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Tucker Carlson: “We still had NATO in 2015. Like, what was the point?”

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Published December 13, 2022 | Video Starts at 54:31

So, like, we were totally for NATO. Why wouldn't you be? But that ended in August of 1991. I was on my honeymoon when the Soviet Union collapsed. But We still had NATO in 2015. Like, what was the point? And I'd never thought about it in my life. And Trump's like, why are we funding NATO? And I thought that was a really interesting question. Okay, well, I don't know why? (54:31–54:35)

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Asserts that NATO's purpose was questionable in 2015 after the Soviet Union's collapse.

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