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The United States is giving billions to Ukraine. Billions we don't have because we are $34 trillion in debt.
Donald Trump thinks maybe European countries should be paying their fair share.
Reasonable enough, yes?
Not at MSNBC.
The Daily Caller reports, "Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that former President Donald Trump is 'right' that European countries must pay the cost of the Russia-Ukraine War."
"Mitchell attempted to get the Polish foreign minister to criticize Trump for calling to withhold aid for Ukraine and allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade any European country that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that does not contribute financially," the Caller noted.
Their next exchange was classic:
'What would you say to Donald Trump, who actually said that he would encourage Putin to go into NATO countries who don’t pay their fair share,' Mitchell asked Wednesday.
'Well, we hope that’s just flowery rhetoric. He’s right that we should be spending more in Europe. Poland is spending well over 3% of GDP [gross domestic product] on defense and we’ve placed $50 billion worth of defense, orders in the United States,' Sikorski said.
Trump is "right" is definitely not what Mitchell was expecting to hear.
More from DC, "Trump said at a rally in North Carolina that he had threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine during a conversation with a NATO ally and would 'encourage' Putin to do as he wishes if NATO countries do not pay their fair share."
“‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?'” Trump claimed to have said. “‘No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills.'"
Trump's position is actually far more sane than Joe Biden's of just giving Ukraine as many billions of U.S. dollars as they desire, to fuel a war that many observers say has no chance at winning.
Why not protect the U.S. border instead? Or how about work on America's debt?
MSNBC probably thinks these suggestions are crazy too.