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1. I’m fascinated by this Bloomberg report that the Trump administration is contemplating “Cost plus 50,” or having countries like Germany pay the salaries of American troops, in return for their being stationed abroad: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2. One charge in the Declaration of Independence was that King George III was "transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries.” Specifically, he was paying for soldiers from …. Germany. This was considered a cause for revolution.
3. Obama also pressed NATO members to shoulder a greater burden of the costs, precisely as Trump has done. Hiring out American troops to other nations, as these plans effectively propose to do, is something else entirely.
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