The irony of him misusing “paper tiger” and then demonstrating its correct usage is going to implode me.
“President of the USA threatens to destroy the USAs most powerful geopolitical tool”
Growing up I legitimately thought the US were the head of NATO. Gotta admit that I only recently, like a good few years ago, found out that’s not true.
The way they act is so bizarre, no matter from which angle you approach the topic.
It’s not bizarre if you look at from the angle that Trump is a Russian asset
That puppet is way too skinny.
Growing up I legitimately thought the US were the head of NATO.
Depending on what exactly you mean by “head of NATO”, they kind of are.
The Supreme Allied Commander Europe has always been an American General. So in case of an actual NATO war in Europe, the US would be in charge of coordinating joint military operations.
I meant sort of like the US government being able to more or less directly command NATO, calling all the shots atleast.
Right, the US couldn’t just take command of NATO and other member states’ militaries without those countries signing off on it. But they can basically use political pressure to make countries join their excursions, like what happened after 9/11 (the only time Article 5 was ever invoked). And well, the “defensive” aspect of that entire campaign is questionable …
So while they don’t have direct control, I’d still say the US is very much the “head of NATO”.
I mean the US’s most powerful geopolitical tool is a toss up between its weapons industry, its dominance in global finance and being the richest country in the world, but yeah NATO is a close third/fourth.
He’s been very active in it since the first term.
Saw this comment made elsewhere:
Why doesn’t Trump ask his ‘Board of Peace’ to come bail him out?
Or his buddy putain. He will always shit on allies before adversaries.
Remember the Suez Crisis? Pepperidge Farm remembers…
NATO is not there just to bail you out when stupid wars you start go south.
PS:
Vice-President Richard Nixon (Europe) later explained: “We couldn’t on one hand, complain about the Soviets (russians) intervening in Hungary (Ukraine) and, on the other hand, approve of the British (muricans) and the French (israel?) picking that particular time to intervene against Nasser (Iran)”.
lol
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.
All he knows is how to act like a mafioso. I think he fundamentally doesn’t understand what an alliance actually is.
He doesn’t understand what a mafioso does, either. He saw a couple gangster movies but didn’t understand the subtext.
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.
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.
Weak-mindedness and hard power don’t really work together.
“He” has a lot of people in the room making decisions.
Please proofread the PS part, is hard to understand
When you think the orange child rapist cannot display any less understanding of what is happening around him… he reconfirms ignorance knows no limits
His whole life others get him bailed out from tribute he created, but this time no one wants to get into this mess. I think he is panicking.
You’re fired! Oh, in US english: Your fired!
Trump fundamentally misunderstands
the idea of NATO and its position purely as a defensive alliance.Edit: ftfmyself
Everyone eventually turns away from a baby’s constant tantrum, except the poor mother, and she’s long gone.
“Paper tiger.”
What’s next? “Running dog curs”?
