Blonde instructors, a la Top Gun?
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Holy shit that Bloatus is leaning on private companies not to do business with Ukraine
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Under the working theory that every accusation is a confession… It occurred to me, maybe Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator because that is his own path to dictatorship: start a war or create major unrest, then declare martial law, then postpone elections.
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Yeah, Trump is itching to remove all the barriers between him and absolute power.
With regards to Ukraine I am waiting for the report of US assets, knowledge, whatever assisting Russia against Ukraine. It would not surprise me if he has already shared military intelligence with Russia against Ukraine.
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One Vance is knowledgeable on Ukraine.
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Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on Moscow last night.
NATO is essentially treating the US as a non-allied country and strategizing without us.
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Can’t really blame them in the current state
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Malhuret said in the speech that Europe was at a “critical juncture of its history”.
“The American shield is slipping away, Ukraine risks being abandoned and Russia is being strengthened,” he said. He said the message of Trump – the “king of the deal” – is that “being his ally serves no purpose because he will not defend you”.
Malhuret accused Trump of presiding over a “seizure of democracy”, saying “never in history” had a US president “surrendered to the enemy”. “We were at war with a dictator,” he said in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Now we are fighting against a dictator supported by a traitor.”
During their heated meeting in the Oval Office, Trump had treated the “war hero” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “stable boy”, Malhuret said. In his interview with AFP, Malhuret insisted that, compared to the daily diatribes from Trump and Musk, what he had said was “very respectful”.
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I don’t disagree with their reasoning, but what happens if the US ends up withdrawing from NATO? Doesn’t the US provide about 2/3 of NATO’s funding? If the US goes, NATO probably collapses.
Naw, it shrinks and becomes less effective but I think it continues to exist.
The US provides 2/3 of NATO funding in the sense that the US military budget is massive and is double the rest of NATO combined. But the US also has military requirements around the world that have nothing to do with NATO. Recently, the EU NATO countries have had to spend a large fraction of their military budgets on supporting the US in Afghanistan and Iraq. If the US were to pull out, NATO would be focused more regionally, but still remain the dominant military power in Europe.
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Let’s not forget the MIC, which enjoys those sweet, sweet contracts. Don’t wanna fuck with them.
It would be sad if US withdrew from NATO. However the Europeans and Canada are prepared to increase military spending massively to partially fund the shortfall. There is probably a lot of fat in NATO’s budget so maybe Trump will second Musk to trim it.
I expect US military equipment manufacturers to take a bit of a beating from the combination of reduced US military spending and non-US countries switching to European military equipment suppliers from US ones
Guessing that scumbag Putin will use these soldiers as bargaining chips in the Ukraine negotiations.
I hope you are wrong but I’m sure you’re right.
I thought that’s been Putin’s line since the start of the “Special Military Operation”.
The State Department has quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell The New Republic .
The Yale lab had also transferred names and dossiers on the abducted kids it had located to Ukrainian authorities. But the underlying evidence—the hard digital documentation of kids’ movements and locations compiled with sophisticated technologies—still needs to be transferred to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement arm, the source with direct knowledge of the operation says.
This transfer to Europol has been interrupted by the Trump-Rubio State Department’s cancellation of the award, according to that source and a Democratic congressional aide with knowledge of the contract. This sort of tracking involves extremely complex and technologically sophisticated work, and the evidence itself—which is essential to proving the abductions—is highly complicated and must be moved via secure channels.
One thing…when Trump invades Greenland, prolly can forget about any Western European states sending troops to help.
I’ve read this several times… we really need the :-? emoji on this site.