Sure bro, the US is the main character and the other countries are just NPCs
Ah. I think his brilliant plan is to replace Spain with Argentina.
Please stop sanewashing Rump’s ramblings, which are as numerous and wild and pointless as… meh, I’m all out of analogies.
What a turd
That’s not how NATO works. He can’t kick out somebody because he wants to.
NATO is agreement they all members are committed to defend each other in case of attack.
What he is actually doing is trying to divide and break NATO for his boss, putin.
From his actions so far I’m worried that if Russia attacks Europe, not only US won’t help, he will be actively sabotaging any operations.
No man, he’s trying to use this thing to divide Europe. US (not only Trump, even all previous presidents) don’t like EU, it’s a problem for the geopolitical monopoly of US. In this historical period, US need to reaffirm their economical superiority and want to call their vassals to the order. But EU is an obstacle to the US vassalage project, so they want to destroy it. They help anti-EU movements and at the same time the pro US parties. They impose double taxes and military expenditure (that is another tax). They pretend to EU trades only with US and US vassals by requiring economic taxes against China and support to Israel. They put at war the EU in Ukraine to stress it’s economy. And now, their just using another opportunity to stress the relationships between UE states, because now Italy, Hungary, Polony, and France (which is a soon-to-be right-wing US friend) need to take position about it, and are just looking forward to have another opportunity to divide EU.
they put at war the EU in Ukraine
Oh wow yeah, that must be why we’re seeing all the Bundeswehr and Armee de Terre and Wojsko Polskie and so on casualties in the war as they fight against Russia.
Except that’s utter bullshit and none of it is true. What the fuck are you smoking?
I don’t disagree that the current US regime is doing its best to undermine EU unity, but at the same time, don’t parrot idiotic and patently false Kremlin talking points.
sorry, maybe my English is not clear, I meant to say that the war in Ukraine has been looked forward by the US
Uh… no…?
Before the war started, Biden’s administration executed one of the most shrewd and incisive applications of intelligence sharing and publication to categorically disprove not only Putin’s smoke screen of “we’re totally not planning on invading Ukraine”, but also pretty much their entire casus belli.
After the war started - and before the current regime took power - there was a frustratingly long period of time where the US more or less hung Ukraine out to dry, and we only started seriously supporting them (in a similarly frustratingly piecemeal and nannying fashion) pretty far into the active phase of the war.
There’s an argument to be made that the Biden admin’s policy towards the war was aimed at bleeding Russia out; while I agree that there’s something to that with regard to the outcome of that policy, I honestly think Jake Sullivan (Biden’s NS advisor) being such a categorical limpdick with infuriatingly outdated worldviews, particularly with regard to Russia, was the primary driver of why things were so stingy and halting for so long. The attrition was much more an effect of that hemming and hawing, and much less the actual intent - at least, until towards the very end of the administration’s tenure… at which point leaning into the attrition strategy was blindingly fucking stupid, considering the incoming regime’s obvious predilections.
I don’t think it’s coherent to try to tie the Biden admin’s policy - frustrating, myopic, and stuttering as it was in many ways - to how the current regime is trying to orchestrate things, for several reasons:
- Orangeboi is still kind of obviously super Russophilic for deeply suspicious reasons
- Orangeboi et al have an extremely transactional, zero-sum, and kissingeresque worldview, and are demonstrably quite frustrated that Ukraine isn’t acquiescing to being treated like a nice little obedient pawn
- Orangeboi personally dislikes Zelenskyy, and orangeboi is notorious for letting petty personal disputes dictate his actions, and is further notorious for holding the most insanely stupid and spiteful grudges far beyond the bounds of logic and reasonability
- Orangeboi detests his political opponents, to the point where his regime is disassembling pretty much every single thing not associated directly with him, simply out of spite and animosity
The war in Ukraine didn’t start during the Biden administration, it started in 2014 with the Euromaidan, where both Russian and Western assets certainly played a role in the events, resulting in the annexation of Crimea and the “civil war” in Donbas where Russian paramilitaries and unmarked actual militaries operated.
I support the Ukrainian peoples’ right to self determination and reject war as tool to settle disputes, but saying the US has no responsibility in starting the war is just dishonest. If they wanted they could have assuaged Russia, it’s not like they actually care about Ukrainian people, but it was in their interest for this war to happen, so they stoked the fire. Is it solely their responsibility? No of course, Russia is the one actually waging war, but please let’s be objective.
Oh - I didn’t by any means intend to say the US has no culpability in the war. We absolutely do. A huge contributor to the active phase kicking off in 2022 was the US and the UK essentially abrogating their parts in the Budapest Memorandum - specifically, their guarantees of territorial integrity and sovereignty to Ukraine, in exchange for Ukraine surrendering their nuclear weapons to Russia (which Russia repaid by, of course, doing a shadow invasion in 2014 and an active/open invasion in 2022).
I blame Obama and Merkel for doing fuck-all in 2014. I believe Obama was interested in doing more, but Merkel dug in her heels because of that sweet, sweet oil from Nordstream I (and the at-the-time potential for NS II). She is never to be sufficiently damned for being a core enabler/useful idiot in this clusterfuck of a war that Ukraine is being subjected to. There are not a lot of politicians who fell further in terms of my respect for them than Merkel.
The US put the EU at war in Ukraine?
I’d say the war in Ukraine is the direct result of the illegal Russian invasions in 2014 and 2022 and the ongoing war of aggression, but go off buddy.
Apart from that, yes, the EU is inconvenient for every other bigger power, this includes the single remaining mayor power, the american empire.
Yes, the US looked forward the war in Ukraine because it was another obstacle for the EU economy and its dependance on Russia and the commitment of the EU in it. It was also a way to make EU more tied to the US vassals than what it was before
Not to mention their continued efforts in destabilising MENA which has tangible negative effects on the whole Mediterranean area and to the rest of Europe
A floater
Chinga tu madre culo
I know enough of those words to agree!
I only know the middle two, but that’s enough
So he just thinks Spain isn’t buying enough from the USA’s outlet store.
This article doesn’t even say why Spain isn’t committing to the 5% target. The article OP crossposted says why in the first few sentences:
But Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said at the time that he would not commit to the 5 per cent target, calling it “incompatible with our welfare state and our world vision”.
Not sure how the Politico article is better in this case since it seems less informative.
All the American politicians that managed to persuade foreign states to voluntarily join an “alliance” where one “ally” is dominating everything, decisions, how much land for bases and so on, are all rolling in their graves now
Back when Russia/Soviet Union still had actual power it was a much better deal for Europe.
Also back then European countries couldn’t really choose, the US called the shots
Trump is a fiddle with two strings. One is extortion, and the other is the rug-pull.
The greatest trick the United States ever pulled was convincing the countries in its sphere of influence that they were allies on equal footing.
They probably didn’t need much convincing given they really needed American money.
*Guns not money, they needed time to recover before Russia did a Russia again and invaded it’s neighbours.
…what is a treaty?..
Why’re we using straits times, a state owned newspaper by the Chinese government??
The Straits Times, launched on July 15, 1845, is an English-language newspaper based in Singapore.
Singapore Press Holdings currently owns The Straits Times
Does the article have any problems you’d like to point out, or are we just being weird and racist for the fun of it? The Straights Times is Singaporean, not Chinese. The only link I can find between The Straights Times and the government of China is from a few months ago when the CEO met with several Chinese state-run news agencies to discuss collaborating to “tell the story of the two countries’ development and people-to-people friendship.” That’s the only link I can find. The Singaporean news outlet is most definitely not “a state owned newspaper by the Chinese government.”
Edit: The Straights Times is republishing this article by Reuters. Any complaints you have would be directed there, not at The Straights Times. You’re being weird.
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