• nohaybanda [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      61 year ago

      The Euros are convinced that us-foreign-policy will come through and spare them. It will be interesting watching them realize that’s not quite the case.

  • AutoTL;DRB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    11 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    With a divided electorate and gridlock in Congress, the next American president could easily become consumed by manifold challenges at home — before even beginning to address flashpoints around the world, from Ukraine to the Middle East.

    In campaign speeches, Trump remains skeptical of organizations such as NATO, often lamenting the billions the U.S. spends on the military alliance whose support has been critical to Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion.

    Politics at University College London, said that whoever wins the presidential race, the direction of travel will be the same – toward a multipolar planet in which the United States is no longer “the indisputable world superpower.”

    Germany is the second-largest donor of military aid to Kyiv, behind the U.S., but Scholz recently told German weekly Die Zeit that the country couldn’t fill any gap on its own if “the U.S.A. ceased to be a supporter.”

    China, where leaders’ initial warmth toward Trump soured into tit-for-tat tariffs and rising tensions, little changed under Biden, who continued his predecessor’s tough stance toward the United States’ strategic rival.

    Associated Press writers Jiwon Song in Seoul, South Korea, Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin, Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia, Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, Nomaan Merchant in Washington, and Jill Colvin and Michelle Price in New York contributed to this story.


    The original article contains 1,315 words, the summary contains 216 words. Saved 84%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • Kissinger’s more of an egoist of image than a realist about it

      Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      6
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Henry Kissinger

      How I’m missing yer

      You’re the Doctor of my dreams

      With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare

      And your machiavellian schemes

      I know they say that you are very vain

      And short and fat and pushy but at least you’re not insane

      Henry Kissinger

      How I’m missing yer

      And wishing you were here

      Henry Kissinger

      How I’m missing yer

      You’re so chubby and so neat

      With your funny clothes and your squishy nose

      You’re like a German parakeet

      All right so people say that you don’t care

      But you’ve got nicer legs than Hitler

      And bigger tits than Cher

      Henry Kissinger

      How I’m missing yer

      And wishing you were here

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    27
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    The first Trump administration stress-tested the bonds between the U.S. and its allies, particularly in Europe. Trump derided the leaders of some friendly nations, including Germany’s Angela Merkel and Britain’s Theresa May, while praising authoritarians such as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. He has called China’s Xi Jinping “brilliant” and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán “a great leader.”

    This is so stupid. Trump was the one who started a trade war with China. Him praising Xi doesn’t mean shit.

    Secondly, despite claiming to be anti-west, Erdogan and Orban are both pro-West allies and will fall in line under pressure. Both countries are NATO members too btw. Why is such a democratic organization like NATO having “authoritarian” countries as members?

    Also why is there no mention of Modi? Both Biden and Trump have been more than friendly with him.

    Trump’s Israel policy is no different. He is more belligerent towards Iran.

    In campaign speeches, Trump remains skeptical of organizations such as NATO, often lamenting the billions the U.S. spends on the military alliance whose support has been critical to Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion.

    Rhetoric and actions are entirely different. Trump knows very well that Ukraine War is ultimately beneficial for the U.S. and the MIC.

    Another thing to keep in mind, U.S. is NATO, without the U.S there is no NATO.

    He warned: “We must realize that the EU cannot be an economic and civilizational giant and a dwarf when it comes to defense, because the world has changed.”

    That has been the status of Europe since end of cold war, a puppet of American capitalism, nothing more. And nothing will change unless there is a socialist revolution or something.

    • @forrgott@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      01 year ago

      Wait what now? Trump knows something about foreign policy? Not a chance, bub. Trump doesn’t know squat. Other than being an effective distraction from his handlers so the ones actually pulling the strings can stay out of the public’s general awareness. But, then again, he’s stupid enough to think he matters, so I doubt he even realizes he has handlers.

      Trump doesn’t do strategy. Period. He’s dumber than a stack of bricks, and you know it. So, no, there is absolutely no ulterior motive. There is no plan. He has no ability to think ahead. He has never had to take any actual responsibility, and is therefore utterly incapable of anything other rash impulsive stupidity.

      Giving that loser any credit just makes you sound like a complete idiot. Just don’t. Please.

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      201 year ago

      Rhetoric and actions are entirely different

      Yes, but libs can’t tell a difference. They don’t even need different rhetoric, just tone usually.

  • @BustinJiber@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    191 year ago

    It’s going to be this way every election, ain’t it? Basically two year election cycle of Trump once again running, all the fears of him winning, then he looses, and we get next 4 years of him talking shit and “raising concerns”.

  • @ULS@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    81 year ago

    Citizens think it’s becoming unreliable regardless of who’s president.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    link
    fedilink
    481 year ago

    Europeans realizing they’re not America’s core interest after spending two years talking up a war with Russia is never going to stop being hilarious.

  • @Geobloke@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    121 year ago

    When can I, an international with an interest in the US election, commit money to a political party? Or do I need to be a corporation?