Source:Forbes Magazine– left to right: U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (Christian Nationalist, Georgia) & U.S. Representative Gerald Connolly (Democrat, Virginia) on the House floor, together.

Source:The New Democrat

“During NDAA debates on the House floor prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) put forward a NATO-based amendment which led to debate with Democrats.”

From Forbes Magazine

Just to give you a little background on Marjorie Taylor Greene, before I actually give her credit, for something positive: (and then spend weeks getting professional help for doing that)

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is a self-described Christian Nationalist. What does that mean? She approaches her politics with a fundamentalist-Protestant, nationalistic point of view, that has nothing to do with the U.S. Constitution or even Republicanism. She has more in common ideologically with Vladimir Putin and the Russian Nationalists, then she could ever possibly have in common with the Barry Goldwater’s, Ronald Reagan’s, and the other great Conservative Republicans in America.

Having said all of that, she makes a good point about NATO and Europe. I think her motives are bad and probably couldn’t give a damn, even if she tried, if America did pull out of NATO and Russia took over not just Ukraine, but the rest of Slavia and Europe at some point.

But the fact is, Europe doesn’t spend enough money on its own defense, America is buried in debt, and Europe is dependent on American taxpayers for its national defense and probably economic security as well. Instead of being the great independent states that Europe should be, with all the great, developed, democratic societies that they have.

I think the solution here is real simple: convince the European Union on the importance of having free, independent, secure and free states, that aren’t reliant on the generosity of taxpayers from other countries, to pay for their own national security. Not to unilaterally gut an important program that vital for the security of Ukraine and the rest of Europe.