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- jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish1 year
As I always said, the US never cared about the defense expenditure of European countries except as a way to bolster US exports.
It was always about extortion and never about defense.
- jonne@infosec.pubEnglish1 year
Yep, they were fine with ‘footing the bill for European defense’ as long as enough members bought F35s and whatever other pointless toys the US produced. Only France basically stuck with producing everything domestically.
Trump never really understood what that unspoken part of the bargain really was about. If Europe is going to actually spend 2% of GDP, they’re going to keep that money domestically as much as possible instead of sending all that spending overseas in dollars.
1 yearYou’d think a businessman as bigly smart (people tell him all the time, many people) as he is would understand this.
- jonne@infosec.pubEnglish1 year
I still don’t know if he’s just stupid or if he’s just doing what Putin wants by undermining NATO. I guess both could be true at the same time.
- Kornblumenratte@feddit.orgEnglish1 year
He’s a dealer, not a businessman. Deal ≠ business economics ≠ national economics ≠ global economics.
If you apply the “art of the deal” to the global economy, you’ll wreck it. Well, if you apply his “art of the deal”, you’ll wreck basically anything except you’re own wallet.
- hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish1 year
A del would imply he’s good at negotiation. He isn’t. He’s good at leveraging people, but mostly that’s been illegal. If he was good at deals, he wouldn’t have messed up international relations, which is deal making, but more complex. He’s a rich kid that fell upwards and inspired a cult following through sheer luck.
- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Trump never really understood that most US “aid” is literally the US gov recycling old ordinance and equipment to continue siphoning tax dollars into the military industrial complex and it’s oligarchs — expenses DOGE have not touched and do not consider “waste”… for some, certainly not fascist imperialism, reason…
- 1 year
“No, we don’t like that. We insist that you do not.”
“Art of ze deal, non?”
- alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
There is nobody more entitled on this planet than the Orange man and his followers.
- 1 year
“Here’s a tariff! Fuck you!”
We don’t trust you anymore. We won’t buy from you
“Noooo, but you must!”
Fuck 'em.
- Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
I dunno I heard some American with a spray tan say that they didn’t need Europe or Canada…
- d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
MAGA: AMERICA FIRST!
Rest of world: OK, I guess we need to put ourselves first, too.
MAGA: NOT LIKE THAT!
- yopyop@feddit.nlEnglish1 year
According to two of the sources, Rubio said any exclusion of U.S. companies from European tenders would be seen negatively by Washington,
Ah ah ah ! “Would be seen negatively”… Ah ah ah !
- axh@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
We want Greenland. We think you are all worthless freeloaders. We wish to kill your businesses with tariffs because you dared to sell us things (and we don’t care how bad that will be for our people. My voters are too stupid and brainwashed to care and the opposition doesn’t matter)… Also buy our weapons!
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
They say this after taunting Germany last month on a visit in Munich where they basically said you‘d have to have military power to be sovereign.
This sounds like it came from the same guy who wanted to sue companies for not advertising on twitter
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Maybe they should object to the reasons that made us buying European in the first place.
- 1 year
Sounds like the Defense Industry doesn’t want anybody upsetting the apple cart.
I wonder if these powerful businesses could come up with a solution? 🤔
- TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Plsplspls buy from mee. Give that sweet sweet money. I neeed it soooo bad ~USA
- Don_alForno@feddit.orgEnglish1 year
Well … We want you to put the orange turd in jail and quit being dicks to everybody. You can’t always get what you want, can you?
