European leaders have called for greater unity and military cooperation across the continent in response to comments from Donald Trump that threatened to undermine the basis of Nato.

Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, said on a visit to Paris on Monday that there was “no alternative” to the EU and the transatlantic alliance before a summit in which he discussed deepening defence relationships with the French president, Emmanuel Macron.

“It is probably here in Paris that the words from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas resonate most clearly: ‘All for one, and one for all,’” said Tusk, in a thinly veiled riposte to the former US president and frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.

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  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    At what point does this guy become such a liability, that the CIA carries out “Operation Orange Peel”?

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      Hopefully Secret Service is keeping tabs on this guy and microphoned his hair flap.

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    America is quickly loosing the strong leadership persona it’s held for decades due to the utter stupidity of its leaders (both former and current). Biden has been lax on his oversight, but in fairness to him he had a shitshow to contend with in dealing with the fallout from Jan 6.

    Come Nov Americans had better figure it out before everything it’s worked for goes spinning down the drain.

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      Biden is fine. It’s your fascist problem we’re worried about.

      Sincerely,
      Europe

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        As an American it’s equally annoying how people cannot fucking see what a great job Biden has done overall. Land of the Free, Home of the Dumb

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          That’s because democrats are laughably horrible at championing their own successes. In contrast, republicans will drop a steaming pile of shit on the Speaker of the House’s desk, walk outside in front of the news cameras, and start screeching about how hard they’re winning.

          As always, democrats are their own worst enemy.

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      I think it probably started with George W. Bush and especially the way he reacted to 9/11. The way they’ve been winding back those mistakes has been milquetoast at best.

      Terrorists win.

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      How convenient for countries that consider the USA unfriendly.

      Hey didn’t that Tucker guy just have an interview with Putin? What now?

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    ETO: European Treaty Organization. Cut the US out and problem solved.

    No longer following imperialistic US foreign policy in the name of collective defense.

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      I dunno, Marine Le Pen and others are also casting a shadow over Europe. Keep voting for strong candidates to keep the likes of her and the AFD out. It’s very important the world weather this storm.

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        Orban is no prize, as another example. But it sounds like Poland turned things around in the last election?

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      Also get rid of Turkey while we’re at it. If I were forced to fight down there I’d fight along the Kurds.

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        It’s hard to overstate the strategic importance of the Bosporus Strait

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          Of course - and hopefully soon Erdogan will rot and someone more worthy will take over. I’m not saying we should stop considering Turkey allies, I just don’t want to depend on them that’s all.

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      The good thing about outsourcing military might to another country like the USA has had pretty great social effects in European countries. Lower militarism, higher amount of resources put to actually useful things.

      But I guess nothing can last forever.

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    It should have been clear 7 years ago that Europe can’t rely on US any more. Hoping US will become a rational partner again and dragging their feet on real action is probably equal part inertia and corruption. Hopefully they will wake up sooner than they did with Russia and energy independence.

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    Trump and conservatives, eroding the U.S. global position every day.

    Making the country weaker on the global table, while also making it poorer, less capable, and generally less stable.

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      3rd party 2024 Split the vote 2024 and end this bullshit give conservatives a landslide win

      FTFY. I don’t like Biden. I’d rather have a fucking llama in office. But every vote pulled from Biden in favor of a 3rd party is a de facto vote for conservatives.

      You want 3rd party to be a viable vote? Vote for democrats who support ranked voting.

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          It’s not whoever I don’t like. It’s that “vote third party” is a conservative talking point used to bait liberals into wasting their votes. Because conservatives are already really good at presenting a unified front and consolidating votes, so the talking point only truly affects one side of the political spectrum.

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      I kinda had hopes for capital L Libertarians but oh man those guys are a special kind of nuts.