His speech is over.
10m ago • Trump says he wants to build ‘greatest Golden Dome ever built’ over Greenland
25m ago • Trump: We will remember if you say no over Greenland
28m ago • Trump: not sure Nato would be there for us
36m ago • Trump: I won't use force to take Greenland
42m ago • Trump: Seeking immediate negotiations for purchase of Greenland
44m ago • Trump: US ‘takes great care’ about the people of Europe, but they are ‘destroying themselves’
45m ago • Trump: You'd be speaking German and Japanese without us
53m ago • Europe 'not heading in right direction', Trump says
1h ago • Trump: Inflation has been defeated
1h ago • Trump's speech is under way
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On Minnesota, Trump criticises the “mass import” of foreign cultures, citing Somalia. He then hits out at “fake congressperson” Ilhan Omar, criticising her for “telling us how to run America”
Is NATO even really an “alliance” in the true sense though? Or just a formalisation of american imperial hierarchy
Debatable, they've never used their military power for collective defence of a member(libs will debate this as article 5 was invoked to 'protect' America by the NATO invasion of Afghanistan, but imo that doesn't count as a defence since it wasn't fighting on American soil and was essentially a 'pre-emptive strike' to prevent further Al-Qaeda attacks(accepting the official 9/11 story, and ignoring the Taliban's over to hand bin-laden over to a neutral country for evidence-based prosecution, and taking the US's casus belli as legitimate) despite the Al-Qaeda cell allegedly responsible operating out of Germany and having no Afghan members ), only for aggressive military acts that support the US's geopolitical ambitions
'An alliance led by the US to enforce its empire' maybe accurate, but I guess 'organisation' or something similar better describes the unequal nature of member states as 'alliance' suggests members are equalish peers