Trump’s attack on Europe - from bullying to bullshitting!

in #news6 years ago

The whole Europe is watching with dismay president Donald Trump’s furious reckoning with its main European allies, whom he accuses of being a bunch of ungrateful bastards, not doing enough to shoulder the burden of defending the West against Russia. The angry tweets yesterday and the earful he gave NATO secretary Jens Stoltenberg today seem however mostly directed at his fan-base at home. The people who voted for him, those who were sold to the promise of ‘America First’. He seems to be speaking to Joe Public, and Joe Public is rightfully outraged to be spending a whole lot of money to defend the ungrateful Europeans.

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The US are spending far more than their European allies on defence, 3.5% of their GDP, as opposed to Europeans who barely spend 2%. Germany is roughly at 1.24%. If you put it like that, yes, the US is spending far more.
The problem is the huge US defence budget is not actually being spent on protecting us European scumbags from Russia. It’s not used on defence at all, but on attack - think Iraq and Syria, for instance. The American taxpayer’s money, Joe Public’s many taxes went into leveling Afghanistan to the ground, destroying Iraq for no reason. Most recently, the US conducted a series of bombardments on Syrian government positions in retaliation for fake gas attacks against civilians. Each of the missiles used costs millions of dollars. The American taxpayer ultimately footed the bill for all these wars, yet now Trumps comes to Europe guns blazing, accusing all of us the US defence budget is so huge because of us.
Not to mention the fact all NATO members have been dragged in the wars America unleashed, simply because that’s what allies do, they stick together. Does Yugoslavia ring any bells? The US dragged NATO into that.
The unfortunate UK prime minister Theresa May just reminded Trump of this fact - even if the UK falls behind on defence spending (being thus on Trump’s shit list), fact is that London always stepped up when the US sounded the call. I’m sure you remember Tony Blair’s efforts to convince European countries to get involved in Iraq, a place we had no business being.

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Just an example of where does the US defence budget goes - Syria!

Another issue - by ordering Europeans to increase defence spending, Trump is nothing but a bullish salesman for the US war industry, because if us European were to buy more attack helicopters and radars we wouldn’t be buying them from Russia, would we? If there’s money to be made, it’s not for Joe Public, it’s for the military complex.
If the US has had enough of spending that much money on defence, the US could simply stop doing that. Scale back the budget to 2% and use the rest of the money for something Joe Public might actually benefit from. I don’t know, building new hospitals for the US veterans, left to fend for themselves now that they’re no longer useful? But then, the war machine wouldn’t be making enough money.
Finally, president Trump’s concern with defence money would ring true if he ordered a real and thorough review of all the funds the Pentagon seems to have lost track of. I’m not going to go into conspiracy theory, just take a look at this Forbes article.
The title should be enough to make Joe Public mad -‘Has Our Government Spent $21 Trillion Of Our Money Without Telling Us?’
We’re talking trillions of government money unaccounted for!That’s way more than Trump could expect of some poor European nations to fork out, yet you don’t see the US president raging over all that money and where the fuck did it go?
His bullying might get some Europeans increase their defence spending, but in the end Joe Public would be better served if president Trump put his own house in order and held some people accountable for the use of public money.
And Joe Public could step up himself and, instead of vilifying us Europeans, he could ask his president what the fuck is he doing in places like Syria or maybe Iran, who knows? For if war hawks have their way, a good deal of the US ‘defence’ budget might end up not defending us Europeans, but unleashing bombs over Iran.

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resteemed and upvoted and worst this porn fucker want to impose gmos on europe...

it means that he is with jeffrey epstein and hillary clinton. that's it.

american famers are terrorists.

What a pile of hatespeech and fakenews this post is...

The news reported is by all means true - trump is in Europe and he is pissed! So are the Europeans... As for my interpretation of the facts it's not hatespeech at all. I wanted Trump to win the presidency, hoping he might be the change, the one to stand up to the military-industrial complex dragging us all in endless wars. Two years into his term, I'm not sure he is going to be that change.
I did you the courtesy of checking out your blog. I saw that you support a Free Iran. As far as I know, the Iranian opposition abroad is sponsored heavily by neo-cons. If we ever get to the point of war in Iran, I'm very much afraid Iran will be far from free - it'll just become a failed state like Irak, Egypt, Syria - countries also liberated by the US. I'm sorry to have to say this but nobody gives a crap about the people of Iran, not Trump, not Giuliani, not the neocons, nobody - it's just power play.

I appreciate your concern for this topic but please do a little more research into the past. Firstly the past presidents are responsible for those wars and putting the US where they do not belong. Yes it was done for the wrong reasons. Yes we did pull other countries into wars that should not have been. However you do not have to like trump's big ego or his overall personality but please look a little deeper into what he has accomplished and look into the great team of honest patriots behind him who are trying to clean up this mess in america. Corruption and crime have been prevalent for too long. The crime and corruption is a world problem and has infiltrated all of the big organizations from UN to NATO to World trade organization and it is going to take all of us working together to try and clean it up. Topics that might interest you are case of Tommy Robinson arrest in UK, what is really going on in the Iran deal (money paid by Iran to who? and the people's unrest with the current regime). Also why is Italy suddenly becoming patriotic and want changes. Why has Merkel in Germany had to make some concessions to stay on as leader. Why is Swedon and Finland preparing there people for war like conditions and considering enacting conscription again. All of these things are related to people having had enough of the status quo. For us in America I tell my children that it takes someone like Trump to change things because anyone else would be too weak and be walked all over. Please forgive me if I seem to pushy but I know Trump is hard for the world to take but try to look past the frontal view and look at what good things are involved even if it was just to wake people up and start questioning all leaders and make them accountable.

You are very right to say people all over the world are fed up with the status quo. As I already said in another comment I followed the US elections closely and was happy to see Trump elected. I do hope he will be able to accomplish the things you tell your children about.
I just wanted to point out that all the talk about who's spending what on defence is mostly bullshit. It's not like the US has to spend that money for my sake, the US defence budget will still be the same no matter what us European spend on our own defence.
Part of Trump's appeal is his no nonsense businessman style, but what we prefer to ignore is that at some point in his career Trump went bankrupt...
So many people trust Trump it would be frightening to see him fail.

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