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[-] [email protected] 104 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Real tweet, fake text... no way any NATO leader would say "Europe is going to pay BIG" it's just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what's real anymore.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

I'm sure EVERY European politician randomly CAPITALISES words like some LUNATIC

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

And signs their essay texts with their name. Very common as we all know.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Hasn't Rutte always been known for being able to handle Trump well? I'm pretty sure the only way to do that is kiss his ass in a way he understands, so this doesn't seem too surprising.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

AP is reporting this as real

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would love and hate to see proof that Mark Rutte really texted this to Trump.

The "Truth" post is 100% real, inarguably, but I haven't seen anyone reporting the picture is of a real message from Rutte to Trump.

E: never mind that is... apparently Rutte's office has confirmed the message is really from Rutte????

?????

I need to go lie down.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'm confused why people are surprised at this, to be honest. It's entirely expected.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

It's entirely expected, not sure why you're in disbelief.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

It reads like something Trump wrote about himself. He's done that kind of bullshit before.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Trump has also leaked private messages before.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

The Rutte team has confirmed it was indeed a real text sent by Mark Rutte to Trump.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Ran a quick search and multiple well established news outlets are reporting this.

I’m afraid it is.

The wording does seem very out of character for Rutte but it makes sense that he feels the need to stoop to Trump’s level and overdo the flattering.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Eh, looks like rutte writes English in the same way that he speaks it. Honestly I first thought that it was a shitpost, but no, it seems legit.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Rutte's unique approach to English merely reflects the fact that his intellectual ceiling would challenge even the most ambitious root vegetable.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

It's written in a way for Trump to understand

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Liberals are right-wing. Always have been, always will be.

Dutch liberals are not under the progressive umbrella,
so while the Dutch progressive party is advocating to stop the war,
Dutch liberals are in full support of it.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

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%.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Europeans online think that Rutte is 'masterfully manipulating' Trump by talking to him like a 5 year old and are extremely proud of this.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Me: Trump needs to be taken to the Hague

Me: nooo not like that

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Purely defensive pact btw

All in the interests of Europe btw

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

No. The message here is "look at how I´m having my dick sucked"

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

You are flying into another big success in the Hague

I wish

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

What a pathetic little worm Rutte is.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

"What can we do to make it look like Israel is not committing war-crimes?" - Mark Rutte right before he got promoted to NATO chief.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Europe is going to pay in a BIG way

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Well i just found out some of these NATO leaders were Nazis so NATO might just be a white supremacist group technically.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

NATO is just a millitary alliance for the purpose of maintaining Western Imperialism, which is headed by the US Empire.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Well ... it's good to see there aren't just idiots in the US

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Trump is getting played because of his fragile ego. Him sharing a message of a person stroking his ego is evidence of it working.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idIxeAYnLGk

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says he has 'no problem' with US President sharing private message

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

“How are you traveling to His Majesty’s dinner? Mind if I get a ride swingin from your nuts?”

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Oh my God I can just text the president while pretending to be anyone and shape world politics

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