Comments by "Pantherparatrooper" (@506thparatrooper) on "Silicon Bites #87 - Trump's Freeze on US Foreign Aid is Gift to Tyrants, Aspiring Autocrats u0026 Thugs." video.

  1. Finnish President Stubb: Remember the conversation before the (US) election that the US would pull away from Ukraine and throw it under the bus. From what I am hearing from Trump, I don’t see that happening. I am actually quite encouraged by the commitment I see that still exists." Davos 22 JAN 2025 Jens Stoltenberg, former NATO Secretary General, The reality was back in 2017 some allies thought it was better to freeze the relationship with the United States to almost nothing and hope things would improve after the next elections. We did the exact opposite and actually sat down with President Trump and addressed the issues we had especially the issue of defense spending…the reality is things have really changed when we decided to meet the 2% of GDP on defense only three allies met that guideline and now it’s 23 allies." 23 JAN 2025 Davos Bloomberg interview
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  2. Jonathan's deafening silence about then Vice President Joe Biden's nihilistic and draconian boasting on TV about threatening to withhold funding if Ukraine did not shut down the investigation into Hunter's theft of millions of Ukrainian dollars in bribes. Also, Jonathan intentionally fails to mention that US aid is US taxpayer money. Jonathan puts a face on the worldwide sense of entitlement to American taxpayer dollars while America's ruling a $36 trillion national debt that explodes daily. It's injecting common sense into America's domestic and foreign policies. The interest payments on the US debt now exceeds the US defense budget. Even more cause for concern is a sense of entitlement to take US taxpayer money and use it to fund open criticism of American domestic and foreign policy! Free speech yes and yet not American taxpayer subsidized free speech.
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  3. Here's the criteria that Jonathan refuses to acknowledge: Secretary of State Rubio: "Ultimately under President Trump the top priority of the United States Department of State will be the United States. The direction he has given for our foreign policy is clear. Every dollar we spend, every program we fund, every policy we pursue must be justified by the answer to one of three questions. Does it make America safer? Does it make America stronger. Does it make America more prosperous?

Prudence in our foreign policy is not an abandonment of our values It is the common sense understanding that while we remain the wealthiest country on the earth our wealth has never been unlimited and our power has never been infinite." 15 JAN 2025 Imagine the trail of wreckage and worldwide carnage that will be created when the US national debt results in even more draconian cuts in US military and any other aid when the exploding US debt results in another downgrading of America's credit rating!
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