I am really tired of listening to Marco Rubio praising Trump for getting Europe to spend 5 percent of GDP on defence.
No country is spending more on defence to please Trump. We are spending more, because we are alone in the war with Putin. We are spending more, so we can lead the world, now that Trump has put the US in the back seat.
We could have finished Putin together, and the world would have been safer and wealthier. But instead Trump wanted a war with Venezuela. That is how dumb this is.
@randahl
"No country is spending more on defence to please Trump. We are spending more, because we are alone in the war with Putin."
Only Ukrainians are alone in the war against putin.
You are not fighting.
You can't even seize the russian assets frozen in the EU countries.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e025vyppeo
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations
https://archive.ph/vrEJw
https://www.ft.com/content/95efca74-4299-11ea-a43a-c4b328d9061c
"Trump's fossil fuel donors want a world war, in hopes it'll preserve their increasingly worthless assets.
They fear a future freed of their control."
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-cracks-down-on-russian-oil-sector-as-revenues-plummet
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/nx-s1-5645803/turkey-is-in-the-crosshairs-over-russians-ghost-fleet
https://www.eco-business.com/opinion/clean-energy-is-inevitable-despite-trump/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/antonio-guterres-energy-transition-speech-economics.html
@randahl Truth in a nutshell. Here in the US, we need Europe to continue beating the drum.
@randahl It's all he's got, though. He's a coat-rider, completely useless except for his role as cheerleader for the regime. He's a hype man. He has no value on his own.
The 5% thing was a NATO pledge from long ago, and the US is actually right about that, but it's a very old story. At best, this is cover for the real story, "The rest of NATO is giving up on us."
@randahl it's a wise move, to ease reliance on trump and the USA out of the equation. Makes it easier to turn our backs (though it's wise to keep an eye on the rear view mirror, because we don't want to get backstabbed)
@randahl
Trump cosplaying Putin by bullying Venezuela.
@randahl NATO is dead. The EU + UK defence must be established immediately as a response to American fascism and betrayal.
@randahl We aren’t leading shit. Our representatives are still playing ball with Trump admin. We need a determined leadership and time to catch up.
@randahl I may add, we have to spend more because soon we'll have to defend ourselves against Russia and the US at the same time. You know... a bit like Poland is 1939.
@randahl I may add, we have to spend more because soon we'll have to defend ourselves against Russia and the US at the same time. You know... a bit like Poland is 1939.
Trump is not only in the back seat, he's in the back seat of Putin's car, discussing how best to carve up Ukraine.
@randahl
"In this world!"
No, Mr. Fink, let's be honest. Europeans are spending 5% (by 2035) because reality has caught up with us. When we woke up, we were naked, Big Brother was gone, and the knife-wielding man was standing at the bedroom door. As for Big Brother's interchangeable spokesperson Marco Rubio, he's just doing what he's told, Propaganda Boss Trump.
@randahl and so that we can throw the US out of Greenland 😉
@randahl Trump and Rubio are right: it's a good thing EU spends more to defend itself, not to buy US weapons, of course, European ones, so that we grow up and don't depend on not only an unreliable ex-partner but on a sinking country in the deep dark waters of fascism and theocracy
@randahl Somehow I get the impression we also have to spend more money, to defend against an invasion from the convicted felon in the White House
