Trump floats dropping Spain from NATO alliance
Trump floats dropping Spain from NATO alliance
www.straitstimes.com
Trump floats dropping Spain from NATO alliance
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50670212
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Please stop sanewashing Rump's ramblings, which are as numerous and wild and pointless as... meh, I'm all out of analogies.
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Chinga tu madre culo
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I know enough of those words to agree!
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I only know the middle two, but that's enough
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So he just thinks Spain isn't buying enough from the USA's outlet store.
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All the American politicians that managed to persuade foreign states to voluntarily join an "alliance" where one "ally" is dominating everything, decisions, how much land for bases and so on, are all rolling in their graves now
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Trump is a fiddle with two strings. One is extortion, and the other is the rug-pull.
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Why're we using straits times, a state owned newspaper by the Chinese government??
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The Straits Times, launched on July 15, 1845, is an English-language newspaper based in Singapore.
Singapore Press Holdings currently owns The Straits Times
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Does the article have any problems you'd like to point out, or are we just being weird and racist for the fun of it? The Straights Times is Singaporean, not Chinese. The only link I can find between The Straights Times and the government of China is from a few months ago when the CEO met with several Chinese state-run news agencies to discuss collaborating to "tell the story of the two countries’ development and people-to-people friendship." That's the only link I can find. The Singaporean news outlet is most definitely not "a state owned newspaper by the Chinese government."
Edit: The Straights Times is republishing this article by Reuters. Any complaints you have would be directed there, not at The Straights Times. You're being weird.
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..what is a treaty?..
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Not sure, let's ask the native Americans. Oh wait...
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...hey, chippy, you keep your past to your self...
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Better article- https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-suggests-booting-laggard-spain-from-nato-over-defense-spending/
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This article doesn't even say why Spain isn't committing to the 5% target. The article OP crossposted says why in the first few sentences:
But Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said at the time that he would not commit to the 5 per cent target, calling it “incompatible with our welfare state and our world vision”.
Not sure how the Politico article is better in this case since it seems less informative.
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Because the source is important, and Politico is generally more trustworthy.
With both articles, you can now probably trust what's in them (and maybe use context clues to figure out a little bit about the biases of both authors). But until seeing the story corroborated by a reputable source, I will not take it at face value.
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What a turd
That's not how NATO works. He can't kick out somebody because he wants to.
NATO is agreement they all members are committed to defend each other in case of attack.
What he is actually doing is trying to divide and break NATO for his boss, putin.
From his actions so far I'm worried that if Russia attacks Europe, not only US won't help, he will be actively sabotaging any operations.
No man, he's trying to use this thing to divide Europe. US (not only Trump, even all previous presidents) don't like EU, it's a problem for the geopolitical monopoly of US. In this historical period, US need to reaffirm their economical superiority and want to call their vassals to the order. But EU is an obstacle to the US vassalage project, so they want to destroy it. They help anti-EU movements and at the same time the pro US parties. They impose double taxes and military expenditure (that is another tax). They pretend to EU trades only with US and US vassals by requiring economic taxes against China and support to Israel. They put at war the EU in Ukraine to stress it's economy. And now, their just using another opportunity to stress the relationships between UE states, because now Italy, Hungary, Polony, and France (which is a soon-to-be right-wing US friend) need to take position about it, and are just looking forward to have another opportunity to divide EU.
Incredibly stupid even if he could, they hold the straight of gebalter which is one of the most important if not the most important military location in the world. Stupidity is the reason authoritarians destroy their own countries more so than even corruption.
A floater