things. number one the president is ticked off at germanyny in particular because they put the hubbub of this gasnd line right through germany and pass european nations that burned a threat from russia and they didn t seem to care. what are the explanations by the germany current secretary laws, listening. in 2002, russia was different then. they become somewhat belligerent so they are stuck with this deal. can you put the ratchets down and unscrew the pipeline and maybe change the tactics? and we have this thing called oil and gas, too, don t we lou? wouldn t it be reliable by us? it would and a host of other
also when we were attacked on 9/11, it was nato that stepped up and helped us invoke articleo five. nato is so important to us and president trump is not doing tht work to basically state that. he can stay productive criticisms of nato but also could acknowledge how important it is for the security framework. those who have criticisms are right. and that helps defeat the warsaw pact. that was the soviet bloc led alliance. and that s also super important. now exactly what putin and russia want is for nato to be weak, to be broken apart. trump is in essence helping putin do that by openly criticizing nato, by being very difficult and hard on nato, instead of coming up with productive criticisms. david, you have a good point
germany is the capital of russia. despite looking at the american team, they look around and say, this is a little different. other networks were horrified, especially this place called msnbc. former nato investor nicholas burns made claims that it is or will he and for the president to say exactly what he thinks. it s infuriating to watch this happen. you can t imagine any american president all the way back 75 years, deciding to become the critic and chief of nato. it s orwellian. it s infuriating to see this happen, diplomatic malpractice. meanwhile, hours after the president s comments, the u.s. house, and president s remarks were controversial to some but, were they wrong? lou dobbs, star of the lou dobbs show, and i believe that s exactly who i m looking at right now from fox business.ta
countries. it would also be very helpful to foreign policy goals in that i region. but the reality here is, the germans haven t lost their free will. they are following their leader. and angela merkel has decided that there is not much difference between a socialist of germany, and the communist of russia. and she and hooton, despite her rhetoric, and have a rather amicable relationship. and gerhardt schroeder is the head of the new pipeline that is bypassing the ukraine, among other countries and going straight and it directly to the