“Trump’s transactional diplomacy sends a message to allies that the United States cannot be trusted to help its friends or honor its obligations. And it tells his adversaries that he is willing to give up long-term strategic interests for short-term wins…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w... - ThreadSky

johnsipher.bsky.social • 1 day ago

“Trump’s transactional diplomacy sends a message to allies that the United States cannot be trusted to help its friends or honor its obligations. And it tells his adversaries that he is willing to give up long-term strategic interests for short-term wins…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/world/europe/trump-us-ukraine-mineral-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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kevingrobinson.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a Faustian Bargain that if signed he has no intwntion of honouring and will leave Ukraine worse off.

trypax.charityweb.net•1 day ago

Though, it looks like this is another case of Trump's adversary getting something for nothing, like Canada and Mexico have done. A report on NPR last night pointed out that that the deal gets Trump to push for investments in Ukraine and security support in exchange for uncertain future benefits.

johnsipher.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all show. Fake toughness covers up real weakness.

jp063.bsky.social•1 day ago

Big picture:

A criminal oligarchy is attempting to cannibalize the U.S government, defense posture, and world order.

It’s been going on for years, but not at this scale or level of ambition.

The consequences are dire. Look at Argentina as a trial run.

kmorris24.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump will betray Ukraine. He will not honor whatever protections for Ukraine are written into the agreement.

tagohio.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s not just Trump. The American voter can no longer be trusted to support serious candidates. Seems like they prefer lying fools.

hellen4ever.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right

alexkburch.bsky.social•1 day ago

GOP is pro-war crimes, pro-fascist, pro-invasions.
Remember, Putin wants Alaska back. They gonna oblige?

https://bsky.app/profile/denverr.bsky.social/post/3lj2hwe3xlk2d

alexkburch.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s always been a mafia-style shakedown with trump. Decades of his actions + Manafort was our warning that trump/GOP align with Kremlin.
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmackay.bsky.social/post/3lj4i44nxzs2j

marker36.bsky.social•1 day ago

Allies?

akajuhlz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Clearly coercion of the worst kind.

jjr3.bsky.social•1 day ago

The U.S. made the biggest mistake in its history by electing this cretinous grifter Trump. He is so pathetically uninformed, used to his life of rape, grift, bankruptcy that we’ll have to do all we can to reign him in for four years then return to normal and hope we don’t enter WW3 in the meantime.

marker36.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump and Trumpism has been in our face for about 15 years now. An entire generation knows no other type of politics. Going to be a tough road.

frenchie-66.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the Gilded age all over again.

marker36.bsky.social•1 day ago

At least the robber barons built useful stuff that lasted like railways.

richierichard.bsky.social•1 day ago

With the mob, you actually have the offer of actual protection. With Trump you get nothing.

hellen4ever.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, you get nothing.

koblitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s the one fact Trump communicates clearly and truthfully: our allies cannot rely on the United States. The sooner our allies realize this and begin planning accordingly, the safer they will be.

riverane.bsky.social•1 day ago

Finally, not just me seeing the simple for what it’s: simple mobster racket. Plurality of🇺🇸’s are very good people, they can’t see this for understable reason. BUT, when you’ve lived outside the 🇺🇸 or (like me) raised elsewhere, COPOTUS’s blatant mob squeeze’s bring back terrible memories.

easterbrooksj.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also sent a pretty huge message to the world about the values and character of the American voters

realsasquatch.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you offered Trump $10M to define the word strategy, your money would be 100% safe.

pinkythebunny.bsky.social•1 day ago

It seems Russia's hybrid warfare was far more successful than anyone knew/could prove. Now that the American social media owners are on board and trump is protecting Tik Tok, can anything be done?
Could white hat hackers & saboteurs take the disinformation infrastructure down?

acmeleader.bsky.social•1 day ago

No ally should trust this administration even if there’s a quid pro quo. Everyone should know by now that he doesn’t honor contracts or promises.

helena824.bsky.social•1 day ago

The message was already sent many times. This just last nail in the coffin to burry any trust to the US by anybody. Looks like even by its own people, by the way.

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