• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    Better headline: “Trump whining about NATO again, still not realizing that 66% of congress needs to approve it.”

    He cannot be relied upon if Article 5 is invoked anyway, so all the other NATO countries are just waiting for him to keel over and die.

    In the mean time, JATEC continues to coordinate doctrines, personnel keeps training, and the command structure remains.This too shall pass, despite of this ass.

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      People are waiting for Trump to die so that all this nastiness will all go away magically. It won’t, Trump is a symptom and not a cause. Anyone planning to rely on US for military protection in the future has to account for Americans voting for a mentally ill influencer for a president.

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        Yes and no, Trump is a side effect, not a symptom. The actual coup happening has been decades in the making and been done by people like Mitch McConnell. Trump, and his handlers like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller co-opted the movement, in much the same way that RFK co-opted the make America healthy again movement.

        When Trump steps aside or dies, or whatever, it’s going to create a power vacuum in a system that wasn’t created to handle Trump in the first place. The entire system is going to fracture as the original coup participants try to take back over, the Vances of the world try to continue the movement, and the rest of the people who were only in it because of the mentally ill influencer who’s books they thought were the absolute pinnacle of business stop paying attention to politics again.