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re: NATO chief - the President of the USA has a 12 second attention span

Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:01 pm to
Posted by bencoleman
RIP 7/19
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:01 pm to
Shitty article, shitty thread and even shittier OP.
Posted by stat19
Member since Feb 2011
29350 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:07 pm to
Sounds to me like the NATO commander is too narrow-minded and dense to effectively explain in a succinct manner the message he's trying to convey. Perhaps the NATO commander feels jilted because his message was deemed a lower priority than other issues at hand. After all, is NATO truly living up to founding intent or has its mission been usurped by a greater bureaucracy, like the UN? Then again, I wouldn't expect a narrow-minded, single focus guy, like yourself, to understand that.
Posted by Dale51
Member since Oct 2016
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Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:16 pm to
Keep melting.
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
36335 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:19 pm to
This is indisputable proof that he's a full blooded American and couldn't possibly be associated with Russia. They can focus on a case of vodka for days straight.
This post was edited on 5/20/17 at 5:22 pm
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
36335 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:20 pm to
quote:

Barron's conception?


Oh, projection, my favorite.
Posted by rsbd
banks of the Mississippi
Member since Jan 2007
23449 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:22 pm to
If the NATO Chief would say anything that remotely makes sence Trump may listen..
Posted by goatmilker
Castle Anthrax
Member since Feb 2009
76521 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 5:23 pm to
(A NATO spokesman later denied this, saying "the Secretary-General never said this and it does not represent his views.")

Such anecdotes have shaped how Europe’s anxious leaders are preparing for Trump’s trip this week


Follow the money euro.
Posted by braindeadboxer
Utopia
Member since Nov 2011
8742 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 6:02 pm to
The European NATO countries need to shut the frick up and remember they will always be our bitches. I hope Trump drags his nuts across the eurotrashes faces every chance he gets.
Posted by Big12fan
Dallas
Member since Nov 2011
5340 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 6:06 pm to
The NATO chief obviously exaggerated.
Posted by CoachDon
Louisville
Member since Sep 2014
12409 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 6:10 pm to
NATO is as relevant as most of you poor little leftists posting. That is...not

Posted by chity
Chicago, Il
Member since Dec 2008
6797 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 6:11 pm to
Stoltenberg was in awe. His attention span is 7 seconds, 7.5 tops.
Posted by Adam Banks
District 5
Member since Sep 2009
37807 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 6:34 pm to
quote:

“The president of the United States has a 12-second attention span,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a former senior official in April after meeting Trump in the Oval Office.



So the article quotes the sec general as saying this even though its third hand via anonymous source


quote:

Not only that, this person told me, the president seemed unprepared and ill-informed, turning the conversation to North Korea and apparently unaware that NATO is not a part of the ongoing North Korea saga. (A NATO spokesman later denied this, saying "the Secretary-General never said this and it does not represent his views.")



They go to the source who denies it


Yet the article is still written and you give it credibility
Posted by LSUKNUT
Naples, Florida
Member since Jun 2007
2345 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 6:41 pm to
quote:

Yet the article is still written and you give it credibility


This is now the media norm - Just plant a seed. Post a headline knowing very few will read the real content of the story. Headline goes viral on social media and the media has done exactly what they set out to do - damage.
Posted by DrunkerThanThou
Unfortunately Mississippi
Member since Feb 2013
2846 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 6:56 pm to
So far as I'm concerned the only NATO nations whose opinion matters is any country whose met their defense spending obligation since the end of the Cold War. If they haven't they can stfu
Posted by russpot
alexandria
Member since Jul 2007
425 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 7:35 pm to
you are a bum...traitor
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
167550 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 7:40 pm to
Fake. This is llike the 'source' that said Trump has to have bright pictures in his Presidential Briefing and his name bright so he reads, with crayons and a coloring book afterwards.
Posted by Champagne
Sabine Free State.
Member since Oct 2007
55329 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 7:58 pm to
I hope that we are all smart enough to see through this Euro-Charade.

The NATO nations don't like any POTUS that's going to make them pay the money they are obligated to pay for their own self-defense. They prefer it when the USA lets them spend as little as possible for their own defense. That way, the US taxpayers pay more to take up the slack and the NATO members can use the money saved for social welfare programs at home.

Posted by corneredbeast
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Member since Sep 2008
2302 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:40 pm to
shite, that's about 10 seconds more than John would get from me. He should be grateful and bend the knee.
Posted by tjohn deaux
GA
Member since Feb 2007
10437 posts
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:33 pm to
quote:

NATO Chief,


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