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In reply to the discussion: Trump strongly considering pulling out of NATO [View all]ChicagoTeamster
(979 posts)Canada and Mexico made trade deals with each other, China, and our European trade partners all because of Trump's insults and attempts to damage their economies with his game of musical tariffs.
Now, after Trump committed the US to Netanyahu's war on Iran against the advice of current and former intelligence chiefs, and current and former General staff of our military, he wants our NATO allies to lose their troops and ships in the Straight of Hormuz to take over a war he didn't consult them on after it has already reached the lose lose situation phase where every option left for any type of ground invasion is a suicide mission.
After the man who's entire lineage of male family members have evaded military service for over 150 years, himself included, he's telling the very allies who's militaries sacrificed service members coming to our defense when Article 5 was invoked after 9/11 that they didn't actually fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. The man who abandoned our Kurdish allies in Syria allowing the Russians to take over our bases. The man who wants Zelensky to surrender territory to Russia after losing so many citizens to the illegal invasion of the Russian aggressor. The man who's own sons bragged about how they no longer needed banks after Trump's bankruptcy because they were getting all of the funding they needed for their hotel and golf businesses from the Russians. Now it's from the Saudis and Qataris and UAE.
But, after all of those insults to their loyalty, and attacks on their economies, he wants our former European allies and trade partners to take the place of the US military in being decimated in a war he joined Israel in starting with Iran. If they drain their finances and lose ships, troops, and tanks in Iran, how will they defend Europe from the Russians?