• albert180@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Then we should stop allowing them using Rammstein as a Hub to meddle in Middle East and Africa.

    No cherrypicking

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    11 months ago

    Just for anyone who still holds out hope: NATO as we have known it is over. The US won’t come to the defense of the other members if they are attacked. It’s time to move on.

    • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      This was Putin’s goal. Destabilize NATO. Crumbling US alliances is just the cherry on top.

      We are losing long friends and close allies.

      All because a plurality of voters want to feel powerful.

      Even if it’s for a brief moment.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      nor should they trust us with ANYTHING until a new administration. and only then after a long time of repair and re-establishing of long term trust.

      our rollercoaster is coming off the rails, it would be silly for 5eyes or any other allies to trust anything from this absolute shitshow.

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        As long as the US does not reform its democracy there is no chance of rebuilt trust. The president now being immune against the law, the way he can dictate by executive order and the broken election system mean that there is no long term planning possible. Combine that with their utterly defunct news system and I only see them sliding further downwards.

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    Do we want them to participate in the planning. Before you know it they sell the plans (and everything else) to Putin. I think it is time we start to treat them as a untrustworthy nation.

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    It seems ever less likely the US will participate in the NATO summit in The Hague. Too bad for Mark, though people living and working there will probably not mind.

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      11 months ago

      Looking more and more likely to see US folks in the Hague for vastly different reasons in the future…

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      11 months ago

      Heard King WA is going to throw a fancy dinner for the NATO leaders, so Donny might be interested to attend.

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          I think he is susceptible to all things pompous, so he might be interested. I think he knows the Netherlands have a royal house, i can remember Rutte being over at the white house in his first term and he thought the name " the kingdom of the Netherlands" was really great. But who knows!

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      Pretty sure that if a US military person crosses the threshold of the Hague they catch on fire

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    what even is their goal? just yet i refuse to believe there is none and that theyre just dumb, because theyre obviously not.

    america first for every price? but would it not be better to trade with us and have us as allies versus china and russia? we would spend our money and work together so its all more efficient.

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      The goal is to turn USA into a puppet state for Russia. Trump is going to try to cancel elections and ultimately Americans will be drafted to fight for Russia. Assuming trump has his way.

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        11 months ago

        They don’t need to be drafted for Russia, they’ll just be deployed alongside/on the western front.

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      The voters are stupid, all they see is “america first fuck yeah!” They don’t understand or care about the consequences

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      I strongly disagree. They are actually very dumb and there is no grand strategy at play here. While everyone tries to understand the sense behind the erratic decisions, there really is not much to understand at all. It’s as simple as “we don’t want to spend money on European defense anymore”, so all activities related to that are stopped, without any regard to the consequences.

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        They don’t need to be particularly smart, each to each, in order to both want to and be capable of annexing somewhere.

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      It has nothing to do with “America First”, if so then dismantling the entire US superpower hegemony and its alliances would be a contraproductive move.

      This has everything to do with “Russia First”.