โPentagon Pete,โ as the Daily Beast calls him, put on his โwar paint,โ as, again, The Beast describes him when he goes to the NATO headquarters (actually, from force of habit he picked up when he was on camera at CNN, he simply powdered his nose with his personal supply of makeup) he shook the Europeans down out of 3% more of their gross national product (GNP)! Before the press appearance, he must have put the squeeze on the NATO secretary-general so hard that Mark Rutte, a Dutch politician who previously served as prime minister of the Netherlands for more than a decade, had to name all the NATO members who should increase their defense budget to 5% of their national income โ perhaps Rutteโs adding the name of the U.S. in the list was a gentle European touch that not only the Europeans but also the Americans would also be a โRussian o
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