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NATO's job is to protect member states from Russian aggression. Trump has zero concept of history.
Trump's Pentagon insisted on a go-it-alone approach to Iran at the outset. This wasn't NATO's choice it was Hegseth's choice.
Even fucking Chimp-in-Chief Bush Jr had the decency to assemble the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq. Rubio couldn't be bothered to get the fucking Turks and Saudis on board, and they've hated Iran since the Ottoman Empire fell.
Absolutely bonkers to talk about this as some kind of NATO failure to comply when the treaty was never invoked to begin with. Doubly so, when you consider how many NATO bases are still ultimately being used by US forces to get hardware into position.
Trump asked NATO to the prom and she said a hard "No!".
maybe it's my lack of geographical knowledge, but where in the USA is this objective exactly?
He's been rejected by everybody he's ever met. That's probably why he's a rapist and a predator.
Aww.
NATO was created as a defensive measure to present a combined defence in the event of being attacked.
It was NOT created to provide back up to a wannabe Napoleon with tiny dick syndrome because he decides to start a war on his own.
… to cover his previous child raping activities
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Trump finally reaping what he sows. Or, to put it more succinctly for my contemporary peers...he found out!
"hey, you, fuck you! also, I'll take your shit. also, come help me pls! but also, fuck you." - tronald dump
That was one labored sentence! I cannot be the only one that parsed it as: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO (while) most allies (are) to join mission ..."
Instead, it wants to say: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO and most allies (in his desire for them) to join mission ..."
Yeah, this is awful. Headlinese is fun and all, but this is too much.
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Israel are going to be so mad!
I am able to bear the suffering of Israel with a tremendous amount of dignified fortitude.
"Guys! GUYS! You really depend on the oil that flows through the Strait so come and help me open it!"
"But your actions closed it in the first place."
"OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WON'T HELP! :`("
Fuck me, this is what international politics and diplomacy have become.
Also, most NATO countries don't really depend that much on that oil. Most of it goes to Asia.
It's the various US allies in the gulf that are going to be feeling the pinch the most. If oil isn't getting out, they won't be getting paid. And they're getting pelted by Iranian drones to boot.
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But I thought that the “greatest military in the world” wouldn’t need help for a war that has “already been won”?
That's not it. It's the lack of enthusiasm that drags Donnie down, the feeling that he has to always be the one to come up with ideas to keep this relationship with NATO alive.
Would it kill them to bomb one little school, leave some civilian corpses as a surprise around the (white) house or do those sweet little coups together in a foreign land, like they used to do?
It's exhausting, really
He's being"rejected" by a group that he has spent the last year shitting on?
Gee, what a surprise...
He can ask "Board of Peace" for help
haha didn't think of that yet. The "thank you" from trump to Qatar, Bahrain, Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan: quite a few of the members got fucked over very quickly with the generous gift of regional instability!
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NATO is a defensive alliance, not to be invoked when you get bribed by the zionists to start a war you cant finish. Our NATO allies owe us nothing in this situation but lawsuits for US/Israeli terrorism and destroying the oil markets.
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so the NATO that he trashes all the time, and wants the US to abandon, won't help him in his entirely unnecessary War that he's thrown his country into, purely in an attempt to divert attention from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein...... How surprising.
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Reads like a text chat between an incel and a woman on the internet.
Trump: You are stupid. You are ugly and fat. I'm so much better than you ever will be and also fuck all our agreements. Null and void. And you owe me $13.47 for that coffee I paid for.
Them: stares confused . Then watches their economies be negatively impacted by trump.
Trump: hey we are buddies right? Come help me bomb civilians.
Them: no thanks.
Trump: you are a stupid fat ugly bitch and I don't need you anyway.
Trump (next day): how's it going? . So when are you deploying your troops to help out at the straight?
Them: blocks trump
Yup. It's really as simple as that. Trump is a sociopathic abuser, and the macro version of that is essentially the same as the micro.
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What does he think NATO is? Isn’t the treaty to protect against aggression, not be the aggressors?
He believes he is the king of the world and NATO is a human resources investment similar to the many departments of Trump Kingdom LLC.
Far as he's concerned, who cares if that's not their job or intention. He's paying the bills damn it - he pay the bill, plebs do what he says. It's really that simple.
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"I would also like to remind you that the U.S. and Israel did not consult us before the war, and that Washington explicitly stated at the start of the war that European assistance was neither necessary nor desired," Kornelius said.
Good, but I suspect that someday somebody else will help him,
He doesn't understand the difference between NATO and The UN. It's really wild.
Literally no official channel from the US has asked NATO. (Rage tweets are not official) The US was not attacked so it can’t invoke article 5. No one from NATO needs to help this American war adventurism.
No one from NATO needs to help this American war adventurism.
Further to that, they all recognize the folly of the whole thing and don't want to get mired in the disaster that Trump has triggered.
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Still too big for this fool.
"Mum. MUM. MUMMMMMMMMM!"
"WHAT?"
"Clean me. I've did a whoops in my pants."
"Again? Oh FFS."
...
two minutes later
...
"MUMMMMMMM."
"WHAT?"
"Clean me. I've done another whoopsy. It stinks."
"NO, clean up your own mess."
"OMG, THIS IS SO UNFAIR. I'M GOING TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE TO TELL THE WORLD HOW YOU WON'T CLEAN UP MY SHIT!"
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