The utterly simplistic language of it all. 🙄🙄🙄

Too many MAGA assholes and bootlickers out there, good for Canada and Spain to show them the middle finger

Translation: "Thanks to your stupid politics, you managed to pull EU closer and finally decide on things for Greater good."

This make me feels somewhat awkward.

My sense at this point is that grotesque flattery works on Trump, but only to a point. Trump doesn't really like anyone, the best you can do is a slightly-better-than-neutral relationship. (And at the other end he's willing to coexist with anyone who hasn't personally slighted him, like Kim Jong Un)

Career politicians doing what they do best, kissing their boss ass.

Anyone else remember when libs were fearmongering that Trump will leave NATO and leftists said "don't threaten me with a good time"?

World leaders have figured out he's functionally a toddler. Starmer and Trudeau took the same approach.

Does Trump not realize that this message makes himself look bad?

This can't be real

Communication is most effective in the language of receiver. Rutte emulates Trump like ChatGPT.

This is so poorly written I have no idea if it's sarcasm or not.

I’ve have said this before but WW3 will start because of a meme or ChatGPT.

By the way Rutte changed the wording in the agreement to be more vague as to what 'allies' means because Spain refused to agree to 5%.

obviously, I doubt Rutte was expecting this message to be shared. If he wasn't a complete moron and actually doing this just to stroke his own ego, I'd actually give Donald props for leaking it, as Rutte kissing Donald's ass makes him look terrible, and more broadly makes the European parts of NATO look terrible.

I imagine Rutte's intent is to stroke Trump's ego to try and keep him interested in NATO, but I feel like that's a fool's errand. Trump doesn't give a shit about anyone else but himself. This new agreement, with NATO signatories needing to commit 5% of their GDP, feels like a grift for the benefit of U.S. defense contractors. The U.S. cannot be trusted to actually honor their agreements anymore, so why pay more into their alliance? Is Europe really that scared of further Russian aggression?