A Sliver of Responsible Action
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On July 10th, 2018 the Senate voted 96 to 2 in favor of re-affirming the United States commitment to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). This is following meetings of Trump with our NATO allies, where he berates them time and again. He claims that the Germans are under Russian control because they buy lots of natural gas from them. This is just part of his unrelenting attack on Angela Merkel. Whether it is part of Trump’s misogynistic nature or just his inability to deal with strong women, but his attacks on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May are almost as withering as his attacks on Merkel. Even going as far as to actively undermine her position within her own party and telling The Sun that her opponent would make a good Prime Minister. Trump publicly announces that he told Theresa May how to handle Brexit, but she chose to ignore his advice.
I will give the core part of the wording. Senator Jack Reed (Dem. – RI) said, ” No one should ever doubt the United States’ resolve in meeting its commitments to the mutual defense of the NATO alliance,” Reed said. “Unfortunately, this motion has become necessary because some of our closest allies have come to question the US commitment to collective self-defense. President Trump has at times called the alliance ‘obsolete.’ Our allies are starting to wonder whether they can rely on the United States to come to their defense in a crisis.” This is a non-binding motion. It brings out two things that I’ve classified as a sliver. First is that as partisan as this congress and senate have been, for them to agree on anything is mind-blowing. The other thing is how fast they came to that consensus. This is as close to censuring Donald Trump as this Senate has done.
