Man threatening to leave NATO, and invade member states, demands NATO reciprocity in a war he started. 🤡

The Onion couldn't have done a better job.

@koen_hufkens

Unbelievable indeed, when irony is truth...

@xs4me2 @koen_hufkens

Personally, I prefer natto to NATO. Go to war? I prefer not to.
Fight for your rights. Not to worry. We'll win!

@koen_hufkens

He's now threatening extortion if he doesn't get help with the violence he started.

@glutto @koen_hufkens Since Trump has demonstrated he views everything as games where he will push everything as far as possible in his own short term favour, that threat becomes meaningless. Trump will do what serves Trump, no matter whether he manages to remember anything or not.
@glutto @koen_hufkens Trump threatening to remember something doesn't feel like much of a threat, honestly.
@koen_hufkens He's threatening me with a good time.

@koen_hufkens
And the foreign minister of Denmark is already considering sending ships to help Trump.

If we do, Trump will have every reason to expect us to help him invade Greenland later.

@leeloo @koen_hufkens

He will be *particularly* insistent on Denmark assisting the invasion of Greenland.

(Iceland and Norway will exchange bottles of "fuselfrei Akkavit" over dodging *those* bullets.)

@koen_hufkens I'm surprised he hasn't tried invoking Article 5 yet!
@mancavgeek @koen_hufkens Article 5 only applies to Europe and North America. This is why it did not trigger during the Falkland War…
@thias @koen_hufkens I meant that I'm surprised that he didn't try claiming that it was Iran that attacked the US.
@koen_hufkens yup.
I'd like to add the Galaxy brain sequence of demanding the member countries spend more on defense ... before threatening them with invasion.
@koen_hufkens
Does 'The Onion' have a major source in Moscow, initials "VP"?
@koen_hufkens Watch UK at least cave and join in

@Mimesatwork @koen_hufkens There no appetite for war in #uk at all, right across the political spectrum. Even so called "far right" simply want other people to go fight the war whilst they sit at home on the sofa. And they openly say they will refuse conscription.

Conscription will be necessary and mandatory, because UK does not have either the military industrial output or the service personnel required to go into a long drawn out war, which this will absolutely be.

#iran #iranwar

@Rastal @koen_hufkens That's good to hear. I'm keeping an eye out how that will play out in practise given Starmer and his connection with Trump.

Is it possible for Starmer to be ousted?

@Mimesatwork @koen_hufkens

Starmer is a damn weathervane, some week he'll get two days of headlines and cave.

Streeting would be even worse though so yay UK.

@koen_hufkens The Onion would, at least, still try to find a way to make it funny. You'd hope European leaders, at this point would not fall for this trick, but sadly I think that is not guaranteed.
@maccruiskeen I think they will tow the line in sofar that they will be willing to protect their own assets (Cyprus, some bases), but not much more than that. I think at this point, especially after the Greenland remarks, they full know that their word is null and void.
@koen_hufkens i hope people stop denying the reality that we are in the middle of a ww3.

@koen_hufkens

Man who makes onions job either incredible easy or impossible

@koen_hufkens Hell, the Onion helped get us here.
@TagYourToe Thought that this was Project 2025
@koen_hufkens Honestly The Onion might have to turn to actual journalism if they want to survive cause the satire thing is clearly not working anymore when reality is this stupid.
@koen_hufkens the "german onion": Trump threatens allies to attack them if they don't help him.
It's not so far from reality.
https://mastodon.social/@derpostillon/116238680754485162

@koen_hufkens

NATO, being a defensive organisation.

Not a attacking one.