Juggling With Eggs

#Trump dementedly rambling late yesterday about #NATO :

“We would have always been there for them, but now, based on their actions, I guess we don't have to be, do we?" Trump told the ​audience.

"That sounds like a breaking story? Yes, sir. Is that breaking news? ​I think we just have breaking news, but that's the fact. I've been saying ‌that. ⁠Why would we be there for them if they're not there for us? They weren't there for us."

Yet largely ignored by media today.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-we-dont-have-be-there-nato-2026-03-27/

Mar 28 at 9:52amWeb
Show threadXanatos 2d ago

@JugglingWithEggs
We are there for them no problem but they need to get attack first without starting the war themselves.

It's that easy 🤷‍♂️

Show threadJuggling With Eggs2d ago

@Xanatos

Well yes, NATO is a defence treaty.

But the POTUS just talked about breaking up NATO because he doesn’t think it was there for him in his offensive actions…doesn’t that warrant some journalistic interrogation? Even if the angle is ‘why is a POTUS so casually suggesting the breakup of a 50 year alliance’? Shouldn’t someone care?

Show threadXanatos 2d ago

@JugglingWithEggs You are right, someone should care because he will put the USA in danger if he does leave the NATO. Sure the US is quite strong military but defending as part of a joined operation is properly much more effective.

But without removing him from the white house he will continue making stupid decisions. It's not in my hand to change that as a European citizen. I won't make a impact on that matter, sadly.

Hopefully the US citizen will solve that issue soon.

Show threadXanatos 2d ago

@JugglingWithEggs Also I don't think that any news is helping in the US right now.
It seems like most people stopped to trust the official media and get there information mainly from social media.

So a news article will probably not help that much inside the US.

Show threadJeremyJupiterJones 2d ago

@JugglingWithEggs

Another huge story noticeably missing from western media is Europe’s shifting economic and trade relationship from US to China.

Show threadJuggling With Eggs2d ago

@jeremy_pm

I agree. The US is no longer a reliable trading partner.

Show threadInfoseepage2d ago
@JugglingWithEggs The US is no longer a reliable partner for security collaboration. The Trump regime should be seen as a 5th column within NATO. NATO would be best off formally reforming without the US in it and executing a mass scale rearmament and weapons development effort to ensure defense capability independent of the US and consider scenarios where the US is a belligerent acting against the integrity of the sovereignty of NATO nations.
Show threadepicdemiologist2d ago
@JugglingWithEggs guess 9/11 didn't count?