WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday the NATO alliance should weigh throwing Spain out of its membership ranks over a dispute about the Western European nation's lagging military spending. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Bleak. But still you’re perpetrating the picture the US likes to paint of themselves: the de facto sheriff of the world. Which has always been delusional (but something voters really go for apparently), and getting more so by the minute.
I also need to add that Russia’s invasion was a European problem in early 2022. Sure, US influence had already been a thing in Ukraine, but imho all that has been blown up by Russia’s troll army after the fact. Even “NATO coming too close” or some such - painting Russia as the victim, not perpetrator - wasn’t a talking point until long after the war started. Seriously, Finland joining NATO? That’s entirely your fault, Putler.
That said, of course NATO-Russia relations have never been very good, almost by design.