Michael Ramirez for February 15, 2024

Well, NATO countries that are not paying for their own defense kinda earned cries of, “Let ’em die.” At least SOME NATO countries are spending for their own defense, now. It is bloody well about time. They’ve been living high on their misspent defense money. The Piper Putin is here to present the bill. Are these countries worth OUR standard of living to protect if they won’t pay to protect themselves?

Seems “that horrid man” is correct again.

{o.o}

Another reason to vote Democratic up and down the ticket.

What percent of their GDP are these country spending on Humanitarian aid? What they spend there is just as important as what the spend on military. Also, just because a country is spending 2% on their military doesn’t mean that the money was well spent.

YOU SUPPORTED THIS GUY!!!!!!!!! EVERYBODY ELSE SAW THAT HE WAS UNEDUCATED, SELF-SERVING IDIOT IN 2015 (or 1980, if you were paying attention) BUT YOU AND YOUR ILK HAILED HIM AS THE NEW SAVIOR!

Holy flying torpedoes dude. Anyone in the military who supports Trump is a dumb dumb.

Totally off topic but Ukraine has just destroyed another Russian war ship in the Black Sea with a sea drone. That’s 1/3 of the Russian fleet destroyed. Is the U.S.stocking up on these simple, relatively inexpensive weapons for possible future use, i.e. Chinese warships?

You are absolutely on target, Mr. Ramirez, but understand that as much as some might wish otherwise, the only realistic alternative to a catastrophic Trump presidency is the reelection of Joe Biden.

One of the hallmarks of a successful leader in diplomacy and war is that he can be hard to predict when necessary. The opponent doesn’t know what he’ll do next. Just where is the target? It’s unsettling. It freezes them up and requires they cover all bases equally (just where will the Allies land on D-Day?). Trump can be quite unpredictable. Biden is quite predictable.

Has Michael Ramirez finally opened his eyes and believes his own ears?

Yep! We can’t have a President who would require that NATO pay their part. Just ask the American taxpayers to pay it all. We have PLENTY of extra money!

As much as I dislike the man (on personal as well as policy grounds), Trump is right about NATO. America has been funding European security since WW II. NATO was created to keep the Russians out, the Germans down, and America in.

from Gore Vidal’s book Dreaming War …..“for those interested in just how ruinous NATO membership will be for the new members, there is the special report ‘NATO expansion: time to reconsider’, by the British American Security Information Council and the Centre for European Security and Disarmament. …lunacy geopolitically and disastrous economically "

Yesterday’s News: Germany agrees to pay up its 2% NATO dues after Trump’s threat. Trump isn’t even president yet and he is putting the fear of God in our NATO “allies.” Make America Great Again.

The number of NATO member nations meeting or exceeding the alliance’s spending target is ONLY one-third, according to official estimates.

The numbers have been highlighted after former US president Donald Trump made comments suggesting he might encourage Russia to attack members of the alliance who do not pay enough to NATO. Mr. Ramirez should publicize this fact also.

just another way to say pay your “fair share” in defense spending, kinda like how the virtuous Deep State Swamp screeches about income taxes, except for their own of course…and for you rabid ForeverTrumpHaters, Trump follows the same IRS tax code that is passed by the Congress and followed by the likes of the freshly minted multi-millionaires public trough feeding leeches that draw their wealth from insider info

Now that Putin has used a.. useful idiot, to leak a new global threat surely we need trump to save the world.. buddies don’t annihilate buddies and evidently.. trump and Putin are best buds.

You don’t get it. Making NATO nations pay their fair share STRENGTHENS the alliance.

Yep high inflation, uncontrolled north & south borders, high taxes, dumb president FJB

OMG, this is brutal. I’ve never said this before: “Go Mike!”

When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.

Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

Any veteran who votes for Trump is dishonoring the people who served with him— especially those who are on Trump’s list of “suckers and losers” and consequently unable to vote themselves.

Wanting the rest of NATO to pay his fair share, nothing wrong with that. We have been supporting them for 80 years. Enough is enough pay your fair share. We do not need NATO NATO needs us. Fed up with the freeloaders in Europe. Trump was right.

The Trump/Putin party gives aid and comfort to dictators and the enemies of the USA.

As if doing that could EVER make any sense.