JOE BIDEN/MILITARY/NATO: “One, we don’t need large standing — large standing armies abroad…
The other thing we should be doing is strengthening our alliances instead of embracing autocrats and dictators, like this president does, and poking our finger in the eye of our folks in NATO and — and — and the Far East, in Japan and those areas. We should be, in fact, embracing them, because we need them to help us deal with what the reality of the new world is, which is we’re going to be dealing with unstable countries, stateless terrorists, and they’re the people — we can’t do — we can’t be the world’s policemen. We need them with us.
So I think we need troops abroad, but in small numbers.”
-Joe Biden, “Former VP and Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Speaks at a Town Hall,” cnn.com, Nov. 11, 2019