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NCDem47

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5. If NATO is about protecting democracy and acting as a deterrent against Russian agression...

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Mon Aug 18, 2025, 09:22 AM

Aug 2025

Trump is literally going against its core mission.

It's gross and any person with two brain cells can see he's advocating for the very entity that that NATO was created to keep in check.

I know its not taking the long view, but geeze....European countries should kick US miltary bases out if this is the game Tump plays (and I relaize the irony that this is EXACTLY what Putin wants).

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