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Starmer shrugs off Trump’s threat to leave NATO after president calls alliance a ‘paper tiger’
(www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
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Remember the Suez Crisis? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
NATO is not there just to bail you out when stupid wars you start go south.
PS:
lol
All he knows is how to act like a mafioso. I think he fundamentally doesn't understand what an alliance actually is.
He fundamentally doesn’t understand a lot of geopolitical and basic human norms unfortunately.
Except for “might makes right” apparently… 😑
And he doesn't even know how to apply that properly. If you're going to be a bully and use hard power, you have to exercise said hard power against anyone who argues.
Weak-mindedness and hard power don't really work together.
He doesn't have the heart to be a dictator. The guy likes the admiration too much and is scared of that going away, so he chickens out when a real dictator needs to get tough. By doing that he's showing weakness to the real dictators, the equivalent of having a "kick me" sign stuck to his back.
If you are forced to pick between being feared and being loved, always pick being feared. it's more reliable.
“He” has a lot of people in the room making decisions.
He doesn't understand what a mafioso does, either. He saw a couple gangster movies but didn't understand the subtext.
He's not a mafioso. He's a schoolyard bully. He's never outgrown that mentality because he's never had to.
Eisenhower was very strongly anti-imperialist and was pressuring Britain and France to relinquish their colonies, which they eventually did, though France tried hard to hang onto Algeria until they were driven out. And both Britain and France still hang onto places here and there (part of Polynesia, Martinique, Diego Garcia, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland,,,).
And of course, Eisenhower cared about not being a hypocrite. Trump will say or do anything, regardless of consistency, like postal voting while trying to ban postal voting. For him, it's a flex.
Eisenhower was surplanting the French and British Empires with the American Empire. That's why he had his brother organize the coup in Tehran and why he laid the groundwork for Vietnam.
Please proofread the PS part, is hard to understand