Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would direct President Biden to withdraw the U.S. from NATO. She argues that European countries are not reliable partners and are not paying their fair share of NATO obligations, while the U.S. pays around 4% of its GDP to defend NATO countries. Greene claims that European countries could and should pay more to ensure NATO security instead of relying on U.S. taxpayers. She introduced the amendment on the same day that President Biden expressed the U.S.'s “ironclad commitment” to NATO at a NATO summit in Lithuania, where NATO leaders also declared that Ukraine’s future is in NATO

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    3 years ago

    If she’s not a Russian asset, she’s at least parroting their talking points.

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    I’m literally on the other side of the world to her and I can see that she’s either a blithering idiot, a Russian asset, or a blithering idiot being used by a Russian asset.

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    There is a rising GOP faction that wants a white ‘Christian’ authoritarian regime so badly that they will adopt one in Russia.

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    That’s so weird that an extremist Trump republican wants to do something that would be massively helpful to Russia

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    I was going to say that there isn’t a dumber elected official, but then I remembered Boebert. Man, if someone is going to be that dumb, they should at least be nice, and either way they shouldn’t be helping to run the country. Such a complete embarrassment.

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    So weird to suggest leaving NATO as the solution to other participants allegedly not contributing their fair share. I guess this is one of those “take the ball and go home” compromises I’ve heard about?