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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp that said, where does it stop? I mean, isn't that how the Second World War came about? The powers allowed concessions to Germany, a little bit of Austria, of Czechoslovakia. Till Poland?[/quote]

It stops when a NATO ally is attacked.

Remember when Trump was questioning the US being in NATO and the strength of our commitment to Article 5 (which says that NATO allies will militarily support each other is attacked)?

Remember when Trump supporters like Newt Gingrich were saying things like Estonia (a NATO ally) was "the suburbs of St Petersburg" and we shouldn't come to their defense and risk nuclear war if Russia attacked them?

From July 2016, during the election:

[quote]The Republican presidential nominee re-emphasized his isolationist instincts in an interview last week with the New York Times, when he refused to answer “yes” to the question of whether NATO members could “count on the United States to come to their military aid if they were attacked by Russia?”

Mr. Trump resorted to his favorite trope that many NATO states “are not making payments” and that “you can’t forget the bills.” That would be a useful argument if his point was merely to spur Europeans to spend more on defense.

But Mr. Trump seems to mean that any country that doesn’t meet the alliance’s defense-spending target of 2% of gross domestic product will forfeit NATO’s security guarantees. This is an invitation to Vladimir Putin to invade any NATO country not currently meeting its requirement—such as the Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania.[/quote]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-die-for-tallinn-1469459693

This is why I support Democrats for President. They will honor our commitments to our European allies. NATO has been a success which is why there hasn't been a major war in Europe in almost 80 years. [/quote]

Part of being an ally is being self sufficient if needed and not a ward.

Obama in his second term started being more forceful about freeriders in nato but a real concentrated American policy towards freeriding that has teeth has to be executed.

Middle American voters will not continue to underwrite european security by shouldering the vast majority of the burden.

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