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Trump Team Leaves Behind an Alliance in Crisis
The New York Times ^ | Feb. 16, 2025 Updated 11:02 a.m. ET | David E. Sanger and Steven Erlanger

Posted on 02/16/2025 1:51:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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NATO FA and FO.

It started in 1990 when James Baker promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch further eastward if Russia agreed to the reunification of Germany, thereby officially ending WW II.

1 posted on 02/16/2025 1:51:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
--- "...entering a new world where it was harder to defraud on the United States."
2 posted on 02/16/2025 1:53:02 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats are an historically illiterate pack of thugs. The scary part is that they know it and don’t care.


3 posted on 02/16/2025 1:53:38 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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“a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.”
We have enough domestic dependents, and we’re busy now shedding millions of foreign dependents gifted us by democrats and cheap labor rinos.
Europe. You’re emancipated.


4 posted on 02/16/2025 1:54:38 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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They need to figure it out. We have our own problems. They should probably conscript some of their Syrian refugees to staff their European army.


5 posted on 02/16/2025 1:55:32 PM PST by webheart (Kohms is what I call commies. They are not liberal or progressive. Eed Plebnista. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Crisis”

The new Democratic Party buzzword.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 1:56:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.

Why don't they ask our allies in Afghanistan how reliable we were under Biden.

7 posted on 02/16/2025 1:57:46 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for the US and President Trump)
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They may in crisis.....meh!


8 posted on 02/16/2025 1:59:32 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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F Europe. Get our troops out of Europe and get out of NATO. That Eurotrash isn’t worth saving and it certainly isn’t worth even one American life. Our existential threat today is Red China, not Russia. That’s where we need to be focusing on.


9 posted on 02/16/2025 2:00:52 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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Gorbachev did not negotiate well. He should have insisted on it as part of a proposal instead of taking Baker’s word for it.


10 posted on 02/16/2025 2:05:42 PM PST by nwrep
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Exactly. This was in crisis long before Trump ever got inot office.


11 posted on 02/16/2025 2:08:08 PM PST by AndyJackson
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NYT is such a good bird cage bottom. Don’t know why they even put print on it.


12 posted on 02/16/2025 2:08:45 PM PST by spincaster (i)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

MEGA. For starters, let the people vote. The war pig woke regimes will fall soon enough.


13 posted on 02/16/2025 2:09:31 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NATO and the UN have both long outlived their purpose.


14 posted on 02/16/2025 2:11:43 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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“European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.”

Sure because they could depend on Biden to fall asleep on the beach while the acting President caved in to what ever the EU wanted.


15 posted on 02/16/2025 2:12:34 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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First it was a “threat to our democracy” then a “constitutional crisis” now it’s just “crises”. Next up? Calamity? Sure Death for us all? I have poo pop britches?


16 posted on 02/16/2025 2:13:27 PM PST by albie (U)
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--- "MEGA. For starters, let the people vote. The war pig woke regimes will fall soon enough."

I suspect you are correct! Scholz is out. Macron soon. Starmer soon. And oddly, Orbán is among those who have clear electoral support. As the USAID NGOs must now cut budgetary corners big time, it is likely they will further weaken the corrupt elite.

17 posted on 02/16/2025 2:14:00 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: albie

Next, Mayhem!


18 posted on 02/16/2025 2:16:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They SHOULD be in a state of crisis!


19 posted on 02/16/2025 2:18:43 PM PST by farmguy ( )
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We saved their asses once and they rip us off.


20 posted on 02/16/2025 2:30:39 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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