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2018-07-21 Europe

SECDEF Mattis Says NATO Summit ‘One of the Most Productive' He Has Ever Attended

[Breitbart] Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told members of Congress in a private meeting this week that the recent NATO summit was "one of the most productive" he has ever attended.
The comment came during a breakfast on Wednesday with a group of Republican and Democrat members of Congress, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White, when asked if that was in line with his thinking, responded, "Definitely."

The private comments contradict how the NATO summit has been broadly portrayed in the mainstream news media. Reports portrayed Trump as having accomplished little other than upsetting allies and weakening the military alliance.

"NATO is still reeling from the president’s blunt-force attack on the decades-old military alliance," Vanity Fair reported a day after it ended.

NBC News reported that Pentagon leadership had directed military leaders to do "damage control" just hours after Trump left Brussels, which Mattis immediately dismissed as "fiction."

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Same here!

Posted by newc 2018-07-21 00:35|| 2018-07-21 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 NBC News reported that Pentagon leadership had directed military leaders to do "damage control" just hours after Trump left Brussels, which Mattis immediately dismissed as "fiction."

"We just gave them a 'Bad Cop (Trump), and worst cop (me)'."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-21 04:25|| 2018-07-21 04:25|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Amazing how 'productive' people can be when they think you're about to stop writing the checks...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-07-21 05:31|| 2018-07-21 05:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Still, I'd have liked some pictures of DoS weenies crying like when Reagan went to Reykjavik...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-07-21 07:13|| 2018-07-21 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump asks members to cough up their share for their own defense and the MSM goes nuts.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-21 08:26|| 2018-07-21 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 I bet Mattis is happy as hell to have a leader that not only doesn't take shit from people, but is willing to back up his threats.

"I didn't come with artillery, but I'm pleading with you with tears in my eyes. If you mess with me we'll kill you all."

Posted by DarthVader 2018-07-21 08:27|| 2018-07-21 08:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I get all my Authentic Geo-Political News™ from Vanity Fair too

Posted by Frank G 2018-07-21 09:22|| 2018-07-21 09:22|| Front Page Top

#8 If Mattis were to announce the sun will explode in three days, I'd be frantically searching for my parka, balaclava, and snowshoes.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-21 09:26|| 2018-07-21 09:26|| Front Page Top

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