Donald Trump Pulling US Troops From Europe in Blow to NATO Allies: Report

[prandom_returns@lemm.ee]

Wow!

Now do russia!

[blackn1ght@feddit.uk]

rather than offering affordable housing to locals

Let's be honest, this wouldnt happen. Ideally the base would close and basically have an entirely new village built on it, flooding the local market with available properties that helps reduce the cost of housing - an abundance of supply over demand.

That said, the locals might have mixed feelings as US airmen will likely contribute to the local economy in some way.

[tankovayadiviziya@lemmy.world]

There are plenty of rich people who lost their wealth-- mostly due to stupidity because they became decadent and resting on their laurels, believing their luck will last forever, like Charlie Sheen. Trump could have done the same and he has had plenty of lawsuits. And yet he's still here.

As someone mentioned, Trump's antics are all smoke and mirrors for distraction. But didn't realise that someone totally dumb would not be doing that all. The greatest trick that the devil pulled is make everyone believe he is stupid and harmless.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

Who is the smart and dumb one? The smart one is certainly the one who’s in charge now and steering the rudder.

Nah. He's the less stupid one. Liberals within the Democratic party backstabbing Bernie and gaslighting the people about the people's own economical woes are the real stupid ones, the reason slightly less stupid could win.

[eatmytaxes44@futurology.today]

Yes. Yanks go home

[eatmytaxes44@futurology.today]

Get the fuck out of every foreign base. Period. Americans soldiers should stay in america.

[eatmytaxes44@futurology.today]

Why go that far? There were still supporting a genocide last week.

Ah wait germany is doing that too. Nevermind

[eatmytaxes44@futurology.today]

Beside, it's not that old so that people don't get cancer from agent orange anymore.

What a scummy country, the USA

[eatmytaxes44@futurology.today]

Ah yes I benefited a lot from having nazi gangsters roaming free funded by gladio money.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

If NATO and the US are no longer as much if a factor? He can project westward with less fear.

[warl0k3@lemmy.world]

I hate to be the "ra ra america" guy here, but you know that's totally within the power of any country we have a base in to do, right? Our base leases can all be terminated by the host country pretty much whenever they want, and we'll leave. This even happens sometimes, too - it's partially why we withdrew from afghanistan. With one or two (cough cough) notable exceptions, US bases are established because we were invited by the host government.

[warl0k3@lemmy.world]

It's depressing, but the US is the main supporter of the Ukraine war effort. Europe has been able to rely on a US-backed NATO for a long time, and boy oh boy is trump making it clear what a bad idea that was. If the US stops supporting Ukraine, even just materially (i.e. we keep supplying intelligence and similar), the war will turn depressingly quickly. Hopefully they've been able to inflict enough damage on the russian economy that they'll agree to a cease fire, but no european nations are equipped to fight the war of attrition Ukraine has turned into.

[jokedeity@lemm.ee]

Donald Trump is going to kill millions, maybe billions of people in the long run from the collective effort of all his combined actions, and it sounds like the majority of people will be applauding the entire time right up to the very moment it's their head on the block. Tankies, conservatives, and centrists cheer as Earth burns.

[jaxxed@lemmy.ml]

Well that could be tough for Europe to quickly adapt to ... but ok.

Will they pull out of Greenland?

[kissaki@feddit.org]

I don't think it's disingenuous. Omission of context in specific criticism doesn't invalidate said criticism.

[kissaki@feddit.org]

We've seen war between nuclear nations. It's not necessarily a deterrent from war. Russia is not using nukes against Ukraine either. It's merely a deterrent from escalation to that degree.

[leftytighty@slrpnk.net]

A multi-millionaire can lose their money, a billionaire gets more than they can spend just by having it

[nalivai@lemmy.world]

Well, right now Putin is the only one Europe needs to be defended from, so they will still devote full attention. More, probably, since Europe will be forced to hasten the military policy renewal

[howru68@lemmy.world]

We've seen war between nuclear nation

Ofcourse, having nukes is not an guarantee, but highly increases deterrence.
Also, most wars we've seen are cold wars and or proxy wars though.

Ukraine had a huge nuclear arsenal (third in the world), which it then ceded to Russia in the 1994 Budapest memorandum Kyiv post.

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

America's only real ally is Israel, the rest are just "allies" as long as it's convenient.