Nato leaders have informally agreed not to mention the football World Cup to Donald Trump for fear of irritating the US president at a crucial time for the military alliance.
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In the first open acknowledgment of the strategy, the Belgian prime minister, Bart De Wever, told reporters in Ankara he would not be discussing his country’s 4-1 win over the US earlier this week.
Look, can everyone please do their best not to annoy the bumbling pedophile? Thank you - your cooperation is appreciated.
Beyond embarrassing.
to the point where i actually loled at this post. i hate it
If they irritate him it might raise his blood pressure and that’s bad for someone so fucking old. Do it
Do it. Do it. Do it!
I double dog dare ya
There’s no way he isn’t on blood pressure medication, maybe 2 or 3 different ones.
Narrowly Avoiding Tantrums Organization
And they won’t mention 12 year old girls as that might get him too excited.
Pussies. Given the opportunity I’d piss him off every chance I had.
As enticing as that sounds, youre seriously putting peoples lives at risk to do so.
the world has to learn to do without the US sooner or later. might as well be sooner.
if they’re planning on that, then I agree with the play. if they’re not planning on that and want to continue with the US in as big a role as previously, then fuck 'em.
of course, I don’t know which it is. but it’s obviously the right play to make meaningless moves to appease him.
That’s a him problem not a me problem. Also perhaps that would help getting him impeached
You mean that’s a the people at risk problem
He’s already hurting people. It’s beyond time to start pissing him off. And stop stroking his fragile ego
Nah, I’m a middle aged white straight overweight male. What minority is he going to punish? Magats? I say bring it on then.
white straight male
So basically one of the last people to feel it if he DOES punish people.
Probably.
Opportunity to do the funniest fucken thing ever, lame.
Why are all the world’s leaders kissing his ass? Why doesn’t anyone have the balls to tell him no, he’s an idiot?
They all have the same billionaire handlers.
He is the commander-in-chief of the world’s largest military and second largest nuclear stockpile on Earth. Despite the United States’ economic woes, he also wields great influence over a massive trade partner with the EU.
Until the Europeans can successfully do the leverage most of their integration with the United States military and economy, the pragmatic thing to do is only pick fights where it’s absolutely necessary.
Personally, for what it’s worth, I too wouldn’t want to seed one millimeter of rhetorical ground to what is clearly the worst president of all time. However, I do understand the tactical decision being made.
Isn’t it lovely how headlines are about sports while Europeans are seemingly still committing to the goal of spending five fucking percent of their gdp for their military? Schools, hospitals, universities, railways… all that will suffer for tanks and the headlines are still just about how somebody doesn’t mention that ludicrous display last night to some jerk.
While it sucks, Europe has to do it. It’s not threatened just by Russia anymore, but by US itself these days
Drumpf is literally every other day threatening to invade Denmark, an EU member for no reason whatsoever. It’s quite insane
Also, you never know who Americans could elect next time, or time after that. Maybe someone even more unhinged.
Europe must be able to defend itself
Working towards 5% isn’t really that stupid for most European countries as long as Russia is spending as much money as it can on weapons. It will only become a waste of money after the implosion of the Russian oligarchy. I am not in favor of spending that much money of things that kill stuff, but it makes total sense to continue doing that for now.
No, you need to be able to defend against the United States. They are the biggest world threat right now. The leadership is incompetent, but they have an overwhelming advantage in firepower and are very dangerous.
The US in it’s current form is definitely a threat to Europe in many ways, but not a military one. Not even in the case of an armed conflict about Greenland. I could see the leadership ordering to, but I can’t see the soldiers on the ground shoot at people they’ve been training and fighting with their entire career. There will be mass defection on the side of the US if they are ordered to shoot (by then former) nato-allies. Unlike Russian ‘soldiers’, the fear of torture/execution will not motivate them.
They will definitely shoot European troops. Maybe there are some that wouldn’t, but they would be branded pussies and punished. The vast majority will. They will fire on American citizens.
Read up on your military history. That comradery is common at the start of so many past conflicts and they have a playbook.
They will handpick the first few groups of soldiers to go in specifically selected to be comfortable killing unarmed European civilians and soldiers alike. Oops, they commited an atrocity, my bad, I’ll throw them in jail. But before that, the other side seeks their revenge and now the regular American soldiers who would have refused to fight a few days ago are getting slammed every nasty which-way and fight back. Both sides learn the other side is pure evil, and never notice the brass pulling the strings.
They’re scared of losing the American security guarantee and this is what it costs them to create a comparable EU guarantee.
Just remember that American security guarantee came with all sorts of expensive economic strings they will no longer have to deal with.
Neville Chamberlain.
You have to protect the Orange Pedo from his failures.
When babies cry and whine it is very annoying and just disrupts productivity. Therefore people will often alter their behavior when around them to ensure a quiet and productive atmosphere.
No one up set Shitler, the weakest loser on the planet/republicans wet dream
it’s unfortunate the meetings weren’t in brussels at nato hq.
Imagine all of the Belgium delegation coming in wearing their national team shirts and crowing “rescind this!” at Trump.
While everyone else runs around like headless chickens.
Honestly, that would have been fucking hilarious.
