https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/israel-united-states-iran-hormuz-nato.html
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europe has rarely seen an offer quite this tempting
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/israel-united-states-iran-hormuz-nato.html
archive: https://archive.is/kLfjl
europe has rarely seen an offer quite this tempting
@davidgerard You broke it, you bought it.
@davidgerard there's even so many things Thomas L Friedman (what's the "L" for btw?) leaves out... like the whole trade war, withdrawals from UN, US Aid, the support for right-wing nut cases like Orban, the constant threat of NATO withdrawal, threats to European companies operating in US... and the fact he started his whole f*cking Iran war against European advice.
Of course Europe should leave full responsibility to the idiots that started all this. Also, there's China + renewables.
@davidgerard This fucking guy has never met a war he didn't love
@davidgerard "It is your duty to fix the situation we completely screwed up and if you don't you are all cowards."
You go first, Mr. F.
@davidgerard Fuck Off Friedman, you elected him, you deal with him.
So adorable.
When he was two I used to plead with my son to let me have some of his vegetables and he delighted in scoffing them.
Hello Mr Friedman. Europe is more than 2 years old.
@davidgerard He is certainly an opinion columnist.
@davidgerard In case of abysmal stupidity to ensue, here is the chain of events:
1) western armada arrives at strait
2) Trump declares biggliest victory in all of times ever and withdraws troops
3a) the west minus US makes a deal with Iran and is blasted for being weak and pathetic
3b) the west minus US can‘t end the shitshow Trump brought upon the world and is blasted for being weak and pathetic
4) somewhere on Epstein‘s island a coconut falls from a palm tree
@davidgerard Trump is excellent at making deals -- he keeps telling us, and he is a very stable genius, as we know -- so why don't we just wait until he's agreed one with the Iranians? He's *so* good at this, he even wrote a book on the subject, I believe.
@davidgerard American hubris at its finest. Shameful.
@davidgerard Tom is such a useful idiot.
@davidgerard how can anybody write something like this without realizing they sound like a satire of themselves
@davidgerard Just give them six more months, Tommy.
@davidgerard won't somebody _please_ think of the keynote speakers for fancy conferences in Dubai?
@davidgerard Another "conservative" American commentator with an ego so big you can see it from space.
@davidgerard you know how the best response to some of the cranks is to just ignore them?
'Who the fuck is Thomas Friedman?'
@rootwyrm @davidgerard The sad thing that unlike Trump, he doesn't have multiple neurological conditions for an excuse. Just Israel derangement syndrome.
@martinvermeer @davidgerard that fuckwit has *always* has more psychological issues than DSM-V can cover.
I mean, seriously. This is the same person who got a Pulitzer for covering the Sabra and Shatila massacre. In 1982. (One of IDF's many genocides.)
And yet Wikipedia claims this guy is 'liberal.' (Yeah, no, he's always been full on Nazi cheerleading crimes against humanity.)
@rootwyrm @martinvermeer technically, Asshole Personality Disorder is not in the DSM-5