This poison in the media needs to stop. by 6ixStringJack

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This poison in the media needs to stop.

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 12:50 AM

SALON: America's allies adjust to Trump's abandonment

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/26/americas-allies-adjust-to-abandonment/

Heather Digby Parton is a middle-IQ propagandist with an agenda. She is not a journalist. And anyone with two firing neurons should throw her opinions in the trashcan where they belong.

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 2:53 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

America's ~~allies~~ leeches are too busy shooting themselves in the foot to adjust to Trump's abandonment.

They just introduced a 16th sanctions package against Russia, even tho the first 15 only crippled their energy supplies and industries, and drove up costs at home.

Between that, their "green energy" fixation, and their "woke" mind- virus, America's "allies" can't even stop themselves from slipping backwards, much less become the strong, independent defenders of democracy (/snark) they imagine themselves.

They're fucked.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 10:24 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
SALON: America's allies adjust to Trump's abandonment

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/26/americas-allies-adjust-to-abandonment/

Heather Digby Parton is a middle-IQ propagandist with an agenda. She is not a journalist. And anyone with two firing neurons should throw her opinions in the trashcan where they belong.

6ix, while you are sleeping late because of a hangover, Parton was writing:

. . . the alliances that were formed after WWII to ensure there would not be another catastrophic world war held together the peace, prosperity, and security of the last 80 years. Abruptly destroying them on the whim of a vengeful, 78-year-old would-be strongman whose definition of an ally is one that unquestionably does his bidding with no question of reciprocation is difficult to accept. But it seems they have no choice and the consequences are monumental.

One of the main purposes of the NATO alliance and the rest of the American security guarantees of the past 80 years was to ensure that the long-standing enmity between the nations involved in the two world wars would not compel them to re-arm and do it all again. The brief alliance between the U.S. and the Soviets to beat the Nazis didn't last and the Cold War that ensued featured proxy wars all over the world as the two nuclear powers competed for influence. But that stand-off did manage to prevent the worst case scenario and the United States and its allies ultimately prevailed with the break-up of the Soviet Union accomplished without another massive conflagration.

That happened over 35 years ago now and it was not a ridiculous notion to think that a re-evaluation of that post-WWII world order was overdue. Even though Trump's reasoning was puerile and uninformed, it wasn't a completely outrageous request in his first term that Europe should pick up more of the tab for their national defense. America's security umbrella was expensive and the world was changing so a pullback to allow others to take a bigger role wasn't a totally crazy idea.

But then Russia invaded Ukraine and the logic of the NATO alliance was quite suddenly made relevant again. In fact, it was so relevant that countries that had long held back from joining the alliance, Finland and Sweden, were so alarmed by the Russian aggression that they finally joined up. The alliance agreed to supply Ukraine with the military supplies and arms it would need to defend itself, not merely out of sympathy but the knowledge that this kind of aggression was exactly how things had gotten out of control twice before. As it turns out 80 years isn't very long in the great scheme of things after all.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump is oblivious to all that and wouldn't care anyway. For reasons no one may ever fully understand he has an almost preternatural affinity for Russian president Vladimir Putin and seethes with resentment toward Europe. Given that it has elected Trump twice now, Europe is belatedly realizing that the U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and are speaking openly about arming up. . . .

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 10:32 AM

THG

Jeffery Epstein said Donald Trump was his best friend for more than a decade. Epstein trafficked in children. Putin seems to have an inordinate amount of influence over Trump. Do the math. 1+1 in this case probably = 2.

T

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 1:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by THG:
Jeffery Epstein said Donald Trump was his best friend for more than a decade. Epstein trafficked in children. Putin seems to have an inordinate amount of influence over Trump. Do the math. 1+1 in this case probably = 2.

T

I've been hearing your dumbass math for 8 years and you've been wrong every time.

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