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This is not your father's Republican Party. An Economist/YouGov survey conducted July 1-3 finds that only 40% of Republicans think we should stay in NATO while 56% of Republicans think Donald Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin is a good thing for the United States.
12:31 PM - 6 Jul 2018
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)NATO is a realistic buffer to the Soviet Union for the Western Allies. That includes the USA. They are on the "front" we are in the rear of the battlefield. Regardless, NATO works to protect us too.
braddy
(3,585 posts)Divisions and 6.4 million active troops and 8.3 million Reserves, 69,000 tanks, divisions of bridge building units, and more than 11,000 aircraft.
I support NATO but let's not go overboard with fearing Russia, NATO needs backbone more than anything, NATO is deliberately making themselves weak and unprepared.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/03/27/how-scary-is-putins-russia-compared-to-the-soviet-union-this-chart-has-some-answers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a23d5986b3d9
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)RUSSIA"R
braddy
(3,585 posts)outgunned with most of the Warsaw pact aiming at it, even countries like Sweden are rearming and starting the draft, they fear that the European NATO countries have gone soft on paying the cost of maintaining their militaries and confronting Russia. Russia can only nibble at the little counties with bluff and guff and limited engagement, they cannot defeat NATO on paper.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)russia swayed our elections...that's more than the fragile flower you portray of russiar. Poor russiar.
braddy
(3,585 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)braddy
(3,585 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Have a good week.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)They don't think independently.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Russian bots hard at work.
spanone
(135,816 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Sophia4
(3,515 posts)JDC
(10,125 posts)Wonder what the numbers would be? These people are the biggest suckers on the planet.
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)we'll never curb the military budget even if they do zero. Sacred cow.
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)If they were told tomorrow to support NATO then they would quickly change their minds.
These people have no independent thought. None.
They don't read, anything, are incurious, and mostly ignorant (as in not having been exposed to information) have never travelled abroad, nor want to.
They are who we thought they were.
We have always known these types were among us. We are just fucking amazed that we have so many. Not a majority mind you, but near enough of one third of us. And they are so loud. Proudly ignorant, loudly ignorant.
I fucking despise these people.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I alternate between pity and contempt.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,402 posts)If, tomorrow, Trump tells them that puppies are bad, they'll agree with him and start kicking puppies (see also: Immigrants, legal or otherwise).