Or is he extorting Ukraine? I think Trump is talking about money we've already appropriated. He said he wants security on the money we already gave them, referring to previous European appropriations as "loans".losthighway wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:04 am Trump pushing Ukraine to get their rare minerals is a classic 20th century neocon move. Imperial as fuck.
Everyone is saying, "it plays well to the base". I'm not sure Chuds really give a single fuck about The Munich Conference. Maybe they've become more literate, but I doubt it.Gramsci wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2025 4:03 am I love it how some slub from Ohio thinks he can rock up to the European Security Conference and lecture Europeans for not being far right enough. I wonder if he realised just unimportant is opinions would have been regarded. That speech was 100% for chuds back in the States.
IMO, he went there to say, "Europeans should up military spending or Russia is going to eat you." Or more to the point, he's extorting Europe. Buy our weapons or else.