With no chance to get any of his agenda done that requires congressional consent, Bozo is turning his attention to implementing as much of his neo-isolationist outlook as he can without it.
Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops
The Duce is turning our troops into expensive mercenaries to encourage the host countries to refuse their presence.
The claim that he just wants to prod them into spending a bigger share of their own GDPs on their own defense is a figleaf for a policy of deliberate destabilization of the alliances.
For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren’t paying enough. Now he wants to get even, and then some.
Under White House direction, the administration is drawing up demands that Germany, Japan and eventually any other country hosting U.S. troops pay the full price of American soldiers deployed on their soil -- plus 50 percent or more for the privilege of hosting them, according to a dozen administration officials and people briefed on the matter.
In some cases, nations hosting American forces could be asked to pay five to six times as much as they do now under the “Cost Plus 50” formula.
Trump has championed the idea for months.
His insistence on it almost derailed recent talks with South Korea over the status of 28,000 U.S. troops in the country when he overruled his negotiators with a note to National Security Adviser John Bolton saying, “We want cost plus 50.”
He sees our troops in allied countries as there exclusively to protect faraway foreign lands in which we have no significant national security stake.
He sees a few thousand migrants in a caravan heading for the Mexican border as a national security emergency, but not a war against our allies in Europe or Asia, perhaps excepting only Israel.
Yes, this is absolutely Buchananism - apart from Bozo's strong support for Israel that mostly reflects the position of his Evangelical base and enables him to urge Jewish voters in America to come over to the GOP.
[I remember an old joke that Jews have the incomes of Episcopalians and the politics of Puerto Ricans.]
Was Buchanan paid off by the Russians, too?
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