European leaders push back against Washington’s proposal for a broader security framework, warning that Moscow cannot dictate the continent’s future as US-led peace negotiations over Ukraine prepare to resume in Abu Dhabi.
Nobody is cutting deals with Trump. You can’t trust he’ll honor it tomorrow, because he absolutely won’t. Better to wait for the next guy, and the new, post-MAGA America.
Will there be a next guy?
Will there be a next guy?
The grim reaper spares no man.
Yeah his name is putin 😆 Jk, next guy is the same guy aka John bezoz-zuckerberg-musk-nathenyahu-w/e saudi prince Smith.
Both sociopathic pieces of shit.
Psychopathic
He probably believes that by forcefully calling it big and beatiful he can will those qualities into existence. Classic billionaire mentality, if I am saying it, it must be correct. Plus a significant dose of college grade bullyism.
“if I am saying it, it must be correct” is not billionaire mentality. It’s mentality of abusive person.
he reminds me of a relative that has Alzheimers. Same obsessiveness, grudges over every perceived slight, making things up and getting irrationally mad about them, etc etc.
Same thing
billionaires tend to do this quite alot, there is certainly a correlation. I think there is also a causation, i.e among people with opportunities it is easier to become a billionaire if you are abusive.
Trying to unite all the good white nations? Definitely not white supremacist.
I am white and he is not trying to unite my nation. Ukraine is all white and he is definitely not trying to unite it. Unless conquest is considered unification.
He’s trying to unite Ukraine with Russia. Kumbaya, motherfucker, or else!
Heh, trump does not care about unifying or saving Ukraine, he just cared about not wasting american military ressources going after a war that was just a failed attempt at expanding nato closer to Russian borders. If that happened, they would be able to sneak in covert military members far more easily.
I meant this as in, Trump has shown preferentialism for white nations as far as accords he has signed. Whilst Obama was trying in his time to negotiate the trans pacific partnership in his time, Trump has been avoiding people who do not have the same skin color as him. It speaks a lot on his intelligence imo.
Any deal with trump should be rejected, as the rest of the world well knows. Just wait until that dishounourable degenerate gasbag goes away so we can all start using pens again.
It is an insecurity deal.
For an insecure administration.
To the complete surprise of absolutely no one with the cognitive capability to put a pair of pants on.
God, Trump is so excited about this too. Every time he talks about it I get this sinking feeling like he’s going to order the US military to side with Russia over Europe and Ukraine.
At least now the US has a house and senate that might actually do their job and act as a check on unfettered executive power.
Not until January.
True, but it’s far too late to mobilize that sort of force for a serious offensive. Like we’re not already spread thin in the Gulf of Hormuz and running out of defensive interceptors. 🙄
An entire additional carrier strike group has already been mobilized and en route for a few days now
That’s got to be one of the largest total US Navy deployments since WW2
To Hormuz? Or to Ukraine?
Or… they’ll do the standard democrat thing, and be totally ineffective. Chuck’ll write an angry letter, but still support the bullshit.
I condemn it!
I condom it?
I condone it* ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
Yes, we are soon about to find out if the system is truly as completely rigged as I think it is. Only truly naive people would ever believe that shadow money and deep state corruption only lives on one side of the ballot. When the odds are as fully and completely stacked in your favor as they are in the return-on-investment you get from political corruption, it doesn’t only just make sense to corrupt both sides, it would be absolutely blindingly stupid not to. Hedging your bets always pays off, and you win no matter what. It becomes impossible to lose. Which explains why nothing ever seems to change meaningfully. We get some theatrics and some token changes to maintain the illusion but nothing ever really changes, because picking the right party or the wrong party isn’t actually your issue.
You’re looking for a far more competent conspiracy than evidence shows ever has existed.
There’s definitely problems with many Democrats listening to the “political consulting class” and to rich donors, but a lot of the new ones elected are precisely those who are mad at those older politicians and donors, etc, who don’t intend to hold back. A lot of them are challenging Schumer in public right now.
If you want things to happen, go and publicly back the ones who are ready for a fight
Most of those “poison pill” politicians like Platner just got kicked out
https://san.com/cc/why-super-pacs-with-gop-ties-are-donating-to-democratic-candidates/
not if fetterman, schumer, hakeem gets in the way.
Right, which is why getting rid of those three - among others - should be one of the most immediate priorities.
If the USA and Russia team up, it gets pretty precarious here in Canada. One to the south, one to the north, and if the USA grabs Greenland, to the east and west too.
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He will but at least now Congress might stop him
Only thing he has to do is pull back the troops stationed in Europa
wonder does he have a diaper on 24/7, how often does he change it. hes known to not even be aware that he shat himself while wearing it.
I strongly suspect he isn’t the one changing it. Cleaning up the shit he causes is not exactly a defining Trump-characteristic.
The man is demented
Has been for years. No one seems to care.
You don’t even have to dignify him with a response at this point. Just say that your looking forward to the working with the next legitimate leader of the United States
Gotta refute it or the orange guy will think they agreed.
He’s still got the football for the next two years…for now.
I guarantee his handlers replaced it with a football phone some time ago, and I doubt he’s noticed. Even when it rings
They literally took the suit case and have given the dumbass a football shaped phone with a nuclear sticker on it
Exactly! You think Trump knows what it actually looks like? It’s called a football, so football shaped.
Although I doubt they even cared enough to find an actual nuclear sticker. I bet they found an old Mr. Yuk sticker in a drawer somewhere and slapped that on, knowing Trump would never notice
This isn’t a Trump thing. The EU is simply no longer a major power. The next leader of the US might be more polite about it, but they will also put Europe on the menu, so to say.
Weird then that Russia, China and the US are all so concerned over what the EU is doing?
If the EU is a fading power what about the US who’s strength lay in the quality of their logistics matched with a vast array of potent allies? So much of their institutional knowledge has been lost, stripped out by a man who thought that testosterone levels made for a better military. Thats not to even mention the cimplete destruction of so many civilian institutions because of doge. All their allies goodwill has been pissed away because they looked at the sweetheart deals they were getting and demanded more and more and more. Their economy was bet entirely on AI.
Then what of Russia? It’s economy is bleeding out much like it’s military and diplomatically it has become a pariah.
China is doing better than Russia or the US by a considerable margin but it has it’s own problems and is staring down the barrel of demographic collapse.
The EU is not without it’s flaws but I find it strange in the current geopolitical landscape to look at the EU and declare it the fading power.
Weird then that Russia, China and the US are all so concerned over what the EU is doing?
The EU has a lot of money and resources that can be taken over (mostly by the US, Russia might get a deal to keep eastern Europe neutral).
A huge advantage the EU had was that they had good relations with all three superpowers. They had Russian fuel, Chinese components, the protection of the US military, and access to the markets of all three. That was an insanely lucrative position to be in. Now, the EU no longer has access to Russian or Gulf fuel, and must buy much more expensive fuel from the US. (A deal with Canada could help here.) It has started a trade war with China, one in which ‘the cards are made in China’. And now it has to either accept an unequal treaty with the US (less bad in the short run), or break relations with the last of the superpowers (probably the less bad choice in the long run).
Another problem is the loss of the (neo)colonies. Many European countries had political control, or at least economic influence, over countries in Asia and Africa. But this weakens as those countries develop, and with China expanding their relations through the Belt and Road initiative, these countries can now play off the EU / IMF against China to get better deals, or even switch to Chinese loans (very useful if China is already their biggest trading partner).
As for the US and Russia, yes they are also weakening, but they started off higher so they have longer to fall before they lose the superpower status. They also have the two biggest nuclear arsenals on the planet (~1700 deployed warheads each), more than six times the size of third-placed France (~300).
The Art of the Deal
The Shart of the Deal
And one of the new Congress’s first orders of business is to shut this treason down.
What needs to be remembered with the pedotator (thanks stumu415@lemmy.zip, I love it) is that his handlers work for the largest arms manufacturing companies / country in the world. Destabilizing shit is profit. Glad to see more and more of the world not putting up with the crap.
Ditch ‘NATO’ (It’s dead Jim) military spending requirements via % of GDP, Europe just needs enough the fend off a Russia that’s mostly spent on Ukraine (which should be heartily supported) for a few years until Putin inevitably gets defenestrated.
Two years of un-neutered Trump was enough to finally break Pax Americana, I guess we’re moving towards Pax Sino or whatever it gets called. Sure would be nice if the middle powers got together and headed that off. Much as I like the concept of the U.N. the veto powers hobble it as a true vehicle of international unity, maybe everyone should join the EU?
Here’s hoping the Dems actually keep the cheeto clown tied up in serious litigation and red tape for the next two years and the demented fool doesn’t get to release the nukes. Actually effective impeachment sure would be nice. Doesn’t he look tired?
Ditch ‘NATO’ (It’s dead Jim) military spending requirements via % of GDP, Europe just needs enough the fend off a Russia
Trump’s biggest complaint about NATO is the lack of spending commitments from other countries, but realistically why should the other powers spend money on defense when, entirely of their own volition, the US seems to cover it all? This is what the Republicans cannot answer, they chose to spend eye watering amounts of money on their own military, no one forced them to do this, they could have funded social care but instead they went with more bombs.
All of their complaints should be referred back to their own policy decisions.
No arguments beyond ‘the US seems to cover it all’ is a trap.
The way I see it, the EU is building up its own defense industry, which it needs to do if they leave NATO. So one way or another, the defense spending needs to be up. Although leaving NATO would give more freedom in how to spend that money.
If you’re actually spending for defense, and not force proejction, you don’t need to spend more. You just need drones and nukes.
You would need to spend money on those drones and nukes, right? Maybe not to the same extent though.
An independent defense industry is mostly a separate matter imo. Even if you want to keep the militaries the same size, you still need to invest in the local industry for the sake of domestic production.
France has nukes.
Drones are cheap. See Iran.
the EU is building up its own defense industry, which it needs to do if they leave NATO. So one way or another, the defense spending needs to be up.
Seems reasonable, would really like it if world spending on weapons went down, hopefully the spike from being self sufficient is transitory.
I hope the same. Imo defense spending is pretty useless for society. Except for maybe the development of new tech, but that can be done more efficiently by spending the money directly on that anyways.
What does europe do in the new world when china invades taiwan? Nothing?
What does it do abiut russian drone attacks supported by china?
Realistically, nobody will do much if China invades Taiwan. The 9nly reasons they don’t is first the example of the shitshow in Ukraine (a smaller power can resist a grater one for a long time) and economic (collapse of the whole semiconductor industry).
This whole presidenture would be so hilarious is he couldn’t do any damage to other people and our allies.
I bet Russians and Chinese laughing out loud how he is destroying the West.
I’m glad that EU stopped with trying to please him. That never worked.
China, at least, has to be thrilled. Trump ceded so many economic sectors to China. EVs, solar power, nuclear power, among others
Not only that, but his war on Iran pushed the world towards those technologies much faster than it otherwise would have
Trump only really gave Putin a bit more time to draw out his war on Ukraine
Yup, I’m sure China is over the moon. A lot of his decisions have basically just boiled down to “hand {soft power} directly to China.” Because the slimy sack doesn’t understand the concept of long-term planning and soft power. Hell, he doesn’t even understand quarterly business planning, because he bankrupts every business he gets his tiny mitts on.
Still not convinced that’s not what he’s doing on purpose. Thats what mob bosses would do around new York in the 70’s and 80s. I think it was called a bust out. Just he’s doing it with iran and russia.
Like he’s just got the Iranians to go along with it, or some group or iranians, and in the end they and kushner in sauid arabia get the gulf, with all of the US bases destroyed like the sand nations want. And with the entire conversation getting turned in the media into being about israel all the fucking time, they managed to get domestic support to stop wanting to funding them, so Israel would be out if the picture. And then now they’re just liquidating everything to the rich guys, with the bullshit stock manipulation and scams.
I think he understands long-term planning, he just doesn’t care about it. He only cares about money, power, and in a distant 3rd, his own legacy
As long as a problem won’t happen before he’s out of office, he doesn’t care
Half of those are due to cultural differences.
EVs, Americans wants big shiny difficult to build thing. Chinese wants small, simple, effective car.
Hence American EVs started with big stationwagons, while Chinese EVs began with small hatchbacks. Then they built the larger models after, ontop of the knowledge from the smaller builts.
Solar power, American power grids always favoured reliable production output and never had a boner on for renewables due to the peak and no production cycles. And arguably, the reason everyone is talking about renewables again is due to improvement within battery tech, which positions China nicely due to their willingness to exploit rare earth materials
Been sayin’ since the 90s that the 21st is China’s century. Didn’t expect an American President to put his foot on the fucking gas to get there.
Didn’t Xi insult him to his face and he was too thick to realize it?
More of a “back the fuck up” thing:
"Donald Trump spent Thursday lavishing praise on Xi Jinping, while the Chinese leader used his visit to the White House to deliver a power move with a warning for America to stay in its lane.
In front of Trump, and for the second time in four months, Xi urged the two countries to avoid the so-called “Thucydides Trap”—the historical theory that tensions between a rising power and an established one can spiral into war."
I was thinking of the time he told trump the US was a country in decline
What more than Ukraine can they carve up? Russia can’t conquer the EU. Even the Baltics, how could Russia enter while the EU has air superiority?
I don’t think Russia would attack the EU either, but air superiority is rather outdated in the age of missiles and drones.
Russia can’t conquer the EU.
A Russia/US alliance could.
They could maybe try to scavenge the ashes. Us and Russia might have enough nukes to destroy the world 100 times but both France and UK have enough for 3 or 4.
In theory, but what would be there to conquer for the US? With Blackrock they already control the companies.
The US has just pushed Russia out of Syria and Armenia. Why would Russia cooperate? A Russian alliance is only a threat to the European public so that they accept the American dominance.
To what end though?
Imeperialism?
Sounds like there’s no details and it’s a refutation of the entire concept.
The initiative has immediately drawn objections from European officials, who insist that the continent’s security arrangements are already established and cannot be renegotiated over their heads.
They’re not even willing to hear him out and I’m very much in favour of this development.
