LOL
Posted on 03/26/2025 3:08:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two, and a lasting one. As one expert puts it, "Trumpism will outlast his presidency". But which nations are equipped to step to the fore as the US stands back?
... Donald Trump is the first US President since World War Two to challenge the role that his country set for itself many decades ago. And he is doing this in such a way that, to many, the old world order appears to be over - and the new world order has yet to take shape.
The question is, which nations will step forward? And, with the security of Europe under greater strain than at any time almost in living memory, can its leaders, who are currently scrabbling around, find an adequate response?
President Trump's critique of the post-1945 international order dates back decades. Nearly 40 years ago he took out full-page advertisements in three US newspapers to criticise the United States' commitment to the defence of the world's democracies.
"For decades, Japan and other nations have been taking advantage of the United States," he wrote in 1987. "Why are these nations not paying the United States for the human lives and billions of dollars we are losing to protect their interests?
"The world is laughing at America's politicians as we protect ships we don't own, carrying oil we don't need, destined for allies who won't help."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
have no eternal allies, and have no perpetual enemies
“Scrabbling”?! Trump ain’t got no time to play Scrabble with European leaders.
If Europe wants peace in their lands let them be the ones who maintain it. We’ve gone bankrupt trying to hold the world together. It’s somebody else’s turn at bat.
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Europe cannot tolerate an anti LGBTQ Russia right next to them
But look on the bright side: Once Europe becomes Muslim we can actually have better relations with them than current Europe
By "greatest crisis," you're talking about the Islamic takeover of Western Europe, right, Allan?
Allan?
Allan?
the “writer”...42 years with BBC...no surprise:
Wikipedia: Allan Little
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Little
In an odd way you are right. It will require a STRONG America though. The only peace to be had with Islam is one of strength and force. The moment Islam senses a weakness or advantage they terrorize to get their way, as long as they fear you they can be worked with, their is no collegiate cooperation with Islam.
LOL you sound like Zzelllinnsskyy: “I’m not playing cards.”
White liberal ‘elites’ of the EU are ingrates and lowlife scammers. Not one thin dime for the jerkoffs. And while we’re at it - let’s get out of NATO.
Trump is destroying the globalist New World Order, and these grifting scum are infuriated about it.
He knows the globalists are also in on the trump takedown all along, his way of saying thank you
BTTT
Hey Little!
Trump is carrying out the wishes of the people who elected him. Get over your insane contempt for him.
President Trump is not saying anything I had not been saying since the early 1990s. The Cold War ended in 1991. Our large troop presence in Europe should have ended with it. Let the Yurps start paying for their own defense for a change.
Trump has blown up Globalism (i.e., the movement consisting of elites trying to take over the world)
Daddy kicked his layabout kids out of the house and told them to go get a job.
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