JD Vance said that ‘American power comes with certain strings attached’

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  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Is the presumptive VP speedrunning boy who cried wolf? If the US is going to pull out of NATO, I doubt it’ll be over pennyante shit like 𝕏itter regulation.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    World Wars ‘hero’ pass revoked.

    Go fuck yourselves. Misinformation and money over world peace, fuck you and everyone who thinks this was something you could dismiss for a lying fascist to tank your economy and kill your neighbours while killing people elsewhere.

    • Korkki@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Yay for the American oligarchs

      Yay, for Europeans banking everything from security, economy, foreign policy to continuation of transatlantism and therefore making every US problem and shakeup our problem. Not to even speak of the many occasions when US tries to use it’s power over Europe to shank Europe for US’s own gain.

  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    DO IT!

    Just look at the TPP. The US tried to write the rules and the rest of the partners said, “No.” The US said, “Screw you guys, we’re going home!” and stormed off in a snit assuming the deal would fall apart without them but it didn’t and it ended up being better without the US imperialist bullshit. Then, US farmers realized that they were getting fucked because the US wasn’t part of the deal ([1], [2], [3]) and the US came back demanding to be let in and the US imperialist bullshit restored to the agreement. Once again the partnerd said, “No”.

    Let’s let the US leave whatever they want to leave, renegotiate everything without them, then only let them return under the new terms. The world will be a much better place in the end.

    EDIT: Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the TPP because the partners wouldn’t be bullied into accepting one-sided andi-competitive, anti-consumer protections for US industry and a dispute resolution process that favoured the US but that the US would ignore when it lost.

    • schema@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Yeah, what Trump voters don’t realize is that the US withdrawing from NATO would mean an end to most of their soft power. You can have the biggest and most modern army in the world, but if you give up your bases all over the world you severely limit your way to project that power.

      As opposed to what the propaganda talking points say, the US doesn’t have these bases to protect others out of the kindness of their hearts. It’s to project their military power, to be ready to strike within minutes, no matter where. This is an incredibly powerful position in the world. Giving those up will of course cost them less in short term, but in the long term it’s probably one of the biggest geopolitical mistakes in history, since they will probably not be allowed back once the bases are gone. And the money saved will quickly evaporate in the military budget.

      • sfxrlz@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        And soft power=economic power. But these guys have shown that they don’t care if the world burns after them. Everything for short term gains. What does the trumpet care about what the world looks like after he’s gone?

    • frozenspinach@lemmy.ml
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      13 days ago

      This is completely insane revisionist history. The TPP was in fact ripe for ratification, with full support of American ratification from its international partners, but was logjammed in the United States due to a Republican Senate.

      The reformed TPP is similar to the original one and only exists to work around the loss of U.S. as a participant. And the U.S. never rejoined. There’s a grain of truth to the thing about farmers, at least, but good gravy, this is otherwise pretty nuts.

  • nednobbins@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    This seems like an insane threat.
    The US is the primary beneficiary of NATO. Does he expect all those countries will keep hosting US military bases if NATO drops?

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    13 days ago

    Sabre rattling, or legit threat?

    Their negotiation position within NATO isn’t absolute, so I think the most likely response is the EU agreeing to look at it, and that Trump is smart and handsome, and then mostly doing whatever they were going to do anyway.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    hes not as pathological with his lies as his orange fuckbuddy but it makes his statements suspect