
Paul Elgin
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Paul Elgin
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This is my burner account because I’m someone. Sorta. My tweets have been liked by Bill Ackman, Naval Ravikant, Walter Russell Mead and Jay Bhattacharya.


Al Jazeera reports that the downed F-15E WSO has been rescued by US forces.



Sorry Jonah. I actually sat in the room for the first half of the movie. For 24 polite years, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama diplomatically asked NATO members to increase defense spending. For 24 years, it was one excuse after another, all focused in Western Europe on how they wish they could spend more, but their social welfare spending priorities wouldn’t let them. In other words, you the US will spend on defense and protect us. Along comes rude Donald Trump. Finally, someone made clear that if Europe kept freeloading the US was done. It took a bill in the China shop to move Europe. Diplomacy failed. Trump prevailed. That’s reality whether you or I like it. NATO self-withered after 75 years. If Spain, England, Italy and France won’t spend what’s necessary to have a real military, it’s time for something new.
































@JonahDispatch If its an alliance then Trump isn't "asking for help". He is expecting them to do what they had agreed to and already cashed checks to do.
