Demented Donald moves forward with plan to wreck key US alliances

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Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops

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.

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We shouldn't have troops there at all. Our military spending is horribly bloated and it isn't our job to be the world's police.

I think that can be a rational argument. But it's also irrelevant.

Donnie Dumbster isn't stakjng out a debate position. He is treating long-standing military alliances and ratified treaties as an excuse for extortion.

Donnies approach to NATO and other alliances has the same relationship to rational debate that a mugging does to addressing wealth inequality.