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And friends are small individual powers but who when bound together in something called nato become an instrument of immense power. by the way, sometimes i think people tend to equate russian military capability with nato military capability. that is an absurd comparison. we out spend russia, we nato 15 to 1. by the way, the european defense budget when you aggregate it is 300 billion. the defense budget of russia is 70 billion. the europeans out spend the russians massively, and they have real troops who have gone to afghanistan, who are blooded and have fought. we out number them three to four to one in troops. we out number them in combat aircraft. ....
That creaking sound you re hearing is the trans-atlantic bridge. the president has gotten some results. there are some additional monies being spent. but you have to question whether or not at the end of the day you undermine the fabric of that alliance excessively by making that your only message every time you show up at nato. and i ll close by saying just to put those free loading europeans in perspective, collectively the european defense budget is the second largest in the world after only the united states . that european defense budget is larger than russia and china combined. karen, the fact is that the president announced the withdrawal from syria without even informing our nato allies who are on the ground there. he did it first in december and then did it for real this last ....