• johannessmits@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Do we want them to participate in the planning. Before you know it they sell the plans (and everything else) to Putin. I think it is time we start to treat them as a untrustworthy nation.

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    Just for anyone who still holds out hope: NATO as we have known it is over. The US won’t come to the defense of the other members if they are attacked. It’s time to move on.

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      20 hours ago

      This was Putin’s goal. Destabilize NATO. Crumbling US alliances is just the cherry on top.

      We are losing long friends and close allies.

      All because a plurality of voters want to feel powerful.

      Even if it’s for a brief moment.

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    23 hours ago

    Then we should stop allowing them using Rammstein as a Hub to meddle in Middle East and Africa.

    No cherrypicking

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        Depends what you mean? The dedicated pipelines and other stuff probably not very fast. Everything that is not bolted down, probably quite fast.

        But I don’t know if China and Putler appreciate a big US Base there.

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        Pápa is a US military airbase, I’m sure they can expand it for the US for thrice the money it should cost over the course of a few decades.

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    It seems ever less likely the US will participate in the NATO summit in The Hague. Too bad for Mark, though people living and working there will probably not mind.

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      Pretty sure that if a US military person crosses the threshold of the Hague they catch on fire

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      21 hours ago

      Heard King WA is going to throw a fancy dinner for the NATO leaders, so Donny might be interested to attend.

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          I think he is susceptible to all things pompous, so he might be interested. I think he knows the Netherlands have a royal house, i can remember Rutte being over at the white house in his first term and he thought the name " the kingdom of the Netherlands" was really great. But who knows!

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      Looking more and more likely to see US folks in the Hague for vastly different reasons in the future…

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    23 hours ago

    what even is their goal? just yet i refuse to believe there is none and that theyre just dumb, because theyre obviously not.

    america first for every price? but would it not be better to trade with us and have us as allies versus china and russia? we would spend our money and work together so its all more efficient.