Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members
Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members
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Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members
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Not sure whether bullshit, ignorant, or traitor.
If the US were not to come to the aid of a NATO member's invocation of Article 5, don't expect many NATO members to come to the aid of the US when Russian missiles start flying around the North Pole.
And... didn't Russia already say that the sale of Alaska was illegal, and they want it back? Anyone else get some Crimea vibes?
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¿Por qué no los tres?
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This is a reminder that this guy has very large chances to go back in the office and be president of the United States once again. We are so fucked and I am saying this as someone who is not American.
Same here. I am a US citizen.
I even have people in my family that voted for this guy and may again.
The options we have are limited. Biden who is really too old. Trump who is too old not qualified and self serving. Nikki Haley who probably cannot get nominated.
Edit: Most people want Biden and Trump to not be running but we will probably be stuck choosing between these two. In the primaries I will not vote for either. In the general election I will never vote for Trump.
So who do you vote for in the primaries? If you don't vote for Biden, does that not help Trump?
Asking as a confused British person.
If Biden got re-elected, and then became incapacitated to fulfill his duties, wouldn't that make the vice-president take his place?
I mean, Kamala Harris doesn't seem that bad of a choice for president, and neither does Nikki Haley if Biden decided to run with her for the presidentials.
And sadly, the DNC is going to cause it, because they're trapped in the 90s. Bill Clinton, who was elected president in 1993, is younger today than the person they're throwing into the ring 31 years later.
I live in California, which is going to go Democrat no matter what, so there's not much I can do but sit back and watch Biden lose swing states.
Hillary's refusal to bow out when it was clear how deeply unpopular she was put Trump in office in 2016, and I'm going to be shocked if Biden's same arrogance doesn't cause it this year.
Biden's gonna "hold onto the torch a little longer" out of pride, and we're all gonna suffer for it.
It is not the fault of the DNC that the Republicans are full fascist. I wish there were a more compelling candidate that Biden but put the blame where it belongs. Squarely on the shoulders of the GOP and their voters.
The thing I'm noticing now is a deep stratification between Democrats who are begrudgingly forcing themselves to vote for Biden because a second Trump presidency basically means the end of the United States if it wasn't already inevitable, and Progressives who are refusing to vote for Biden because of his tacit support of the ongoing genocide in Palestine, who feel it doesn't really matter who they vote for because the AMIC ensures that bombs will fall and innocent people will die regardless of who's in the White House.
And the thing is, Biden has achieved a lot that goes quietly unnoticed. $130 billion in student loans debt relief, the $35 cap on insulin, gains in employment and reduction on inflation, to name a few accomplishments. But America's been circling the drain for a long, long time, and the refusal to admit it, and hold accountable the people responsible for it (because as much a sin it is to engage in bothsidesism, those people bankroll campaigns for team red and blue) is what will end up being the death knell for democracy in America, and even if it's not, the earth is falling apart faster than we can fix or escape it.
Me, personally? I'm voting for Biden, but I'm not holding my breath for hope in this lifetime. Suicide rates are the highest they've ever been and it's not hard to see why.
I feel like when he was in office before, I recall him wanting to pull out of NATO then.
I hope we have legislatively done everything we can to ensure whoever the president is, is not able to unilaterally pull out of alliances, and membership in the UN, and WHO, without first getting congressional approval as well, and any such action would be null, and void without such approval.
We were a joke on the world stage when Trump was in office, and lost the trust of much of our allies. We are finally taken seriously on the world stage again, and not laughed at for our president, but we have not fully regained that trust; it is there now, but the world now see's weather they can trust us at any given moment is depending on elections every 4 years at minimum, and our current congress is even swayed by the whims of a former president that isn't even in office.
The trust, standing, and soft power the USA lost from Trump's time in office, may never return to what it once was.
Congressional approval is necessary for entering treaties, not for leaving them. Congress tries to change that. Hopefully in time
Congress already passed a bill preventing presidents from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO, but legal experts think it won't hold up in court if challenged by Trump.