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[[President Donald Trump]] was highly critical of how the United States has been saddled with the bulk of the cost throughout its history while [[Europe]] has not paid its agreed upon mandated share of defense costs. Meanwhile, NATO may have misled [[Ukraine]] into thinking NATO would help defend it, when NATO would not.

[[President Donald Trump]] was highly critical of how the United States has been saddled with the bulk of the cost throughout its history while [[Europe]] has not paid its agreed upon mandated share of defense costs. Meanwhile, NATO may have misled [[Ukraine]] into thinking NATO would help defend it, when NATO would not.

NATO was never intended to be "the world's policeman, nor is it an enforcement arm or extension of the [[United Nations]].

As the ''[[New York Times]]'' wrote back in 1998, "Ben & Jerry's is against expanding NATO. So is [[Phyllis Schlafly]], the arch-conservative activist. ... 'It would obligate us to go to war to defend the borders in Eastern Europe,' said Mrs. Schlafly, who founded the 80,000-member Eagle Forum. 'We don't think that's an [[American]] responsibility. We see this as one [[Bosnia]] after another.'<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/21/world/bedfellows-of-every-stripe-in-nato-fray.html</ref>  NATO was never intended to be "the world's policeman," nor is it an enforcement arm or extension of the [[United Nations]].

NATO's official website states its political motive under [[Orwellian]] language: "NATO promotes democratic values and enables members to consult and cooperate on defence and security-related issues to solve problems, build trust and, in the long run, prevent conflict."<ref>https://www.nato.int/nato-welcome/index.html Retrieved August 7, 2019.</ref>  Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has waged two wars of aggression, one against [[Serbia]] to carve out the state of [[Kosovo]], and another in [[Libya]] which resulted in chaos and the return of the slave trade in Black Africans.  Its current secretary is [[Jens Stoltenberg]] of [[Norway]].  

NATO's official website states its political motive under [[Orwellian]] language: "NATO promotes democratic values and enables members to consult and cooperate on defence and security-related issues to solve problems, build trust and, in the long run, prevent conflict."<ref>https://www.nato.int/nato-welcome/index.html Retrieved August 7, 2019.</ref>  Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has waged two wars of aggression, one against [[Serbia]] to carve out the state of [[Kosovo]], and another in [[Libya]] which resulted in chaos and the return of the slave trade in Black Africans.  Its current secretary is [[Jens Stoltenberg]] of [[Norway]].