Donald Trump's Nato comments labelled ‘appalling and unhinged’

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Donald Trump's Nato comments labelled ‘appalling and unhinged’
bbc.com

And so it begins. Nine months still to go before the next US presidential election and already the Republican party favourite and former President Donald Trump is sending eyes rolling skywards with his seemingly outlandish statements.

And yet they will delight many of his supporters.

Suggesting at a rally in South Carolina that he would "encourage" aggressors (for example Russia) "to do whatever the hell they want" with Nato countries that fail to pay their dues has prompted an immediate slap down from the White House. A spokesman called the comment "appalling and unhinged", saying it was "encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes".

Nato Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has also responded forcefully, saying: "Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk."

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It's Nato according to the BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/grammar-spelling-punctuation

our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms, where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Aids, Farc, Eta, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec)

If you don't like this, then start referring to the BBC as bubbakuh, so they'll have to change the spelling to Bbc.

Well, the Bbc is on their own on that, because I've never seen it done that way elsewhere, including the NATO website. They're unhinged.