Europe and Ukraine are learning how little the U.S. cares, as the new president aligns himself with their greatest enemy.
The thing about a war is it forces people to pick a side. And Donald Trump, it seems to many in Europe, is siding with Vladimir Putin.
Seven days of presidential interventions in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have made real the nightmares of Ukrainians and many of their allies, upending the transatlantic relationship that has underpinned European security since 1945.
If there were any lingering doubts about the extent of Trump’s willingness to make enemies in Europe, he ended it Tuesday night when he blamed Ukraine for having “started” the war with Russia. Such blatant defiance of the fact of Putin’s unprovoked invasion three years ago shocked even America’s most loyal friends in the region.
“Jesus,” one British government official said privately in response to the president’s outburst.
“We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days, declining to be identified discussing sensitive matters. “The transatlantic alliance is over.”
Going to doubt this one.
Trump is Putin’s ally. America is not Trump.
Wrong. America wasn’t Trump in 2012. I would even argue America wasn’t Trump in 2016. They were dumb, naive, optimistic, victims of thr EC… Pick your excuse. America wasn’t Trump in 2020.
Then they saw the insurrection, the nuclear secrets in the bathroom, the 11k votes mafia extortion, the sexual abuse liability, the racism, the criminal convictions, (let alone the whole first presidency dumpster fire) and on the other hand eggs were a bit expensive and they went with trump. En masse.
And now trump has the highest approval ratings, north of 50% even.
That excuse has sailed, America IS trump. Not everyone is, but enough are.
If America is going to continue to be not Trump, it’s going to have to move fast.
With Musk threatening 60 Minutes staffers with prison and Trump taking over the FCC, it’s already moving into the official government-controlled media stage, and when (if) significant protests start happening, it’s going to quickly move into the gulags and mass graves stage.
And then, for all intents and purposes, the US will be Trump, like it or not.
So far, their checks & balances have been failing, unfortunately. Something about corruption in DOJ in recent news, leaves me very worried about the last Pillar. I hope the US citizens from both parties make it a democracy again: by the people for the people.
I hope the American people abandon both parties.
That’s what has to happen in order to recover from what trump is doing to this country.
But Trump is America’s government.
They did elect Trump to speak and act on their behalf tho
Correct. Technically: 22.7% of the total populace voted for Trump. 32.2% of the eligible voters. 49.8% of the cast votes.
Trmps favorability ratings are actually rising. He’s about to cross his unfavorability rating and become net favorable.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/
Not a good look, America.
It’s an unstable country that enabled this to happen. Yes, there are a lot of people who would never do this awful shit but, sorry, this is what the US is and largely has been.
Trump is a symptom, it was the institution that is US and many of its people that allowed to get into power. You can’t just pin it on him and then when he eventually(please let it be soon) dies act like anything is fixed. The US is putin’s ally and there are many unfortunate people along for the ride. That is a truth you need to face or nothing will ever get better.
Trump’s friendship with Putin is not fresh news and American voters have not given a shit
In Iran there are also people who love democracy, but I am sorry to say that, just like in America, they are a minority.
Really? That’s odd, because he seems to be doing anything he wants right now, and no one is stopping him.
It’s painful to say, but it’s true until Congress or SCOTUS end his consolidated power executive order. Until then, our entire government is complicit.
america needs to dump trump, and fast. right now, HE ‘is’ america, and until the rest of america sheds themselves of him and the maga cult,
americathe world is fucked.