Can we stop it with journalists' insane use of commas in place of "and"?
If space is so precious, use an ampersand (&) for Christ's sake.
Reading this sentence normally, it could seem like allies ARE joining the mission.
Can we stop it with journalists' insane use of commas in place of "and"?
If space is so precious, use an ampersand (&) for Christ's sake.
Reading this sentence normally, it could seem like allies ARE joining the mission.
So let's recap...
You gave NATO and all your allies the middle finger by cutting their budget, tariffing them, insulting them, attempting to bully them into complying with your will, and threatening to invade some of them...
You seemingly forgot their contributions to America's previous pointless wars in the Middle East by saying they "weren't on the front lines", when most of them had sent people who lost their lives...
You end US funding for Ukraine's defense because you didn't think it was your problem, and you told Europe that it's their job to foot the bill...
You give the UN and NATO the middle finger with this farcical and extortionary "Board of Peace"...
And now you launch a pointless invasion of Iran and complain that NATO, a defensive organization is "rejecting" you by not participating in it?
Get fucked, old man!

Just yesterday, Danish media posted a description of how they planned to blow up airport runways to slow down an American invasion of Greenland. And how other European countries sent soldiers to help defend.
Trump complaining about Europe now not helping in Iran is some major chutzpah...
He's the spoiled little rich kid who comes over to the sandbox while others are building a sand castle, proceeds to destroy the sand castle, then kicks his ball over the fence and wants everyone to come help him get his ball back.
MAGA elected the most little bitch ass spoiled rich kid on earth.
Israel forced him into it, there is a reason we are calling it Operation Epstein's Fury. Because they have the tapes of the president, and ivy league aristocrats, fucking children.
Agreed
He wasn't even that rich anymore. It was all theater. His hotels were in a sad state. His scams weren't working anymore. It was all almost over.
The election saved his ass.
Now he's rich, after grabbing anything he can get his hands on. Even in his first term he was quoted as saying that it was all "his money" now. All his debts are gone, all the banks folded. All the big companies as well, because they saw that they could "use" him to also get more money.
If he was a spoiled rich kid before, think what he is now. He sees himself as a god.
The only silver lining, and I really mean only, is that he's so small intellectually that he'll (hopefully) never see it through to it's full potential.
As long as they keep the chimp away from the nukes, we should survive him, so that we can then be torn apart by climate change.
Someone warn Spain and Egypt in case he gets confused about his straights.
As always, "Trump says" is garbage headlining. Means about as much as "Third-grader blames family dog for misssing homework".
NATO was created as a defensive measure to present a combined defence in the event of being attacked.
It was NOT created to provide back up to a wannabe Napoleon with tiny dick syndrome because he decides to start a war on his own.
Show a bit of respect for people with tiny dicks, they don't deserve to be compared to this madman
… to cover his previous child raping activities
He can ask "Board of Peace" for help
“Bored of Peace”
He should star on another reality tv show: The Biggest Loser
What does he think NATO is? Isn’t the treaty to protect against aggression, not be the aggressors?
He believes he is the king of the world and NATO is a human resources investment similar to the many departments of Trump Kingdom LLC.
Far as he's concerned, who cares if that's not their job or intention. He's paying the bills damn it - he pay the bill, plebs do what he says. It's really that simple.
wtf is this headline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese
Have to make sure the Internet doesn't run out of bit, by using mangled English!
Defense organization want not to help in the attack war.
Reads like a text chat between an incel and a woman on the internet.
Trump: You are stupid. You are ugly and fat. I'm so much better than you ever will be and also fuck all our agreements. Null and void. And you owe me $13.47 for that coffee I paid for.
Them: stares confused . Then watches their economies be negatively impacted by trump.
Trump: hey we are buddies right? Come help me bomb civilians.
Them: no thanks.
Trump: you are a stupid fat ugly bitch and I don't need you anyway.
Trump (next day): how's it going? . So when are you deploying your troops to help out at the straight?
Them: blocks trump
Yup. It's really as simple as that. Trump is a sociopathic abuser, and the macro version of that is essentially the same as the micro.
He's been rejected by everybody he's ever met. That's probably why he's a rapist and a predator.
That was one labored sentence! I cannot be the only one that parsed it as: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO (while) most allies (are) to join mission ..."
Instead, it wants to say: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO and most allies (in his desire for them) to join mission ..."
"I would also like to remind you that the U.S. and Israel did not consult us before the war, and that Washington explicitly stated at the start of the war that European assistance was neither necessary nor desired," Kornelius said.
But I thought that the “greatest military in the world” wouldn’t need help for a war that has “already been won”?

Still too big for this fool.
NATO's job is to protect member states from Russian aggression. Trump has zero concept of history.
Trump's Pentagon insisted on a go-it-alone approach to Iran at the outset. This wasn't NATO's choice it was Hegseth's choice.
Even fucking Chimp-in-Chief Bush Jr had the decency to assemble the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq. Rubio couldn't be bothered to get the fucking Turks and Saudis on board, and they've hated Iran since the Ottoman Empire fell.
Absolutely bonkers to talk about this as some kind of NATO failure to comply when the treaty was never invoked to begin with. Doubly so, when you consider how many NATO bases are still ultimately being used by US forces to get hardware into position.
"hey, you, fuck you! also, I'll take your shit. also, come help me pls! but also, fuck you." - tronald dump
What a fucking toooooooooooool to the power of infinity. Same goes for supporters and enablers.
He's being"rejected" by a group that he has spent the last year shitting on?
Gee, what a surprise...
"Guys! GUYS! You really depend on the oil that flows through the Strait so come and help me open it!"
"But your actions closed it in the first place."
"OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WON'T HELP! :`("
Fuck me, this is what international politics and diplomacy have become.
Literally no official channel from the US has asked NATO. (Rage tweets are not official) The US was not attacked so it can’t invoke article 5. No one from NATO needs to help this American war adventurism.
"We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need."
I thought the US already destroyed 100% of the Iranian military? If I were an ally, it would sound to me like the help is not needed as there is no military remaining to fight.
Like how the US protected Ukraine when it gave up its nukes, trusting that the West and NATO would protect them if Russia decided to invade?
I know, that invasion began between Orange Man's two terms, but still. The US in general needs to STFU about how it supposedly protects the world, they dropped the ball bigtime there.
NATO is a defensive alliance, not to be invoked when you get bribed by the zionists to start a war you cant finish. Our NATO allies owe us nothing in this situation but lawsuits for US/Israeli terrorism and destroying the oil markets.
He wanted the war, he can go out and fight it
The U.S. has threatened a founding member of NATO with a war of aggression, and furthermore, the U.S. is committing war crimes alongside the genocidal Israel - this is the situation in which the U.S. is calling for support for a war of aggression that tramples on international law. Or to put it another way: It is the situation that a narcissist - who should have been in prison for decades - has brought about with what he calls the "Art of the Deal." GTFO!
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