Answering questions during his press briefing today, President Trump was asked about NATO’s Article 5 mutual-defense provision and offered his first public, direct confirmation that he is committed to military mutual defense of all other NATO member nations.
This had been a question for some time, with Trump’s previous comments on the alliance suggesting he was limiting his willingness to provide military support only to certain NATO member nations whom he felt were sufficiently committed to supporting the US.
The lack of a direct confirmation of this position would not normally be a big deal, except that other nations have been speculating on Trump’s position based on him calling NATO “obsolete” during the presidential campaign, and while other US officials insisted nothing had changed, Trump himself seemed to be going out of his way to dance around the issue.
It was particularly surprising, given his past evasiveness on the matter, that he was so quick with a pledge to “absolutely” be committed to Article 5 when asked directly about it today during his visit with the Romanian president. Whether that ends questions about Trump’s commitment from other NATO members, however, remains to be seen.
The new President of the Philippines tries to hide the fact that he is just a puppet of the military. Problem is, he just allowed the U.S. Special Forces to join the shootout now being fought with terrorists on the island that contains most of the countries natural resources.
New President of South Korea was elected mainly because he promised to oppose the Western aggression and war-mongering against North Korea. Comes now President Moon to give full approval of all the new Western sanctions imposed upon North Korea.
President of Venezuela won election primarily on his promise to stop the rich from continuing their economical slavery over all of society. Problem is, nothing has been done to take 90% of the wealth away from the rich, to take 90% ownership of media away from the rich or to stop the rich from funding a militia opposition that has both government and the public absolutely terrorized.
Time to realize that democracy is nothing more then terrorizing slavery at the hands of the 51% most wealthy and greedy. Time to let the upper-half do all of their own manual labor.
If only Trump could make up his mind who his enemies are.