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Trump is planning a pincer attack on Europe, Putin to the East and US to the West.
The third pincer is already inside Europe, in the shape of fascist parties that get funding from the US.
Less of a third pincer and more of a fifth column, as it were.
Dude's got half the Navy off the coast of Venezuela just arbitrarily killing anyone in a boat. If he's planning to re-Normandy Europe by way of Greenland (presumably between island hoping off Taiwan into mainland China and sending ground troops to stamp out the Houthis in Yemen) he's coming at it with surprising subtlety.
As much as I understand the worry from Europe,
This strikes me as in line with the Trump administration firing/ ignoring any and all types of oversight.
Broadly, I agree.
I would still worry as while they might not actively attack, they may happily just nope on out of helping any NATO allies. NATO allies are more self-sufficient than before, but NATO without US forces and equipment would be much weaker than an active US.
However, he might just go and pick up Greenland if things pop off. If NATO were chewing on a fight with Russia, I think it would be a safe bet that europe would barely spare the time to shake their head disapprovingly if US just went and occupied Greenland. I don't think they'd actually do a hot war with western european nations, but could easily see them just 'declaring' ownership of Greenland and no one stopping them.
more or less unpopular than having a pedophile as president?
Having a pedophile is pretty unpopular... It's starting to rend MAGA apart. Ongoing open warfare would be much harder to hide than child abuse from 10-20 years ago though, so it would be harder for the MAGA faithful to deny.
Absolutely These people don't care about kids that they don't know being abused. Their own children dying on the battlefield though, that's a different matter
While I see your point, I had to travel a lot for work a few years back... and I got tired of seeing moms, dads and girlfriends making a show at the airport about how their sons/boyfriends/husbands were going to war to DEFEND the USA and PROTECT xyz
I think the brain washing has been thorough enough that they'll have enough meat for the grinder.
If the people of the USA did not revolt after the WMD fiasco and the American lives lost there, I doubt another war for profit would be any different
Just need a bit of propaganda. If half of Americans were convinces trump is a good president (the best even!), they can be convinced that invading Europe is a great idea.
Just tell them that wokeness has invaded Europe and they need being saved by the US.
Every war involvement is unpopular in the US, doesn't make the country pacifist.
"America keeps fighting the last war" they said already way back in the 1960s, for all I know.
Germany should build up a massive army to pre-emptively invade Russia. But first they should unite the rest of Europe. It is very pressing so there is no way to do this except by toppling their corrupt regimes. In fact lets start with Poland.
The median German is 45 years old.
History doing a pirouette
Time to build a new Atlantic Wall, then?