transatlantic consensus the absence of strong american presidential leadership nato secretary general young stolzenberg rejects that conclusion it s just not possible to say that the united states look committed to make them because they re not the states is increasing their military contributions to nato he points to the latest example a new plan for the us to forward position heavy war fighting equipment at a police airbase trumps rough treatment of the alliance particularly his incessant demand that government spend more on defense has unnerved some europeans but this shake up some call it a shakedown by the u.s. president may have some benefits for nato i ve never seen so many editorials in american newspapers praising the eloise jamie shea spent almost four decades at nato as a spokesman but also an expert in what are called emerging security challenges and while dealing with russia and its hybrid worker tactics still top the list of
consequences. less maintenance was expensive war fighting equipment and republicans blame the president for the whole crisis. in his state of the union address president obama admitted the cuts were a bad idea. what the president fail tod mention was the sequester was his idea in the debt limit. the president re said congress needs to act before the deadline in the end of the month. he didn t mention sequester in the saturday address but that progress is made on deficit reduction. over the last few years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit 2.5 trillion and halfway to the goal of four trillion that economist say we need . now we need to finish the job. in the meantime congress is taking the weekend off balse