"If we don't, the United States will withdraw from Europe," Finland's Mika Aaltola said on X.
Summary
A European Parliament member claimed that the U.S. gave Europe three weeks to agree on Ukraine's "surrender" terms or risk an American withdrawal from Europe.
Mika Aaltola made the claim on X, but provided no evidence. NBC News reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested a U.S. troop reduction in Europe.
Trump reportedly plans to cut 20,000 troops and demand greater NATO contributions. He has pushed for higher NATO defense spending.
Trump may meet with Putin soon, believing Russia holds the upper hand in negotiations.
He's gonna withdraw anyways...he works for you Putin. They are ramping for WW3 with the world vs USA/Russia/China..fucked up to put us with Russia but here we are.
Yeah he'll withdraw troops and NATO support no matter how things go in Europe ...
He'll need more armyboots at home defending his regime ... also needs to recoup costs due to losing out on tax income and tariff lies.
Then there is this thing where he wants to give Putin this favor of dismantling NATO.
So, his demand was 2% in 2017 ... and countries are exceeding that, Poland is already spending more than even the US, and Germany is climbing, so he upped it to 5% to get the excuse of the US backing out.
Even if they meet 5%, in a few years he'll up it further.
Ofcourse for now he'll assume the NATO members still feel bound to keep supplying intelligence information and buy American weaponry, even if NATO falls apart.
it's a lot like the tripartite pact. three fascist military governments are agreeing to non-compete terms. they are not allies. they are merely not enemies
A lot of people don't vote as a protest. Most stupid shit I ever heard and I instantly lose respect for anyone that doesn't at least go spoil their ballot.
Nah. Lumping the people who didn't vote in as supporting trump is stupid.
(I fully expect most of you to do it, though.)
Edit for the downvoters: Are you really delusional enough to believe that people who didn't vote for trump are automatically going to die for him in a war? Lol.
All that's required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. If you did nothing to prevent Trump, then you are fully on board with what he promised to do when he's in power.
Harris would've been better than trump, but that's not the boon you may think it is.
The problem with biden and harris is they convince the left that a slow loss is winning. It's not. The disparity in wealth continued to grow under biden, just not as fast as it would have under trump.
Until the left can grow some cajones and rescind its rampant consumerism, either politician that wins is a loss for the working class.
I don't think they've actually approved a war since Korea. They ceded that power to the president. Congress never declared war on Vietnam, Iraq x2, or Afghanistan. And that's just the big ones.
You are incorrect on each of those. Vietnam was approved by Congress with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964). Iraq was approved with the Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (2002). Afghanistan was approved by the Congress Joint Resolution (2001).