“I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” he said, in comments published Wednesday.
How’s that three day ‘special operation’ going? You should ask him the next time you call him. In his published comments on Wednesday, Trump again rebuked the U.K., suggesting that the country’s Royal Navy was inadequate.
" You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work," he said.
My conservative neighbor said last week “when did he say he wanted us to leave NATO? He just wants them to pay their fair share!!”
The Republican national sport appears to be goalpost moving.
Sorry I couldn’t find an NFL one.
The real reason mainstream media is so unwilling to condemn rightwing nonsense is that it’d break modern physics: Rightwing goalposts constitute a perpetual motion machine. It’s a global conspiracy by Big Thermodynamics.
Then when he actually does leave NATO and your neighbor gets the updated talking points: “it’s good that he left NATO”
I believe he already thinks that, something like “we don’t need them“. What I have asked him is who he thinks would benefit from the US leaving NATO. The US? No. Europe? No. Russia, China? Yes. Iran? Yes. So why would we be doing that?
I can’t believe someone taught him how to use the phrase “paper tiger”.
Did they? Or did he just hear it a few times and thought it sounded like something he should say?
He’s basically an LLM that’s running on a SoundBlaster card.
We knew Trump would eff up the US’s economy, government, culture, and alliances. I think maybe we collectively underestimated how he and his zionist paymasters would screw up the entire world.
Still 35 of 48 months in his term left to go too, assuming he steps down peacefully at the end of his term, which he says he wont.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Trump has told us who he is, very clearly and in no uncertain terms, and we’d better believe him. If the midterms actually go the way people are expecting them to go, I’ll eat a MAGA hat (while celebrating the democratic victory) but sadly, I think people are going to be disappointed/enraged.
US president says he’s considering pulling ‘paper tiger’ U.S. out of NATO
Rule of projection.
What difference does it make? Does anyone believe the US as it stands nowadays would honour Article 5, when for once not triggered by the US itself?
Isn’t “paper tiger” a phrase in Chinese? I don’t watch a lot of trump, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard him use that phrase…
It’s a calque of Chinese. It has come to be used so often because of 1) its obvious meaning and 2) the increase in global wars.
Fucking please do.
If it’s a “paper tiger”, why have we fought so hard to keep Ukraine from obtaining membership? 🤔
Someone told him what ‘paper tiger’ means, or he watched that old Alan Alda movie, 'The Paper Lion" and got it all screwed up in the translation.
Assuming how much conflicts the USA participates in last time, it will be only an improvement to the overall stability and peace of the whole alliance.
It’s clear that it’s in the interest of the United States to do preemptive damage control in light of tensions between RUS and EU that could escalate into a war. The Americans simply don’t want to be dragged into anything, least of which conflicts they aggravated. Same logic as privatising profits and socialising losses.
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