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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 31 points 17 hours ago

So let's recap...

You gave NATO and all your allies the middle finger by cutting their budget, tariffing them, insulting them, attempting to bully them into complying with your will, and threatening to invade some of them...

You seemingly forgot their contributions to America's previous pointless wars in the Middle East by saying they "weren't on the front lines", when most of them had sent people who lost their lives...

You end US funding for Ukraine's defense because you didn't think it was your problem, and you told Europe that it's their job to foot the bill...

You give the UN and NATO the middle finger with this farcical and extortionary "Board of Peace"...

And now you launch a pointless invasion of Iran and complain that NATO, a defensive organization is "rejecting" you by not participating in it?

Get fucked, old man!

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 4 points 16 hours ago

Just yesterday, Danish media posted a description of how they planned to blow up airport runways to slow down an American invasion of Greenland. And how other European countries sent soldiers to help defend.

Trump complaining about Europe now not helping in Iran is some major chutzpah...

[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

He's the spoiled little rich kid who comes over to the sandbox while others are building a sand castle, proceeds to destroy the sand castle, then kicks his ball over the fence and wants everyone to come help him get his ball back.

MAGA elected the most little bitch ass spoiled rich kid on earth.

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

He wasn't even that rich anymore. It was all theater. His hotels were in a sad state. His scams weren't working anymore. It was all almost over.

The election saved his ass.

Now he's rich, after grabbing anything he can get his hands on. Even in his first term he was quoted as saying that it was all "his money" now. All his debts are gone, all the banks folded. All the big companies as well, because they saw that they could "use" him to also get more money.

If he was a spoiled rich kid before, think what he is now. He sees himself as a god.

[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

The only silver lining, and I really mean only, is that he's so small intellectually that he'll (hopefully) never see it through to it's full potential.

As long as they keep the chimp away from the nukes, we should survive him, so that we can then be torn apart by climate change.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I mean, it's kind of hard to argue with results. Fraud convictions and imminent sentencing turned into another chance to loot the public coffers because dumb-dumbs think the Gaza genocide wouldn't also continue to happen under him.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Israel forced him into it, there is a reason we are calling it Operation Epstein's Fury. Because they have the tapes of the president, and ivy league aristocrats, fucking children.

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Someone warn Spain and Egypt in case he gets confused about his straights.

[–] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

As always, "Trump says" is garbage headlining. Means about as much as "Third-grader blames family dog for misssing homework".

NATO is a deffensive trearty... if the US wanted help with its imperialism, they should have false flagged a 9/11-like event before starting the war. Even if it happened now, it would only be the US' war for being the ones to start it.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Fuck that dickhat and his hangman posse, it's his fucking mess.

[–] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

He should star on another reality tv show: The Biggest Loser

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 2 points 16 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese

Have to make sure the Internet doesn't run out of bit, by using mangled English!

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

One of those where just one use of the word "and" would've helped.

[–] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

Defense organization want not to help in the attack war.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

What a fucking toooooooooooool to the power of infinity. Same goes for supporters and enablers.

[–] hellequin67@lemmy.zip 70 points 1 day ago (4 children)

NATO was created as a defensive measure to present a combined defence in the event of being attacked.

It was NOT created to provide back up to a wannabe Napoleon with tiny dick syndrome because he decides to start a war on his own.

[–] Poteau_Poutre@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Show a bit of respect for people with tiny dicks, they don't deserve to be compared to this madman

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

… to cover his previous child raping activities

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[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NATO's job is to protect member states from Russian aggression. Trump has zero concept of history.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump's Pentagon insisted on a go-it-alone approach to Iran at the outset. This wasn't NATO's choice it was Hegseth's choice.

Even fucking Chimp-in-Chief Bush Jr had the decency to assemble the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq. Rubio couldn't be bothered to get the fucking Turks and Saudis on board, and they've hated Iran since the Ottoman Empire fell.

Absolutely bonkers to talk about this as some kind of NATO failure to comply when the treaty was never invoked to begin with. Doubly so, when you consider how many NATO bases are still ultimately being used by US forces to get hardware into position.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The Ottomans were at war with Iran for like 3 or 4 centuries before Turkey was even formed. And they mostly lost.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

It's the same picture. Just ask anyone in Istanbul

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

He's been rejected by everybody he's ever met. That's probably why he's a rapist and a predator.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 250 points 2 days ago (4 children)

He can ask "Board of Peace" for help

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] manxu@piefed.social 44 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That was one labored sentence! I cannot be the only one that parsed it as: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO (while) most allies (are) to join mission ..."

Instead, it wants to say: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO and most allies (in his desire for them) to join mission ..."

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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 173 points 2 days ago (18 children)

What does he think NATO is? Isn’t the treaty to protect against aggression, not be the aggressors?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

He must have believed the russian propaganda about them being imperialist aggressors or something...

[–] h3ron@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

NATO is not just bureaucracy, it's an alliance. You CAN ask allies for help, but you are supposed to treat them as such.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 132 points 2 days ago (4 children)

He believes he is the king of the world and NATO is a human resources investment similar to the many departments of Trump Kingdom LLC.

Far as he's concerned, who cares if that's not their job or intention. He's paying the bills damn it - he pay the bill, plebs do what he says. It's really that simple.

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[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But I thought that the “greatest military in the world” wouldn’t need help for a war that has “already been won”?

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Reads like a text chat between an incel and a woman on the internet.


Trump: You are stupid. You are ugly and fat. I'm so much better than you ever will be and also fuck all our agreements. Null and void. And you owe me $13.47 for that coffee I paid for.

Them: stares confused . Then watches their economies be negatively impacted by trump.

Trump: hey we are buddies right? Come help me bomb civilians.

Them: no thanks.

Trump: you are a stupid fat ugly bitch and I don't need you anyway.

Trump (next day): how's it going? . So when are you deploying your troops to help out at the straight?

Them: blocks trump

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[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

"hey, you, fuck you! also, I'll take your shit. also, come help me pls! but also, fuck you." - tronald dump

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 93 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"I would also like to remind you that the U.S. and Israel did not consult us before the war, and that Washington explicitly stated at the start of the war that European assistance was neither necessary nor desired," Kornelius said.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (11 children)

"Guys! GUYS! You really depend on the oil that flows through the Strait so come and help me open it!"

"But your actions closed it in the first place."

"OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WON'T HELP! :`("

Fuck me, this is what international politics and diplomacy have become.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago

He's being"rejected" by a group that he has spent the last year shitting on?

Gee, what a surprise...

[–] comador@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago

Still too big for this fool.

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