You seriously think...Says the guy who never does any thinking of his own. Nor believes his own eyes.
NATO is primarily a political organization?Maybe you will "hear" about it some day. Or maybe not. Does not matter to me.
The way NATO leadership functions is by its very definition political.I had to stop reading there and respond: You seriously think NATO is primarily a political organization? God help Europe, if enough others agree with you!
Yes. The way NATO leadership functions is by its very definition political. The first and foremost position in NATO leadership is Secretary General who has never been an American. Also the first and foremost *military* position in NATO (this one) has been, more often than not, other than American.Never once has Nato's Secretary General been an American.(So, General Christopher G. Cavoli is just a political appointee?)
Never once has Nato's Secretary General been an American.
(So, General Christopher G. Cavoli is just a political appointee?)This even applies in the current war in Ukraine. Yes, Western countries provide military supplies to Ukraine. However, at the same time they prevent Ukraine from attacking Russia with the most effective weapons they are providing. What is the point of HIMARS, Taurus, and what will be the point of F-16 when you cannot wage war with them against the aggressor? Also the money that goes to trade with Russia (despite all the alleged sanctions) far exceeds the support to Ukraine.Well, I agree with much of what ersi says here.... But, unless Russia directly attacks the U.S., my country isn't going to declare war on Russia.[1] And it will likely -especially while headed by Trump- seek to avooid WW III. (Some don't seem to be worried about such...)
I was surprised to hear that only American Generals had lead NATO... That's absurd: If our ally's aren't capable of leading, they're only followers.Never once has Nato's Secretary General been an American. You keep bringing the most profound ignorance to every topic you touch, and you are clearly not even trying to improve.
In terms that even ersi can understand: Not good!
Pick out your examples that you think are real and show the evidence.My favorites were USAID's expenditures promoting atheism in Indonesia and Sesame Street in Iraq! (Trump didn't highlight them in his speech...) As always, you want an opportunity for a "gotcha" moment; nothing else matters to you — as far as I can tell.
Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified: $22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens, $45 million for diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma, $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is. $8 million to promote LGBTQ+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of, $60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America. $60 million. $8 million for making mice transgender.Here's fraud Trump cited.
This is real. $32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova. $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique. $20 million for the Arab “Sesame Street” in the Middle East, it’s a program, $20 million for program. $1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of homes committee — headed up and we know she’s involved just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her? A $3.5 million consulting contract for lavish fish monitoring. $1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia, $14 million for social cohesion in Mali, $59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City, real estate developers done very well. $250,000 to increase vegan local climate action innovation in Zambia, $42 million for social and behavior change in Uganda, $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia, $47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing very well with learning. You know what we’re doing? Should use it ourselves. A $101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education.
We found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud... The Government Accountability Office, federal government office, has estimated annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation, and we are working very hard to stop it.Pick out your examples that you think are real and show the evidence.
Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old. It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119. I don’t know any of them. I know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly. 3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129, 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139, 3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149, and money is being paid to many of them, and we’re searching right now. In fact, Pam, good luck, good luck. You’re going to find it. But a lot of money is paid out to people, because it just keeps getting paid and paid, and nobody does, and it really hurts Social Security and hurts our country, 1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159 and over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are age over 160 years old. We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.
Including, to finish, 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229, one person between the age of 240 and 249 and one person is listed at 360 years of age — more than 100 years, more than 100 years older than our country. But we’re going to find out where that money is going, and it’s not going to be pretty, by slashing all of the fraud, waste and theft.