NATO: Trudeau Will Have to Put Canada’s Military Where His Mouth Is
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By Nino Pagliccia
Global Research
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At the NATO meeting going on in Brussels (July 11-12), Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries to outsmart the US master of deception, Donald Trump, with old-fashioned Canadian rhetoric. [1] But no such luck for Canada.
Trump appears to up the antes for the NATO members by asking to increase their contributions to 4% of GDP from just asking to fulfill their current commitment of paying 2%. This seems to be the classic bargain; ask for double in order to settle for half.
Trudeau basically replies, forget the money; let’s focus on the work NATO has to do better. And he goes on suggesting
“to promote the peace, security, and strength of our true democracies and those democratic ...