Foreign Pool Report # 5

quotes from President Trump on Nato and the help US seeks from allies

“Well, we don't need too much help, and we don't need any help actually. In fact, we just put out a notice I was watching over the last couple of weeks, and all of our NATO allies were very much in favor of what we did. They thought it was very important. We were just discussing it actually very important that we take out the nuclear threat from Iran, and we've done that very strongly, very powerfully. We've wiped out their navy, wiped out their military of every aspect. Their Air Force is now decimated. They have no air force, no navy, they have no radar. Their radar is entirely gone. Their anti aircraft machinery is gone. Everything is gone. Their leaders are gone. I guess one of the top person was they say. A lot of people say their actual top was killed yesterday, along with somebody else that who was responsible for the killing, the man that was responsible for the killing of 32,000 people over the last two weeks, he was in charge of the killing of protesters. It's an evil group. I mean, they've killed much more than 32,000 people. And the man who was responsible for that was also killed yesterday.”

“So I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake. And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So this is a, this was a great test, because we don't need them, but they should have been there. The other thing is, and I think, you know, very important, we didn't have to be there for Ukraine.”

On Coaltion of willing

“The Middle East has been great. UAE has been absolutely great. Saudi Arabia has been terrific. Bahrain has been very good. The Middle Eastern countries have been very strong in their support. And of course, Israel has been our partner. Israel's been very, very strong along with us. It's been a very strong collaboration. I was, I was against Iran. Long before I even thought about Israel being against Iran. I was, if you look back many years ago, I talked about Iran was a big threat to this country, to this world of ours, and turned out to be I was, I was right that I said, you have to attack Carol. You have to attack them years ago, when they were acting up.”

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Diyar Kurda

Washington D.C. Bureau Chief

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