US officials say that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will skip the April 5-6 meeting with NATO foreign ministers in Belgium, as the visit coincides with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States to meet with President Trump, and Tillerson attends to be there.
This move is likely to fuel more complaints from other NATO member nations that the Trump Administration is not prioritizing them. This is doubly true because Tillerson is also said to be planning a visit to Moscow to meet with Russian officials the following week.
NATO officials have been complaining since before the inauguration that the Trump Administration is too close with Russia, and while it isn’t unusual for a US Secretary of State to visit Russia, it’s all but inevitable that those officials will make a big deal of Tillerson doing so.
This is not Tillerson’s first visit to Russia, of course, as the former head of Exxon Mobil had years of experience negotiating deals with the Russian government on access to the nation’s vast petroleum resources. With so much attention being paid to Trump Administration contacts with Russia, even such well-documented past contacts are likely to arouse suspicions, and Tillerson’s visit is likely to lead to a new flurry of political statements on Russia contacts.
Good. Relations with our two major adversaries are vital. NATO meetings of this sort are clusters of neocons stirring conflict and massaging each other’s ego.
NATO needs a housecleaning, not stroking its collective ego.
The native Orthodox Christian Russian people took back their nation and kicked out the mass murdering Bolsheviks when they collapsed the Soviet Union. It it the West’s misfortune that many of them and their descendants also known as “Red Diaper Babies” came into the US, Canada, EU, and Australia and gained prominence and influence as they morphed into the Cultural Marxist Neocons and Liberal Democrats.
The West needs a “De-Bolshevization-” Program
De-Bolshevization and the March of the Useful Idiots
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/debolshevization_and_the_march_of_the_useful_idiots.html#ixzz4byPirGdW
In the kleptocracy of Trump, Jared and Ivanka are the real SoS anyway.
Good. NATO is obsolete!!!
Rose please! Nato is not obsolete. Trump misspoke when he said that and there’s no reason to think that he now feels that way about Nato. I must have been over this a hundred times by now!
The main message is simply, Trump said a lot of stupid things during his campaign. Most obviously intended to please the lowlife as-holes who were supporting him. Check out the Snowden video on one of the other threads.
Tell me what benefit NATO brings to anyone except the bigwigs with jobs there. It should have been abolished in 1991 with the Warsaw pact- no longer needed when the evil communist world conspiracy disappeared with the breakup of the USSR.
NATO and the EU can sharpen their swords without the help of the US.