{"id":30750,"date":"2018-07-05T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30750"},"modified":"2018-07-05T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T00:56:08","slug":"trump-is-right-u-s-cant-be-worlds-piggy-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30750","title":{"rendered":"Trump is right: U.S. can’t be world’s piggy bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump is going to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting next week with a critical message.<\/p>\n

The United States really cannot afford to be the “world’s piggy bank,” and that NATO’s other member nations need to shoulder a larger burden of their mutual defense agreement.<\/p>\n

I don’t want the United States to pull out of NATO. Nor do I want there to be continued tension between the United States and the rest of the alliance.<\/p>\n

But the president happens to make a valuable point about NATO and the burden that all its member nations need to shoulder.<\/p>\n

Trump has sought to pressure NATO nations to increase their share of the cost of the alliance. Indeed, many of the wealthier nations in NATO — Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom come to mind — are able to shoulder more of the financial load.<\/p>\n

I merely want the president to cease with the bellicose rhetoric and the threats — veiled and outright — of punishing our allies if they don’t do as he wishes.<\/p>\n

The bottom line, though, suggests to me that the president is correct to insist on greater cost-sharing among the allies of this important mutual defense organization.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump is going to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting next week with a critical message. The United States really cannot afford to be the “world’s piggy bank,” and that NATO’s other member nations need to shoulder a larger burden of their mutual defense agreement. I don’t want the United States to … Continue reading Trump is right: U.S. can’t be world’s piggy bank<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,3219,7128],"class_list":["post-30750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-nato","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30752,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750\/revisions\/30752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}