Sometimes I wish the US were what tankies say it is.

Is there a historical precedent for punishing the defender for daring to successfully resist invasion by a third country?

Still, can China be a “better” block than the US? They’re trying to emulate the US without the rule of law, democracy and alliances…if the US ends up without rule of law, democracy or alliances…how does China become the better option? They just become equally shitty.

Daddy issues on a society-wide scale, ffs.

Even worse, look at this bullshit: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-844166

Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralized, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey’s growing influence in the country, four sources familiar with the efforts said.

I’ve seen some analysts claim that just this one time Zelensky needed to be more of an actor and smile and wave through the bullshit. But I disagree, if you stand for nothing, you will keep getting walked over, if not by putin, by trump, like little Marco here.

But he doesn’t even understand how that works, he thought it was protection money. “Ya gotta pay your bills”

Who’s gonna be representing murica there? Is it gonna be this happy threesome?

trump is a good punishment for power-hungry politician types, too bad that it is at everyone else’s expense.

The respect comment took me back to his donut debacle. The couchfucker is a charisma void.

NATO is dead for all practical purposes. You think this trump asswipe is going to lift a finger if anything more serious happens in Europe?

"They didn’t know"^TM

This guy does (he was there too, sitting next to vance, btw)

What makes you think NATO is something he wants? If anything, he could be plotting a 30x bigger surprise than the invasion of Ukraine if the americans betray Europe on the battlefield by removing all the NATO command structures by surprise in the event of new russian escalation.

If only it were just that simple. Now, whenever there is an election here, we gotta deal with russian, Chinese and US state interference…

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/26/kaja-kallas-meeting-with-marco-rubio-cancelled-due-to-scheduling-issues

Well, that’s the problem with NATO, it was always US interests first and European interests second. Whenever those two diverged, the Europeans just had to sit on their hands (that was the deal, that is why defense spending was not a priority)…but this time it is different: it has proven existential for Europe, regardless of whatever direction the wind may be blowing at that one time in the oval office.

Yea, looks like they used their leverage over Zelensky to lure him into a trap that turned out to be a verbal-WWE media stunt…

…turns out Zelensky is more articulate and mature than both of them combined…

Yea, that is what trump is: weaponized reality tv for rubes. No competence, just circus and mayhem.

It exploits fatal vulnerabilities in education, democracy and 24h-journalismnews cycle.

…this was a less respectable exchange than what you watch in most vapid reality shows…what a display with so much at stake…