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Europe and Ukraine are learning how little the U.S. cares, as the new president aligns himself with their greatest enemy.
The thing about a war is it forces people to pick a side. And Donald Trump, it seems to many in Europe, is siding with Vladimir Putin.
Seven days of presidential interventions in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have made real the nightmares of Ukrainians and many of their allies, upending the transatlantic relationship that has underpinned European security since 1945.
If there were any lingering doubts about the extent of Trump’s willingness to make enemies in Europe, he ended it Tuesday night when he blamed Ukraine for having “started” the war with Russia. Such blatant defiance of the fact of Putin’s unprovoked invasion three years ago shocked even America’s most loyal friends in the region.
“Jesus,” one British government official said privately in response to the president’s outburst.
“We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days, declining to be identified discussing sensitive matters. “The transatlantic alliance is over.”
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There’s enough room on this planet for everyone, which rightly belongs to everyone, yet everyone’s at the mercy of a self-entitled few who want it all for themselves. Like, piss off already.
The planet rightfully belongs to no one. None of us deserve it.
I believe it was gifted to us, to sustain us, all of us… but have to agree we no longer deserve it.
Gifted? Lol we randomly evolved. There’s no gift, we just grew from monkeys and because it existed. What kind of religious BS is that
You addressed me, I responded… not to flatter you, but with my honest answer. If that doesn’t suit you, by all means carry on chatting with someone else.
Yeah, I don’t take it friendly when someone responds"the earth is flat" or anti-science posting.
Then access to the Earth’s natural resources is our natural right, not a god-given right.
Trump has always been Putin’s puppet.
When Trump couldn’t get a loan from US banks in the '90s he took real estate investment funding from Russian oligarchs, he’s been in their pocket since the same year Dr Dre released The Chronic and the collapse of the USSR
Even before that. By some accounts, he was already in the pockets of the KGB in 1987.
Agreed. This is not NEWs
So… does Europe even get a fighting chance or can Putin just go “Imma nuke whoever moves a finger” and Trump just responds with “sucks to be EU”?
The UK and France have nukes too. I’m of the opinion that Europe could handle Russia in current state as they’re weak thanks to this war, but that also depends on how much help, either direct or indirect, Trump is willing to give Russia. China too, for that matter.
China will rather take a good bite out of outer Manchuria, traditional Chinese clay. There’s a reason they’ve been making so much noise about Taiwan and the South China Sea and it is not because they want you to look anywhere else. Might not even want to keep it, would be a nightmare to administer and justify, but having all of Russia east of the Ural turn into a couple of Mongolias would very much be in their favour. Mongolia is open for business and not a headache for them.
And if taking out imperial Russia finally gets them out of their “century of humiliation” stroppiness then I’m all for it. Oh, and Russia falling is of course also more than welcome.
When peace finally returns, a Trans-Siberian Railway upgraded to Chinese Belt And Road high-speed standards will be an improvement.
The UK ones are in a wierd rental deal where if I remember correctly the us holds at least 1 of the keys
Edit for a link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68357294
The “rental” part of the deal is that we leased the missiles from America and pay an American company to maintain them. Once they’re fitted with a warhead (done in Britain) and loaded aboard the sub, though, they can be fired with literally no outside participation. Being a submarine-based deterrent as it is, they kinda have to be able to operate independently from anything on the land, British government included.
I stand corrected. I’m clearly misremembering. It was around 2014 when the subject was last at the fore front of my mind. For some odd reason
Actually, unofficially, there are more of these kinds. It’s a public secret now anyways. Wait, I don’t know about the keys though…
Not talking about subs,but the payload.
EU can deal with Russia alone well enough. Assuming US doesn’t come in on Russia side of course.
That’s a big assumption.
Agreed. I hope it doesn’t take Europe until the Mediterranean is blocked off by US warships to understand the US is neither a friend, nor neutral, in this. “Trade” just doesn’t cut it for them anymore, they are going for the land grab.
They have the economic and military capabilities. It’s a lack of courage and genuine desire.
The transatlantic alliance is now Canada-EU, & US-Russia.
It’s still trans-atlantic, but … it’s just that “now there are two of them”
( insert meme of those obsidian-colored “aliens” actors )
The only question remaining is … with Orban IN the EU, & openly enemy of civil-rights & the EU,
AND the EU’s countries apparently courting Millei??
( snappy TV jingle, here )
WILL the EU survive as a civil-rights aligned entity,
XOR will it “obey the zeitgeist” & obey the fascist-global-alliance?
Humankind wants to know!
Stay tuned, for next-week’s installment in “how much hell can be established on Earth THIS week?™”, the global reality-TV program which some hope NONE of us will survive!
( insert jingle here )
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Musk’s America. Trump is an impotent CEO, answerable to Chairman of the Board of the USA Elon Musk. At least, that’s what it looked like to me in the Hannity interview. And once Musk deposes Trump, things are gonna get darker fast.
Obviously, I hope I’m wrong, this is all speculation, but holy shit this looks ugly.
Board of the UZA*
Does EM even have an opinion about Russia and Ukraine conflict? I highly doubt it
LOL do you not think there is an extraordinary amount of power, capital, and resources to be gained by inserting himself into the negotiations? Gimme a break. This guy has been broadcasting exactly who he is, it’s time people start believing him.
He’s been low key rooting for russia, which makes sense as he is a racist oligarch.
Donald’s ghostwriter penning “Mein Trumpf” as we speak
This is part of the billionaire Network State global plan in the works. They took over the U.S., they want to break up the E.U.’s power, then weaken any country that will stand up to billionaires in any regulatory capacity. The rise of the right has just been a convenient mechanism to enact their power grab. The rich want to weaken all nation state power so they can be untethered by any power to counteract their will.
That reminds me the man in the high castle
Ukraine was never an ally. They are a customer.,
