US Congress Locks in Commitment to Europe and NATO with $900B Defense Bill

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/66454

by MeteorEnvy

5 comments

  1. You cannot trust them as long as the orange megalomaniac is in the WH.

  2. Doesn’t matter what the bill says , as long as Trump is in charge Europe should still prepare to be able to be able to defend themselves effectively. Despite this I have to admit that this is good news at least

  3. Those thinking the US was ever going to abandon Europe have been greatly exaggerated in their feelings. If the US truly wanted to abandon Europe, it wouldn’t have tried to fix them for nearly 4 decades over their defense spending and economic deals with Russia.

  4. “The bipartisan NDAA backs Ukraine and introduces safeguards to prevent a sudden withdrawal from NATO. Despite being entirely at odds with Trump’s stance on Europe, it passed 77-20.”

    – This is actually significant because it show Congress is heavily opposed to Trump’s stance, is making laws to restrict his ability to reduce U.S. support for NATO and Ukraine. Congress hasn’t had the backbone to move against Trump earlier but we have seen other indications beyond this that they are finally waking up and doing more.

    “The bill allocates $400 million to Ukraine in each of the next two years under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (which buys weapons for Ukraine from US companies.)

    The bill authorizes a sixth year of the Baltic Security Initiative – a US-funded program focused primarily on training Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian troops and deterring Russian aggression – despite a number of reports that Trump was planning to shelve it.

    Perhaps even more significantly, the bill prevents the US government from reducing the number of US troops in Europe to less than 76,000”.

    – with those numbers in congress supporting the above it’s a very strong message to Trump that Congress will move against him if he attempts to dilute U.S. support.

  5. Did anybody notice that the senate vote was 77-20 for the bill (against Trump)? That’s is significant. Donald has opposition.

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