Let’s be honest. Does anyone think that this president would honour Article Five? Presence of US military & nuclear sharing still has value to Europe, but its deterrent value is significantly reduced & falling. This is reckless, dangerous behaviour by the Trump administration.
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It can potentially be rebuilt or reformed later, but that's a hypothetical we don't have the luxury of mullling over right now.
We must adapt to the present realities and move forward, quickly.
De, Fr, Uk, Ca, Nd, No, Es - god willing they join and contribute assets
If he doesn’t believe anyone wise would honor article 5 then he would be a chump to honor article 5
So no, it’s clear he has disavowed the treaty
Trump does not like opposition so he will threaten and play false games.
But Ukraine don’t accept. Slava Ukraine.
Europe is with Canada, otherwise on their own.
If LePen and Farage achieve to get in any kind of government (baltics loosing nuclear deterrence) and Trump is still in power, Putin would be stupid to not immediately redirect all remaining troops to an attack on 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹.
Of course, everyone would expect more from the NATO allies in such a situation, but not doing anything actively is not a breach of the treaty
No more empty bits in his brain. Thats why he looks so stupid, when someone asks him something. His intellectual capacity is extremely limited. This makes him so easy to handle by dictators.
Donate to Ukraine
If the US couldn’t take a divided Vietnam, then Russia sure as fuck can’t take a united Ukraine.
Europe still has your back. #StandWithUkraine
He couldn't give a shit about anyone other than himself.
And on his position on Ukraine, even leaving aside the compassion & human decency part of supporting them, the economic argument for US stopping military aid doesn't make sense, because most of it goes to US defence contractors!
En nu?
Believe him. Europeans needs to boldly response. CANCEL all military purchase agreements w/US defense industries. CANCEL F35s & buy French and Swedish aviation.
But,the horrible questions are:
1)USA made arms,continue to work/be upgraded
2)buying from USA MIC still possible (replenish/new)
3)troops/nuclear weapons in Europe
4)LNG/oil to Europe
I sincerely hope the meetings "around" Macron didn't increase confusion among European leaders(in shock now)
The only question now is when?
And the missiles are American...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395
What's the probability we'll be able to swap/replenish missiles in 12 months time?
The US is making a partnership with ruSSia, so NATO became a charade, since it was created to stop ruSSia and it doesn't make sense without the US.
Moscow and St. Petersburg would be enough to effectively destroy russia.
UK nukes are under US control.
Russian incursion probably will be Baltic, normal missiles on St Petersburg and Murmansk is enough.
The responsible thing to do now is to declare a state of emergency so we can immediately spend on defence.
Not even 40 years later, Trump now seems more likely to try to conquer Europe than to defend it. Shameful.
Any nation that doesn’t either solely or as a club develop nuclear weapons is asleep at the wheel.
MAGA!
We need a nuke that covers all EU members & candidates, possibly NATO too.
Who governed Poland until recently?
We need nonproliferation.
Would DK give up Cph for the Baltics?
EU should hold it a nuclear deterrent.
EU need to take over HQ, ISR, intel roles from US-NATO in Eur, so we have intel.
The western alliance should form a new military alliance, with countries around the world such as Aus, Can, Mx, Jp, S-K, Taiwan, loosely connected to Nato and their treacherous members US, Hungary and Slovakia.
Sincere apologies to Europe.
It is parallel to what the Romano-British faced in 410.