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NATO Secretary Mark Rutte is still kissing up to Trump on Fox News

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Seems to me that this just projects weakness (”we’re desperate to keep America on board”) regardless of the reality. If anything i think it would embolden Russia to take a chance (especially if thinks it’s losing in Ukraine) confident that Trump won’t help.

"And of course Marco Rubio" The Secretary of State is an afterthought to the two real estate grifters. Rutte knows better. I assume he thinks there's coin in it for him at some point. Guess he's immovable for two more years. Just enough.

Oh man… where are the days when Mark was biking to ‘Het Torentje’ eating an apple. Though he does look like that evil Agent Smith here. We should have known he took the blue pill.

🫪NATO supports shadow diplomacy? Here we thought it's bad practice to operate in grey zone w/o legal scrutiny... Nightmarish to think of the lack of accountability, misuse, exploitation, manipulation of their position, undermining of the law & the tremendous risks to Int'l order that result from it.

He has no real option. He doesn't hold the cards. Trump is right. But when this disastrous period in American history is finally over, Rutte will be able to tell us all what he really thought all along.

every leader in europe is playing for enough time to build up their own local defense industry. they know they will never please T, but they still need a minimum of support for a while longer. decoupling is on a fast track tho.

Agree w/ the spirit, but it's the wrong tactic for dealing w/ bullies & dicts. It's nauseating to watch them continue their delusion that appeasement & sickening suck ups works when virtually everyone else understands this isn't the right way. Appeasement is what brought us here in the first place.

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Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager

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Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

Interesting point, I would say the key thing is that Xi is actually not that worried about the Thucydides trap, but by bringing it up twice, right in Trump’s face, it’s his way of saying to the US, you are in decline and we know it

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Henchman #1@henchman1.bsky.social

It's likely less intended for the Americans and more for other countries watching the interaction. "See, this country elected a doddering old fool and a group of morons. They're done. China is where it's at."