There is no NATO without the US. They are the strongest member of the organisation and were instrumental in setting it up in 1949.
NATO without the US isn't NATO and without them would be extremely weak.
Havent budged an inch, zero fuks about him either way.
Its a shame you cant see outside your obsession. Theres life outside your two-teams nonsense.
You have no idea what my "obsessions" are.
I disagree.
Well over 1 million active military personnel in the EU. And over 3 million reserves. A combined defense budget forecast to reach over 300bn.
EU beats Russia (its only real threat) on practically all stats. (Especially now). Whats lacking is a well integrated command. Nato has proven that this can be achieved. So EU is developing its own backup mechanism to act like nato. (European defense agency, csdp, pesco).
And as we see, its needed. We need more of it. Because US can easily go America first.
Macron is right, strategic autonomy is a must.
Ok, whatever. Fuk this.
Ill take it to twitter and reddit, etc.
I'm sorry , but that's utter nonsense.
Yes , the US could indeed elect an isolationist President which in the current cycle would be Trump if they were to so choose.
Frankly I have no idea where Angela Merkel comes into the discussion to be honest..
If they choose to reelect Biden or an alternative Democrat should the candidate not be Biden then the US won't have an isolationist in the White house.
Given the US electoral system is is a binary choice , there isn't another outcome.
Since the rise of the "MAGA" variant of the GOP the risk of an isolationist POTUS has definitely increased, so your underlying point about Europe and the rest of the world not taking US support for granted is reasonable to a certain extent.
However, practical reality means that the world has to care about the possible election of an incompetent isolationist in the US no matter how well we all might prepare for the scenario, so your faux blasé attitude really doesn't hold water I'm afraid.
You can "disagree" all you want. But the fact is that the US is the strongest member of NATO and without them the organisation is weakened significantly. They supply more personnel than the next six countries involved and provide more airpower than all other 29 NATO countries combined.
Couldnt Biden just turn around and go isolationist?
The risk exists in either case. And if not during one administration then why not the next.
I know what does hold water .. some of the craniums in here.
you think after 70+ years he is going to do a turnabout on policy? Biden is an anti-isolationist as they come.
Sure.. And Up could be Down and Black could be White.
But, back here in the real world - No, the ONLY party that have ever espoused anything even remotely close to a set of isolationist policies are the MAGA version of the GOP and that is based largely on the fact that Donald Trump is incredibly stupid and views the entire world as a zero-sum game and thinks that for him to be a winner ,someone else has to be a loser.
That infantile view of the world is why he doesn't understand concepts like Trade deficits or Mutual assistance efforts etc.
As I said, I don't disagree with your view that greater autonomy for Europe or at least lesser reliance on the US is a good thing , but the idea that we should all simply not care about who is in office in the US because "sure they could change their mind anytime" is just not grounded in any kind of pragmatic realism.
It is a very isolationist view point in itself to be honest - "We can't trust anyone , so let's not bother engaging and do it all ourselves"
Trump is getting slapped left right and centre at the moment.
His lawyers asked that the Jury just be instructed not to read into him possibly not being present for the E Jean carroll defamation case and E Jean Carroll slapped a wonderful response.
"Mr. Trump’s position is especially difficult to credit in light of his own recent activity. Over the past few weeks, Mr. Trump attended the Ultimate Fighting Championship 287 event,1 spoke at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting,2 and appeared for a deposition in the New York Attorney General’s civil case against Mr. Trump, his adult children, and the Trump Organization.3 On Monday, he announced that he has scheduled a New Hampshire campaign event for next Thursday, April 27—in other words, in the middle of the trial in this case. 4 If Mr. Trump can find a way to attend wrestling championships, political conventions, civil depositions, and campaign functions, then surely he could surmount the logistics of attending his own federal trial. "
And as for Mike Lindell, he's just been ordered to pay up the $5m bounty he offered to "prove Mike Wrong" an Arbitration Panel agreed with a computer forensics expert that "not only did not prove voter fraud, it had no connection to the 2020 election. He was the only expert who submitted a claim, arbitration records show."
Lindell really is a massive **** show.
Full article https://archive.ph/KQHLk
Lindell really is an object lesson in the dangers of blind loyalty and obsession.
He is a man with a history of obsessive and self-destructive behaviour and having done so very well to pull himself out of some pretty dark places and become a successful business man he has now ruined everything and is likely to be made bankrupt by his unfailing loyalty to Trump.
It's quite sad really how pathetic he is.
And Judge Kaplan has just made their ruling :)
But, there are good people on both side...
Lindell is like the comedy character that was written in for light relief. Doesn’t fit in with the rest of the show but inexplicably the writers instead of writing him out just keep giving him more a more ludicrous lines.
Jaysus, those new jpegs Trump is flogging.
There is no words.
God he's not doing more NFTs is he?
Afraid so. Riding a motorcycle, rubbing his mushroom on the Liberty Bell, crossing the Delaware as a Revolutionary War cosplayer, ...
A nice footnote to the effects of the Dominion - Fox News settlement. Lachlan Murdoch has dropped a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news outlet, which he claims he would definitely have won, because they were going to use documents and evidence from the Dominion case and Murdoch didn't want those documents to be entered into a court.
Okay I’m just going to say it, anyone that buys one of those ridiculous things is a **** moron and probably deserves to have their money grifted off them in this manner, if it wasn’t NFT’s they’d all be planting magic beans or sending their money to some ridiculous cult leader.
The same is true for all NFTs, but especially those ones. Utterly horrendous, tacky pieces of sh*t.
TBF if you buy 47 of them you get to have dinner with Trump.
Plus a free bottle of snake oil.
That's another addition to one of the many potential court cases against Trump.
Over the years he has offered private meetings/dinners to donors as an incentive for them to give more money.
To date there is zero evidence that anyone has ever "won" any of these raffles/prizes and Trump has never in fact had a private meeting with any of these people.
There are several open fraud investigations ongoing into this.
Always gotta be a grift on top of the grift.
Griftception
I see Larry Elder is going for president.
Trump v Black Trump.
The traded insults should be interesting.
Or he'll direct his fire at the other candidates and angle for Trump's VP slot.
I'm going to guess Trump would go for "Low IQ Larry" as his go-to insult name. "Low IQ" seems to be his verbal jab of choice when he's trying not to sound racist against an African American detractor / opponent.
You'd think that he'd have an even harder time this time round finding someone to be his VP, since he had a mob try and kill his last one. But then again the hardcare MAGAts aren't necessarily very bright...
