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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Emperor rutte has spoken. Well deputy emperor to trump, rutte, has spoken. NATO members all agree to destroy their societies in order to boost military spending by 150%. Traitors in member parliaments will need to be executed if they object to the empire.

At least Europes war on Russia will be worth it. Every 100 years, no one left alive to remember last failure.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days 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] 37 points 3 days ago (16 children)

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] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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?

They're massively investing in European defense industry, not just buying more from the US. They are scared of Russian aggression and they are scared the US will not honor NATO agreements which is why they're committing so hard to defense spending. Also, I believe it's 3.5% for military and 1.5% for infrastructure.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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] 26 points 3 days ago

You are flying into another big success in the Hague

I wish

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

Purely defensive pact btw

All in the interests of Europe btw

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Europe is going to pay in a BIG way

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

Me: Trump needs to be taken to the Hague

Me: nooo not like that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The US empire had to influence because there is a lot of historical white supremacy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

White supremacy is a huge factor, for sure, but don't discount the economic factor; the US economy is built on imperialism, and without it would crumble.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Bootlicker.

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