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Have you the faintest idea how many US bases there are in Europe? No one asked the US for them, they were built mostly during the cold war when the US very much wanted them as they amplified and extended their force projection to counter the Orcs.
These are just 2 of the US airbases in the UK - look at those antennae. They operate such facilities world wide, not because The UK has a hobby of collecting antenna but because the US needs them to make their global intelligence and comms apparatus work. The Globalhawks, MQ170 and MQ180 drones stay aloft for days and do surveillance almost anywhere - probably delete the 'almost' in the case of those last two. They are completely reliant on satellite communications and those satellites need secure ground stations in friendly, politically stable countries. A lot of US expenditure has basically been to buy the stability they need.
No one asked the US to be 'leader of the free world' they appointed themselves to the role and made sure they kept it for decades by being top dog in military spending and alliances. They made damn sure to fight tooth and nail to prevent nuclear proliferation, with we-got-your-back you don't need it arguments based on their unassailable military strength.
Your re-playing of Krasnov's mournful tune is completely ignoring history and the reality of things. Sure, in more recent years the US has had a growing deficit problem, largely because they keep electing stupid Republican presidents who run up massive debts, and they have started a bit of a whinge about European spending, but in no way have they any right to play the poor injured victim card. That belongs to all those the US keeps asking favours of and betraying, like the Kurds, Afghans, Palestinians and Ukrainians.
The US are backstabbing shits and hearing their pathetic little bleats about how much they spend screwing others over in their various schemes - remember WMD's? and the big oil grab? - hurts my ears.
I am all in favour of countries upping their defence spending it's in and of itself a very good idea and will better allow countries to say no to the US in the future and tell them to go do rude things, but not because those US arseholes are crying poor-mouth.
Repeating it doesn't make it any more true.
NASDAQ is continuing its downtrend today. Here's the last 5 days -
The US specifically requested that Europe not re-arm in the wake of WW2, to avoid any escalation in the region again and to allow the US to focus on the growing threat of communism.
Over the years the question about Europes defences had come up but there was usually something else more pressing that would require cooperation - 9/11, 2008 crash etc. I think Obama was the first one to think about getting Europe defending itself as he really wanted to focus on China but various other items took precedence.
What Europe were not doing was sitting back and taking the Americans for a ride, and the idea that the US was happy to be taken advantage of is fanciful in the extreme.
The not yet 51st state getting it in the n*ts again from there neighbours downstairs. As one Canadian politician ( I think ) said .. Living in Canada at the mo is like living upstairs over a meth lab
I think it's more like that an American Faction seeks NATO support in a civil war than it is that the US withdraws from NATO.
From a purely hard nosed pragmatic view, it's insane that the oligarchs and corporatists are happy to allow Trump to destroy the mechanisms that ensure American supremacy. Even in the wildest Yarvin induced psychosis, America needs to remain the preeminent power in the Western world. Creating a situation that pushes Europe to wake from its post WW2 slumber to challenge American hard power and the Petro Dollar is so crazily self destructive.
It's interesting to note that French president Macron suggested in Washington today that a Ukraine truce could be just weeks away - Like him or loath him but thanks to Trump, Europe are for the first time talking about peace talks / cessation of hostilities in Ukraine. If Biden was still in power the words peace, truce etc would not be mentioned or considered - just more and more billions of Us $ being pumped into a pointless war that is just a stalemate with thousands of young men on all sides being sent to an early grave. (Ditto Gaza)
But it goes without saying that Ukraine will pay a high price for peace as they are currently paying for war, as the US is no longer supporting them militarily or otherwise they are in a no win situation. Their country may end up 20% smaller in size, their hope of becoming a full member of NATO is dashed. Trump is after their natural riches in oil, gas and especially their rare but precious minerals …………an he's not alone there. It could be argued that the world's super powers are dividing up the spoils of war between them - this may not end well as the Ukrainians are a proud and fearless people so a long drawn out gorilla war along the new drawn eastern border may be on the cards even if a UN peace keeping force is on the ground there.
Zelenskyy is, for the first time since the invasion, on a sticky wicket. If he agrees and signs unfavorable peace terms as dictated by Trump & co. he'll be a dead man walking politically speaking. On the other hand if he refuses to make peace and commits his people to years and years of an unwinnable war ………… his future looks bleak indeed.
As an aside but related to above Professor Jeffrey Sachs addressed the European Parliament just last week, I'm unable to provide a link here but it's available on you tube. His perspective on the Ukrainian war, on NATO's expansionism in eastern Eurpoe etc. is to say the least very interesting indeed and worth listening to.
You should see the carnage in crypto today
I fully expect Trump U-turns now that he 💩 the bed for his fanboys
We're done here. There's no point in engaging as you just repeat your debunked drivel over and over again.
No it isn't.
A pointless war for survival for Ukraine. Usual Russian garbage. 3 years later and still this trash gets parroted
During the first lockdowns it certainly felt like there could a serious standoff at some state capital which could morph into something more serious, then the Capitol riot kind of lanced that boil, but Trump is ramping it up again.
So to add to your post I think there's not much that European Nato members could do to help in the event of a widespread US social meltdown. For what it's worth I have relatives in the US who mused about leaving during his first term, now they're seriously considering it.
there are plenty taking daily pot shots - be it in schools, shopping malls, on the street or wherever. Such actions are mainly due to disgruntled aAMERICANS who were slighted at some stage during their lives. Nobody is exempt from being ‘potshotted at’. There are LOaDS of precidences. So, at least some members of the current admin - from the top down need to be VERY CAREFUL as a lot of toes are being walked on at the moment
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Russians using their own as live bait for drones
absolutely no respect for their own lot
It was also unacceptable that Finland and Sweden join NATO . So what - what did Putin do about it , NOTHING only moved soldiers away from the Finnish border down to the front
US asks Canada why they are no longer getting a feed from the Joint Early Warning radar?
'I'm sorry, but the number you have dialled has been disconnected…….snigger'
It’s reminiscent of what the two evils did when they decided to slice Poland between them. Not quite the same but you get the jist.
History doesn't repeat itself but it sure does rhyme a lot according to Hans Rosling.
I'm making plans, I genuinely don't see it surviving past the coming months tbh. I could see Canada interceding to assist Northern states, if called upon.
In an ideal world we'd all like Russia to pull out of eastern Ukraine, Crimea etc, just as Israel should pull out of all the lands they have illegally occupied since 1967 BUT regrettably we do not live in an ideal world.
The stark reality is that Trump/USA have turned their backs on Ukraine, Europe lack the firepower or backbone to push back Putin's army - there isn't even an EU army with one commander in chief so to speak. So Ukraine today is in a limbo situation they have to consider whether to keep fighting an unwinnable war and all it's consequences or sign a very unfavorable peace treaty that will mean loosing up to 20% of their country and billions worth of their natural resources.
I would not like to be in Zelenskyy shoes right now - no peace treaty that he may sign will be favorable to him, his country or it's people. Sadly as we have seen in Gaza might is right and one man's war criminal is another's man's hero ( Think Binen kissing Nethanyahu on both cheeks when he visited the White House just days after being charged as a war criminal by the International Court of Justice Netanyhau) - such is the world we live in today - but it's yet another inconvenient truth to some!
By one interpretation of the second amendment to their constitution, US Citizens are actually obliged to take a shot at Trump at this stage. Particularly members of the armed forces who've sworn to defend the country against it's enemies "foreign and domestic". It must be a very confusing time to be a member of the Secret Service!
Get a grip.
Or the entire US/Israel narrative is entirely bluster. Did Mexico build that wall for Trump? He hasn't mentioned in the second term his absolute failure to fulfil his biggest promise of his first term.
Depending which Israeli outlet you believe the IDF lost so much hardware in Gaza that it will take them nine years to reequip back to where they were before the recent campaign.
The stark reality is the US has only delivered a tenth of the supplies it promised Ukraine yet Ukraine's self arming capabilities are growing everyday. Russian gains are happening at an unsustainable attrition rate for Russian troops.
It is said that every army is perfectly prepared for the last war, and Russia is fighting with meat waves like it's WWII. Whereas Ukraine have integrated drones as a front line infantry weapon, a long way from the drones that the US used in Afghanistan that were piloted from a warehouse outside Las Vegas that were reliant on imperfect information relayed by unreliable actors in a theatre of war that was essentially a man hunt for a Saudi with little regard to Afghanistan.
That's a subtle way of saying they have a hook in him.
WW2?
More like WW1 now by using donkeys and horses
We all noticed how you implied it was NATO's fault that Ukraine was invaded. You can come out with the ideal world park but let's remember appeasement of Germany enabled Nazi Germany to grow as a threat. Russia pose a similar threat.
At the moment the worst I could see happening is a bunch of MAGA loons loading up their flatbeds with weapons and heading for the Canadian border after an inspiring Trump diatribe, but it would peter out quickly with a Canadian border refusal.
It's just the unsavory atmosphere my relations talks about that's actually splitting families, neighbours and friends against eachother.
Even the mighty German army of WWII used horses. Russia are still using the fighting techniques the last war.
Original support was bipartisan, e.g. in May '22 the vote was around 90% of the senate and a little less in the house.
The situation has indeed changed, but the principle of it hasn't. These are the GOP, they don't have principles. So one by one that has dwindled right down. I wouldn't trust them for anything now, apart from a few "hold-outs", they are pretty much captured by MAGA.
How did that war work out for Nazis 1.0 🐴💩
