#Trump, posting on Truth Social on Wednesday, seemed to bristle at suggestions that he was endangering #NATO, boasting that he had pressured #allies to raise spending. “Most weren’t paying their bills, UNTIL I CAME ALONG,” Trump wrote. “I, respectfully, got them to 5% GDP, AND THEY PAY, immediately. Everyone said that couldn’t be done, but it could, because, beyond all else, they are all my friends.”
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@Nonilex
Because now it's them in the gun sights.
..nothing said till then.
They let him act out.
Let me very blunt here:
I have absolutely *no* sympathy for Europe, the EU, or NATO
Trump has been on the International stage for 15-20 years?
Trump should be a known quantity:
he is a profoundly disturbed, acute narcissist *and* a serial, pathological liar
Trump's BFFs are Putin and the kleptocrats of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East
This should be nothing new to any adult European leader
Instead they've been playing footsy with Trump, trying to pretend that if they just let him have his way a little, he'll go away and leave them alone
Didn't work, and Europe has no Plan B
Time to face the reality you've all helped create
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I want the EU to be stronger, be more federal, expand, etc. And I can't find any flaw in your arguments. They could have not been appeasers all these years.
Reminds me of Sweden grovelling to Orban and Erdoğan to be let into NATO. F that. We should have stood tall as a liberal democracy with real freedom of speech etc and said we want to join, and this is us take it or leave it. And just started doing all the allied stuff with our neighbours.
When I hear "red line," I can't help but think about Biden and Rafah. Biden, apparently, used disappearing ink. Hope that's not the case here.
For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.
When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.
It wasn’t always elegant, or dignified, but the policy of strategic acquiescence seemed to be working, *sort of*. #US arms kept flowing to #Ukraine, an all-out #trade war was averted & #Trump deigned to say some nice things about #NATO.
Then came the strikes on #Caracas, explosions that echoed in capitals around the world. Governments that spent years preaching #restraint, legality & #multilateralism found themselves scrambling for words to express unease without triggering #Trump’s fury.
The precarious strategy of managing #Trump, rather than confronting him, looked more exposed when the president & his inner circle revived their talk of “getting” #Greenland & even floated the idea of #military action. To European ears, it sounded less like bluster than a retrograde worldview now backed by unvarnished American might: #power over process, #leverage over #law, #loyalty conditioned on utility.
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“It’s approaching a full-on existential crisis,” said Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for #Europe at political risk consultancy #Eurasia Group. “It could be far greater than #Russia invading #Ukraine because Russia is an adversary. Now, it’s the guarantor of European #security undermining European security.”
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Where many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, caveated or outsourced to #legal abstractions about the #UNCharter, European leaders on Tuesday came out with uncommonly forceful rebukes about the #Trump admin’s greediness on #Greenland.
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The PM of #Denmark, a #NATO member, said a #US action on #Greenland, a territory of the kingdom of Denmark for >300 years, would be the end of the #alliance. Leaders of #France, #Germany, #Italy, #Poland, #Spain & #Britain closed ranks with Copenhagen, issuing a joint statement that Greenland’s future is a matter for “Denmark & Greenland, & them only.”
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