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Intelligence Chair Crawford: "It's in our interest to revisit the construct of NATO and say, 'How does this work for us?' Because when we need help from NATO, by and large they aren't there. Whereas when they need our help, we're there to do the heavy lifting, and I think POTUS has recognized that."

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Can we knock this ridiculous narrative out, please? It's all they've got and we've seen it coming ten miles away. NATO exists to come to the DEFENSE of another member who was attacked (like on 9/11). Not to HELP in the attack on another country. FFS. This is craven chaos.

These constant lies are so tiring. The only country that ever benefited from NATO's Article 5 is the United States. What the Trump Regime does not seem to grasp is that NATO never has and never should assist a member that chooses to launch an illegal war of aggression.

NATO was designed for DEFENSE but these tragic mfers keep trying to spin the shit to cover for trump's fuckup! Trump has demanded that these eunuchs get out there and defend him as if their lives depended on it and they're complying like the ass lickers they are! 👅💩

Is he thick or is he just a liar. NATO is a defence treaty. The only time it has been invoked was by the USA, and NATO responded. He is repeating the gibberish of his orange emperor in the hope of more grift.

WTF? He can’t remember 15-years ago when NATO came to our defense after 911? When have any of the other NATO members invoked Article. 5? They are either ridiculously stupid or heinous liars.

Everyone associated with this regime lies all the time. We are the ONLY country to ever ask for NATO’s assistance and they stepped up. Many of our allies’ soldiers died in the war Bush led after 9/11. They fulfilled the mission. NATO is not to bail us out of stupid wars we let a felon start!

Article 5 has been invoked only once, By the USA. The NATO nations answered the call expending blood & treasure in Afghanistan and Iraq. Germany, Denmark, the UK, France, Poland, and even Ukraine (who are not a NATO member because of US Intransigence) suffered deaths. Cop on to yourselves.

“Cough, cough, 9-11 enters the chatroom”. They want to change the NATO construct so that if any NATO member performs a unilateral, unprovoked attack on another nation, that NATO will be required to jump in and assist? That would not go well for us in the long run.

This person has zero understanding of NATO, history, reciprocal agreements, or international relations. And has no interest in any of it. He just wants to please his fascist, orange overlord. As does the interviewer.

The terrorist organization aka USA government is dumber than a bag of bricks. Maybe when the citizens get their country back the education system should include a class for old stupid fucks that don't know shit about anything. Just an idea...

He is just resonating Trump's transactional view of everything. Next he will want NATO to pay for the Jeffery Epstein memorial ballroom.

So we should jump on the war ship and kill children with US? Just bcs You forgot what decency is? You did this only out of greed. Not for the people of US but for egoistic causes and sucking up to Bibi. World is not stupid. We see what You do. Leave NATO instead of crying every god damn month

Post 911 and YOUR War on Terror you GOP whining bitches. ALL THE US ALLIES WERE THERE FOR YOU UNDER ARTICLE 5. WE FUCKING LOST PEOPLE TOO. AS DID THE DUTCH. FUCK YOU GOP AMERICA. 🖕🖕 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Article 5 has only been invoked once - by us after 9/11. Are they saying NATO never showed up and never lost any servicemembers? That they've never put themselves on the line as a peacekeeping force? I sailed with the NATO fleet in Europe, doing exercises 45 years ago. They were exemplary.

Incredible, and pathetic, that the party officials are just as ill-informed and respond with the same ridiculous rhetoric that you see from any Trumper on the street. Lends credence to the claim “they’ll hire anybody!”🤨

Crawford pretends not to realize we are in a real but undeclared cold was with Russia, against a sick dictator who is TELLING Trump to weaken NATO to clear the path for Putin to conquer it. Poland and Germany are two traditional enemies of Russia that Putin wants badly. We're abandoning NATO 4 Vlad.

There’s only one time article 5 has ever been enacted and that was in support of defending the United States. There has to be another word besides Kakistocracy to represent this admin. Because “least qualified” doesn’t take into consideration their desire to destroy every U.S. institution.

and understand that #NATO is a defensive alliance; it is not there to support any old expeditionary warfare. esp. if they weren't consulted on the attacks in the first place... ...I suspect you spotted that already, tho.

Putin's greatest wish is to break up NATO, his investment in trump has paid off beyond his wildest dreams! Republicans in Congress now joining trump in the "NATO" is bad propaganda.

What an ignorant tool. NATO is defensive in nature. It's not there to support members ill-judged military adventures, especially not after they're launched without consultation. You'd think the "intelligence chair" would know who NATO jumped in to help after 9/11.

Cult behavior. The deprogramming will have to be comprehensive. It's exhausting to watch. What will it look like when the pendulum finally swings the other way. If MAGA was in essence, a response to a Black man being elected president, I'm actually excited to see its counterspell.

GQP maggots go in front of the camera they open their mouth lies fall out like water. They open their mouth. Stupidity falls out like water. I wanna know how much money these fucking lunatics are making because you know they’re doing that for every fucking dime they can possibly get.

NATO is a defensive agreement. You get attacked, other NATO members come to your aid. It is not for when you fuck up an attack and want your allies to bail you out. Ironically it was the US who made sure that language was in the treaty.

How many times was Article 5 used? And who used it? And who showed up for that moment… these stupid fucken RW American losers need to shut the entire fuck up. Their own nonsense for decades sewed the seeds that became the moment where the articles had to be actioned… and NATO showed up… fuck off

They are just a bunch of liars and traitors. Let me know when they get fired. For now, it does not really matter what they say - these are lies.

Honestly America, just do one. You colonise almost the entire globe with *YOUR* bases for *YOUR* security, not ours. You make us proxy targets for you, just as the entire middle east just found out. I live in the UK a stone's throw from *YOUR* nukes. Our soldiers have died for *YOUR* security.

What the fuck don’t these morons get about Article 5 of the NATO CHARTER? If one of the NATO countries is attacked we come to help. It says nothing about when someone starts an unprovoked attack without consulting the NATO PARTNERS! The obtuseness of these 🤡 is infuriating!

Sigh. NATO is a DEFENSIVE alliance. The ONLY TIME Article 5 has been invoked was BY THE USA after 9/11 attacks. NATO members responded by sending their young men and women to die in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan. Those Allied efforts have been mocked by the President and his Cabinet.

These backstabbing losers keep forgetting when NATO showed up to fight for them after 9/11 and joined the mission to Afghanistan. We won't show up to help next time though since you insist on spitting in our faces and refuse to help us except when we pay you.

Also, again, NATO is a *defense* pact, not an aggression pact, so members are under no obligation to join any illegal regime change wars you start for no good reason. Seems Europe should be re-evaluating why we spend any resources at all on this alliance that clearly only benefits Americans.

The only time in the history of NATO Article 5 was invoked by US and NATO responded. So fuck off with the losing trump policy of isolationism. The world is passing by America.

The good news is that Putin is too weak to attack any of his European neighbors successfully at this point. The Russian army is too depleted by the Ukraine invasion and its aftermath.

Ignorance is not bliss. The only time their help was required — 9/11 — NATO was right there. NATO soldiers gave their lives in our war over 9/11. Crawford is lying. It’s bad.

NATO simply doesn't support wars of aggression. It's a defensive alliance through which the U.S. has exerted influence and reaped economic benefits. I hope that will soon come to an end. Europe can only become strong without the U.S.

There is a freaking Broadway musical about the Canadian town of Gander, Newfoundland and what they did for Americans after 9/11 called Come From Away. And NATO answered the call when they invoked Article 5 in response to those attacks. Canadians died defending the United States.

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Canada has the Highway of Heroes. After the repatriated soldiers are placed in the hearses they travel along a stretch of highway lined with Canadians holding flags, some saluting the soldiers as they and their families went by. There is even a song that makes me cry every time.

I love that musical (I’ve seen it twice); the documentary too. So incredibly heartwarming to remember when nations came to our aid in the wake of 9/11 - both before and after the only NATO Article 5 invocation by the US. And not just NATO allies; Ukraine and many other countries supported the US.

Bastard. We took your in aircraft when you closed your airspace. Fed and housed passengers. We went to war with you. We gave up over 150 souls doing it. Many more still suffer from PTSD. And somehow "we weren't there"? No worries. We never will be again.

It's more likely that POTUS recognized that "us" actually means "nationalist authoritarians" -- they spurred NATO's creation and are most threatened from its continued strength

Unintelligent Chair Crawford Article 5 of the NATO agreement was invoked ONCE after the 9/11 attacks in defense of the United States

Why doesn't the #Trump Admin / #MAGA just leave #NATO? They complain about this issue quite often and still, the #USA is a member of that organization. Or is Trump just a social media paper tiger roaring to get attention and possible more media? The world has lost respect in the #US, so why not?

The US does not want to be in NATO. Lucky we now have Finland and Sweden and think Ukraine would be a great asset..and we alao need to start avoiding US equipment. Its sad but we need to face facts

How absolutely void of a brain are these people. Where was he on 9/11? Cannot wait until all these people are in jail for their treasonous acts. Hopefully, the Democrats are going to show up this time to vote!

NATO invoked Article 5 (collective defense) exactly once in history, after 9/11, to help the US. European NATO allies have been the ones showing up. The argument falls apart on its own merits. But, Republicans hate reality so they will just continue their crusade against it until they are stopped 🤷‍♀️

NATO was never supposed to be a tool of arbitrary and imperial US adventurism - just another to the pile of patently false premises that drive the MAGA worldview

I know words don't mean jack to these people but it's called a "treaty" organization because there's a treaty that doesn't have articles for joining a war of offense especially without prior consultation. It's a defense organization, not a bully gang and respectable members won't let it become one.

But those troops are there to support the US, not the EU. They are stationed in Europe so that the US can respond quickly to international issues without having to travel halfway across the world to do so. In addition, many Middle Eastern nations now want the US out, so they are the closest.

Utter horseshit The only time Article 5 was invoked was after the twin towers when the US was attacked and Europe came to help NATO is a defence pact, "attack one, attack all". Not where one country can arbitrarily go to war and then ask for help when they start losing to drones and speedboats.

They have lied and successfully blamed Democrats for everything they did to the American people the past 50 years Everyone knows the truth now when it’s too late to stop Good luck, help is here 🔥

They act like every country is a middle school boy, and the lead bully is pissed the other kids didn’t show up behind the dumpsters to beat up someone who looked at the bully wrong. There are no adults in this admin. And I wish they’d quit demonstrating why the USA can never, ever be trusted again.

This reporting is complete misinformation that they are feeding everyone. NATO is there for defense, not to help when we attack somebody else and without even informing them. He's going to try to pull us out of NATO. I don't think he can do that without Congress.

The narrative they're pushing is soo exhausting... And of course any country with selfrespect and some kind of sense of diplomacy, is gonna follow a 'Leroy Jenkins' like assault without a plan.

I don’t know what’s at play or what’s worse…actually stupidity or ass kissing pretend stupidity. Either way, they have to go. This is the intelligence chair, proving again why we’re the laughingstock of the world.

But they can lie about it cause Fox and their imitators will never call them out on it, and we let them do it without protest, pushback, or debunking. Half the country now believes that NATO never did anything for us and just took our money.

Someone needs to read the Truman doctrine. He's also wrong in that European nations have invested heavily in the US defence sector, the benefits have flown back to the US. And then who's the only country who had article 5 triggered? The rest of NATO paid in blood to defend the US.