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One question directly invokes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's demand that allies stay "strong, clear, and quiet" in alignment with U.S. interests.

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[–] o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

But what about the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM) ?

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (see this article)

They know that when it comes to NATO, it’s there to protect the United States because US needs to secure Atlantic and secure Arctic and secure Europe to stay safe here in the US mainland but it is also there to make sure Europe is safe and to be this platform of power projection for the United States. So, what the US did with Iran, they could do because so many European countries lived up to those commitments.“

So basically do as you're told. Europe are the vassals and subservient to Nato. Always have been. This is not new, Trump is just more honest (lol). And with NATO 3.0 it's 5% GDP into privatized military industrial complex, Europe pays, gives Soliders, US plutocrats get the money. That is the new model. It's already ratified.

Meanwhile on Ukraine / Russia: "Oh NATO is such a friendly and nice purely defensive alliance between enlightened countries! There is simply no reason at all why Russia should have anything against it!"

The amount of double think is astonishing.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

im thinking America think to much of itself and that idea will be challenged in the coming years givein its failure at subduing iran so far.

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