joined by david swanson a political activist and author of war is alive thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so david president trouble wants nato allies to boost defense spending to four percent of judo g.d.p. the white house has confirmed that he has said this now is that a reasonable request considering even the u.s. doesn't spend this much it spends about three percent right now. i think it's sociopathic i think it's taken decades of propaganda to make that not seem crazy that it's spending our militarism on war preparations call it defense if you want to there's nothing offensive about it it's in danger in europe which gets more of the blowback while the united states fights more of the war is what a deal nato is for europe and that the economy of a country should determine its war spending that if you have more money you should have more wars is absolute insanity when when president trump says you spend more on weapons and more on nato or nato will scale back in nato will pull out of nato won't be here the the correct answer from europe is yes please thank you ge

poland and romania political activist david swanson though told us he thinks america's allies are showing great patients right now this last week in the face of trumps coercion. when president trump says you spend more on weapons and more on nato or nato will scale back and nato will pull out and nato won't be here that the correct answer from europe is yes thank you get out this is not a european invention this is a tool of us domination when donald trump was shocked by how many u.s. troops there were in germany the answer from germany and from nato and from the world should have been to get them out you can get them out of germany meanwhile now he knows that germany is still occupied by tens of thousands of u.s. troops for the past seventy years and claims that germany is is a servant controlled by russia i mean it don't try to make sense of it it doesn't make sense we've you know we've we've got to drop that enterprise was the guest mentioned the double troubles and took a swipe a burden over that major gas pipeline bound for germany they only say when germany makes a mess of oil and g

poland rumania political activist david swanson believes america's allies are showing great patience in the face of trump's course. when president trump says you spend more on weapons and more on nato or nato will scale back and nato will pull out and nato won't be here that the correct answer from europe is yes please thank you get out this is not a european invention this is a tool of u.s. domination when donald trump was shocked by how many u.s. troops there were in germany the answer from germany and from nato and from the world should have been get them out get them out of germany meanwhile now he knows that germany is still occupied by tens of thousands of u.s. troops for the past seventy years and claims that germany is is a servant controlled by russia it don't try to make sense of it it doesn't make sense we've you know we've we've got a drop that enterprise has or gas just mentioned there don't trouble also took a swipe at berlin over a major gas pipeline and for germany they really say when germany makes a mess of oil and gas deal with russia where you're supposed to be gu

political activist david swanson believes america's allies are showing great patience with the u.s. president. when president trump says you spend more on weapons and more on nato or nato will scale back and nato will pull out and nato won't be here that the correct answer from europe is yes please thank you get out this is not a european invention this is a tool of u.s. domination when donald trump was shocked by how many u.s. troops there were in germany the answer from germany and from nato and from the world should have been get them out get them out of germany meanwhile now he knows that germany is still occupied by tens of thousands of u.s. troops for the past seventy years and claims that germany is is a servant controlled by russia i mean it don't try to make sense of it it doesn't make sense we've you know we've we've got a drop that enterprise. just mentioned there don't trump also took a swipe at berlin over a major gas pipeline bond for germany. they. say when germany makes a mess of oil and gas deal with russia here you're supposed to be going against russia germany goe