So, Donnie, how did you get the idea to remove Article 5 from your NATO speech?

Who made you do that? Was it...PUTIN?

http://www.toledoblade.com/MikeSigov/2017/06/08/Mike-Sigov-analysis-Megyn-Kelly-got-truth-out-of-Vladimir-Putin.html

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Article 5 declares that a military attack against any one or more of the alliance’s members will be considered by the rest as an attack against them.

It is precisely Article 5 that has kept Mr. Putin’s revanchist attempts at expanding Russia’s western and other borders within those of the former Soviet Union. So far his land grab has been limited to parts of Ukraine and Georgia, budding democracies that are not NATO members.

Now that NATO’s mightiest member has all but given up its commitment to Article 5, Mr. Putin looks forward to the alliance’s disintegration. He would then be free to expand his military adventurism into some of NATO’s smaller member countries that formerly were part of the Soviet Union — the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Despite Mr. Trump’s statements to the contrary, it is not so much whether or not the NATO countries pay their voluntary “fair” share of 2 percent of their respective gross domestic products into the alliance’s budget that really matters.

What matters far more is that these countries allow U.S. military bases on their territories and otherwise serve the U.S. national security interest by helping keep the unpredictable and unfriendly Russia in check militarily — an ocean away from the U.S. borders.

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