“For more than a year the president has abused our traditional allies.”
The U.S. complaints about NATO allies not pulling their weight on defense spending — often described as "burden-sharing" or "free-riding" issues — have been going on for decades, essentially as long as NATO itself has existed (founded in 1949).
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in 1953 that “the American well can run dry” and urged European allies to take on more responsibility for their own defense.
Trump has rightly criticized NATO allies for not spending enough on their own defense, highlighting that the U.S. bears a disproportionate share of the alliance's burden. Trump has more directly and repeatedly demanded that NATO nations increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP. This push gained significant traction, with NATO allies agreeing at the 2025 summit in The Hague to a new target of 5% of GDP (by 2035).
It is not abuse to ask our “Allies” to pay for what is essentially their own national defense, allowing them to divert most of their budgets to support social programs and lifestyle.
“Now he wants their help and they’re saying no.”
Once again, as we do all of the heavy lifting to secure the region from the threat of nuclear ballistic missiles that would easily be directed at most of Europe, why exactly shouldn’t we expect our so-called Allies to at least lend their support?
Iran has been a threat to the world and a cash cow in support of Muslim terrorism for the greater part of the last 50 years.
When you consider all of the plots against European countries, why shouldn’t we expect help?
“The president refused to listen when told that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if they were attacked. Now we’re getting hammered at the pumps.”
Hammered at the pumps? Is your memory that short that you forgot how much gasoline was during the Biden years? Or, how all of you Lefties thought higher prices were a good thing to help save the planet?
I love the selective outrage. Besides, if Trump succeeds, and we should all be hoping for that, there is a very good chance that gas prices will drop significantly.
Also, I can almost guarantee that the Strait of Hormuz was definitely part of the “gaming” during strategy sessions.
As for the War Dept. expenditures:
The food supported troop feeding, morale programs, or large events at military installations globally (the U.S. military has millions of personnel, contractors, and facilities).
End-of-year surges and bulk food/furniture buys have happened for decades. The specific dollar amounts stand out because they are itemized in public spending data, but they represent a tiny fraction of the overall $93 billion (most went to standard contracts, grants, and operations).
These are legal procurements. Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), operate under a "use it or lose it" budgeting system. Unspent funds at the end of the fiscal year (September 30) often cannot be carried over easily and may lead to reduced budgets in the following year. As a result, September frequently sees a surge in spending as departments rush to obligate remaining money on contracts, grants, supplies, and equipment.
If you don’t like it, complain to your Congressman or Senator. They are the ones who control the purse strings and budgets. Not Trump.
You never fail to disappoint with a load of BS MEPD.
Yes, Trump pushed NATO members to pay more, I have no problem with that. That's not the abuse the letter writer's talking about. If you don't know about it that's because you refuse to find quality sources. Not to mention Trump's incredibly irresponsible and dangerous public statements about possibly pulling out of NATO.
Again, NATO is a mutual DEFENSE organization, not a hey-I'm-an-idiot-and-don't-know-what-I'm-doing-so come-bail-me-out-of-the-horrific-position-my-stupidity-has-put-my-country-in organization.
Your BS about the $200 billion request is priceless, though moronic and clearly irrelevant to the request for more money to propagate Trump's ill-conceived war. Yes, we know the Straits being closed was known to Trump, as were the public Iranian statements they would attack neighboring countries, but Trump's too stupid to listen to anyone so he went ahead and attacked anyway, then reverts to his no one could have known BS about things everyone knew. Anything to take the focus off the Trump-Epstein files.
Keep defending your pedophile-protecting accused pedophile MEPD by repeating his lies without giving a single thought to what he's really doing.
NATO spending rose sharply under Trump's pressure — allies finally paid more because he made it uncomfortable not to. That's not 'abuse,' that's leadership. Your 'irresponsible' pullout talk was leverage that worked. As for the rest: recycled smears, Epstein guilt-by-association, and 'Trump stupidly started a war everyone saw coming' ignore Iran's decades of provocations.
If you're going to debate policy, it requires evidence, not hyperbole, insults, personal conspiracy theories, or pedophile tropes.
If you want to have an adult debate, act like one.
Go back and rewatch the videos of American presidents and other leaders saying that Iran would never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
The same was said about North Korea, and we did not prevent it from happening there. That may have been a mistake, but at least North Korea is isolated for the time being. Iran is not.
Iran should never be allowed a nuclear weapon, no matter the cost. The alternative is that this terrorist state would blackmail the world or worse, use the weapon against its enemies when it felt threatened.
Go back and learn history. Iran had already agreed via treaty with Obama not to produce nuclear weapons and was complying with the terms. Trump idiotically withdrew from the treaty and has now compounded his error exponentially, costing American lives, damaging the American and global economy and setting up decades of threats to national security. All of it caused by his jealousy of Obama, who is all the things Trump wishes he was, as well as his complete inability to understand complex issues and total ignorance of history and diplomacy. Trump doesn't even understand that NATO isn't there to jump in when he starts a war, it's for mutual DEFENSE.
Once again, your opinion is oversimplified and biased by your hatred for Trump.
The JCPOA only temporarily constrained Iran’s nuclear weapons pathways; it was never a permanent ban. The deal contained built-in expiration dates and eventually collapsed amid mutual recriminations. After the agreement’s main provisions lapsed, Iran’s program grew far more advanced than during the deal’s tenure, with higher enrichment levels, greater infrastructure, and shorter breakout times—while verification remained inadequate and distrust deepened.
Iran represented a genuine proliferation risk primarily because of its sophisticated enrichment program, dangerously short breakout timelines, unresolved safeguards concerns at the IAEA, and its missile delivery capabilities. The fundamental threat was that Tehran could quickly produce the fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon if it decided to cross that threshold.
As for NATO, our European “partners” lackluster support raises valid points about reciprocity:
The U.S. bears disproportionate global burdens and expects allies to share risks when American forces are engaged.
Limited access to European bases during a crisis frustrates power projection.
Divergent threat perceptions: Europeans view Russia as the primary existential threat and prioritize avoiding a wider Middle East war that could spike energy costs or divert resources from Ukraine/Eastern Europe.
Antisemitism in Europe has grown significantly in recent years, along with an increased Muslim population influencing political decisions.
As usual MEPD, you are misinformed. Iran was living up to its part of the non-nuclear treaty and we would have continued to work out not only the verification and other pieces of the deal but negotiated a continuation of it. Instead, Trump pulled us out of it due to his petty jealousy of Obama. Iran became a much bigger proliferation risk after Trump pulled us out of the deal, and has now made an even bigger mistake to try to fix his initial mistake.
It's absolutely insane for you to claim anyone's view of Trump is clouded by their feelings about him when you are so blinded by your moronic and misplaced loyalty to your dear leader. Trump isn't worth hating, he's an infant; I hate what he does to our country, our allies, and the world.
Your talking points about NATO again insanely overlook that it's a mutual DEFENSE organization. It doesn't exist to help inept American presidents who choose to start wars. If Iran attacked us or one of our allies first, THEN NATO allies would jump in to support. NATO also doesn't exist to help American presidents project imperialistic power. The U.S. under Trump has bailed out of many soft power projection programs that China is now taking over, and the incredibly stupid short-sightedness of Trump will cost us dearly in the decades to come. Those programs are much better options than kidnapping and killing foreign leaders openly in brazen attempts to impose our wannabe dictators' will on other countries. Trump has proven conclusively he's completely unable to govern our country, much less others.
Yes, Europe has different threat perceptions than Trump. You know who else does? American intelligence. There is no credible information that Iran was close to making bombs or missiles that could reach us according to our own intelligence agencies. Trump, of course, as he embarrassingly did in Helsinki, chooses to ignore them and follow his own ignorant path. With Iran, however, it's at least not because he was following orders from Putin.
Antisemitism has grown everywhere in recent years, a disgusting trend. Do you know who one of the key figures that made it possible is? Your dear leader. Our country and the world had made significant strides with regard to racism and bigotry, and then came Trump, who spoke and acted like a true racist and bigot and still got elected president. That was the beginning of a huge swell of racist and bigoted behavior, as Trump was saying things out loud no other politician could have continued to have a political career after saying. Unfortunately, Trump proved that racism and bigotry hadn't gone away after all, they had simply gone underground. Trump's racist and bigoted statements made it seem acceptable again, and those traits are strong in his hard-core MAGA base, which is the most despicable and dangerous part of the MAGA crowd. Divisiveness and dehumanization of anyone that doesn't agree with Trump or do what he wants is a horrible example for a president to set for our country.
Trump's attempts to paint his dictatorial attempt to take over higher education as somehow attempting to fight antisemitism is right up there with his biggest cons, like attempting to "fix" our elections, which need no fixing. What he really wants to do is fix them so the Republicans can continue winning while not representing the majority of American voters.
All the while, his real goal is to take our attention off the Trump-Epstein files in hopes we'll stop digging and find out exactly what a monster he really is.
His sycophants will continue to conspire to cover up for him as best they can, in the hope they can keep the truth from us until after he's out of office, and gullible fools like you will continue to support him without thinking about who he really is.
Thankfully there are people that will not go along with the conspiracy in Congress, and the American people are waking up to the danger he represents to all of us.
MEPD, you call Trump's irresponsible and dangerous talk of leaving NATO "leverage" while ignoring that it emboldened Putin to attack Ukraine thinking NATO was weakened by Trump's attacks on it to the point they wouldn't respond. Thankfully Biden showed real leadership and pulled NATO together to respond to Putin's aggression properly, which Trump wouldn't have done because he takes orders from Putin, at least in part due to his debt to Putin for helping him get elected with his misinformation and disinformation campaign, which Putin has admitted to.
Pointing out that Trump doesn't understand NATO's role isn't a "recycled smear", it's obvious to anyone that isn't in the cult. His public statements demonstrate it clearly, as did his actions attempting to reverse everything Obama ever did without regard to their value.
The thousands and thousands of communications involving Trump in the Epstein files should show any thinking person plenty to think he was at the very least involved with the pedophile ring as a user. The fact that they're still desperately covering up large amounts of documents while redacting names (both actions illegal by the way) should give even more pause. That a 15 year-old girl leveled charges Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13 AND Trump's DOJ tried to hide the documents would be enough for most people to have a strong suspicion Trump is pushing his people to cover up serious illegal acts but, again, you are so clouded by your devotion to your dear leader you can't see the obvious truth.
You should try convincing your dear leader to start using evidence, not hyperbole, insults, personal conspiracy theories, or tropes. Your devotion to him leads you to follow his example of projecting his and your behavior on others.
Trump has no policies, he has childish, infantile whims, like kidnapping a leader he doesn't like or won't do what he wants, or starting a war against all sensible advice. Get a clue, get the facts, stop falling for the con man's lies.
Instead of engaging with facts, you default to personal attacks and baseless accusations. What about all of the accusations of corruption for 'Ole Joe and his family? How about all of those "pre-emptive" pardons? You good with those?
On Biden’s pre-invasion leadership in Ukraine: Russia spent roughly 10–11 months openly telegraphing its plans — with massive troop buildups (over 100,000 soldiers by late 2021), aggressive rhetoric, impossible ultimatums to NATO, and information warfare — all while denying any intent to invade. What did Biden do during that critical window? He publicly floated the idea of a "minor incursion" by Russia, suggesting NATO might fracture over how to respond and implying limited consequences for anything short of a full-scale attack. He repeatedly ruled out sending U.S. troops. Lethal aid remained modest and slow until the final weeks. And the administration’s overall message projected hesitation rather than ironclad resolve. The result? Putin received mixed signals and a clear picture of America’s red lines — and he chose to cross them anyway on February 24, 2022. While the White House issued warnings and shared intelligence, Biden's approach failed as a deterrence and emboldened Moscow by highlighting the limits of U.S. commitment.In short, Biden didn’t stop the invasion — he watched it unfold after months of visible warning signs.
I gotta hand it to you MEPD, you always make me laugh.
You mention the baseless accusations against Biden that even the insane clown posse the Republicans in the House put together could find ZERO proof of after scouring all of Biden's e-mail, among other things. ZERO. Meanwhile, you never mention all the things Trump has been found guilty of or the graft, corruption, bribery and extortion he has shamelessly partaken in.
Just like how you don't acknowledge how Trump's public talk about leaving NATO emboldened Putin. You'd rather fault Biden for being clear he wasn't looking to put boots on the ground; are you paying attention at all? Americans don't want their soldiers in far-off wars; it's one of the reasons Trump has hesitated to do so in Iran. Biden making that clear wasn't a bug, it was a feature.
Also, Biden spent the time Putin was building up his forces rebuilding NATO after the damage Trump's public comments did to it. He successfully (because he actually knows how to employ diplomacy and understands nuance and complex situations, unlike Trump) marshalled the NATO members to join us in resisting Putin's invasion.
Speaking of things you never mention (anything Trump does), how'd you like his Easter message? "Open the f***ing Strait". Very presidential, very diplomatic. Doesn't sound anything like an infant or a schoolyard bully who's frustrated he can't get his way.
I'm still waiting for your brilliant analysis of how Trump couldn't possibly be guilty of anything to do with the pedophile ring despite the thousands of communications involving him already released plus the thousands more they're still hiding.
Is your theory the same as the 140 Russian contacts during the 2016 election? That Trump and Putin's people were talking about Girl Scout cookie orders instead of the obvious cooperation even Putin has admitted? How do you sleep at night supporting this proven sexual predator?
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“For more than a year the president has abused our traditional allies.”
The U.S. complaints about NATO allies not pulling their weight on defense spending — often described as "burden-sharing" or "free-riding" issues — have been going on for decades, essentially as long as NATO itself has existed (founded in 1949).
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in 1953 that “the American well can run dry” and urged European allies to take on more responsibility for their own defense.
Trump has rightly criticized NATO allies for not spending enough on their own defense, highlighting that the U.S. bears a disproportionate share of the alliance's burden. Trump has more directly and repeatedly demanded that NATO nations increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP. This push gained significant traction, with NATO allies agreeing at the 2025 summit in The Hague to a new target of 5% of GDP (by 2035).
It is not abuse to ask our “Allies” to pay for what is essentially their own national defense, allowing them to divert most of their budgets to support social programs and lifestyle.
“Now he wants their help and they’re saying no.”
Once again, as we do all of the heavy lifting to secure the region from the threat of nuclear ballistic missiles that would easily be directed at most of Europe, why exactly shouldn’t we expect our so-called Allies to at least lend their support?
Iran has been a threat to the world and a cash cow in support of Muslim terrorism for the greater part of the last 50 years.
When you consider all of the plots against European countries, why shouldn’t we expect help?
“The president refused to listen when told that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if they were attacked. Now we’re getting hammered at the pumps.”
Hammered at the pumps? Is your memory that short that you forgot how much gasoline was during the Biden years? Or, how all of you Lefties thought higher prices were a good thing to help save the planet?
I love the selective outrage. Besides, if Trump succeeds, and we should all be hoping for that, there is a very good chance that gas prices will drop significantly.
Also, I can almost guarantee that the Strait of Hormuz was definitely part of the “gaming” during strategy sessions.
As for the War Dept. expenditures:
The food supported troop feeding, morale programs, or large events at military installations globally (the U.S. military has millions of personnel, contractors, and facilities).
End-of-year surges and bulk food/furniture buys have happened for decades. The specific dollar amounts stand out because they are itemized in public spending data, but they represent a tiny fraction of the overall $93 billion (most went to standard contracts, grants, and operations).
These are legal procurements. Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), operate under a "use it or lose it" budgeting system. Unspent funds at the end of the fiscal year (September 30) often cannot be carried over easily and may lead to reduced budgets in the following year. As a result, September frequently sees a surge in spending as departments rush to obligate remaining money on contracts, grants, supplies, and equipment.
If you don’t like it, complain to your Congressman or Senator. They are the ones who control the purse strings and budgets. Not Trump.
You never fail to disappoint with a load of BS MEPD.
Yes, Trump pushed NATO members to pay more, I have no problem with that. That's not the abuse the letter writer's talking about. If you don't know about it that's because you refuse to find quality sources. Not to mention Trump's incredibly irresponsible and dangerous public statements about possibly pulling out of NATO.
Again, NATO is a mutual DEFENSE organization, not a hey-I'm-an-idiot-and-don't-know-what-I'm-doing-so come-bail-me-out-of-the-horrific-position-my-stupidity-has-put-my-country-in organization.
Your BS about the $200 billion request is priceless, though moronic and clearly irrelevant to the request for more money to propagate Trump's ill-conceived war. Yes, we know the Straits being closed was known to Trump, as were the public Iranian statements they would attack neighboring countries, but Trump's too stupid to listen to anyone so he went ahead and attacked anyway, then reverts to his no one could have known BS about things everyone knew. Anything to take the focus off the Trump-Epstein files.
Keep defending your pedophile-protecting accused pedophile MEPD by repeating his lies without giving a single thought to what he's really doing.
NATO spending rose sharply under Trump's pressure — allies finally paid more because he made it uncomfortable not to. That's not 'abuse,' that's leadership. Your 'irresponsible' pullout talk was leverage that worked. As for the rest: recycled smears, Epstein guilt-by-association, and 'Trump stupidly started a war everyone saw coming' ignore Iran's decades of provocations.
If you're going to debate policy, it requires evidence, not hyperbole, insults, personal conspiracy theories, or pedophile tropes.
If you want to have an adult debate, act like one.
Go back and rewatch the videos of American presidents and other leaders saying that Iran would never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
The same was said about North Korea, and we did not prevent it from happening there. That may have been a mistake, but at least North Korea is isolated for the time being. Iran is not.
Iran should never be allowed a nuclear weapon, no matter the cost. The alternative is that this terrorist state would blackmail the world or worse, use the weapon against its enemies when it felt threatened.
Go back and learn history. Iran had already agreed via treaty with Obama not to produce nuclear weapons and was complying with the terms. Trump idiotically withdrew from the treaty and has now compounded his error exponentially, costing American lives, damaging the American and global economy and setting up decades of threats to national security. All of it caused by his jealousy of Obama, who is all the things Trump wishes he was, as well as his complete inability to understand complex issues and total ignorance of history and diplomacy. Trump doesn't even understand that NATO isn't there to jump in when he starts a war, it's for mutual DEFENSE.
Once again, your opinion is oversimplified and biased by your hatred for Trump.
The JCPOA only temporarily constrained Iran’s nuclear weapons pathways; it was never a permanent ban. The deal contained built-in expiration dates and eventually collapsed amid mutual recriminations. After the agreement’s main provisions lapsed, Iran’s program grew far more advanced than during the deal’s tenure, with higher enrichment levels, greater infrastructure, and shorter breakout times—while verification remained inadequate and distrust deepened.
Iran represented a genuine proliferation risk primarily because of its sophisticated enrichment program, dangerously short breakout timelines, unresolved safeguards concerns at the IAEA, and its missile delivery capabilities. The fundamental threat was that Tehran could quickly produce the fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon if it decided to cross that threshold.
As for NATO, our European “partners” lackluster support raises valid points about reciprocity:
The U.S. bears disproportionate global burdens and expects allies to share risks when American forces are engaged.
Limited access to European bases during a crisis frustrates power projection.
Divergent threat perceptions: Europeans view Russia as the primary existential threat and prioritize avoiding a wider Middle East war that could spike energy costs or divert resources from Ukraine/Eastern Europe.
Antisemitism in Europe has grown significantly in recent years, along with an increased Muslim population influencing political decisions.
As usual MEPD, you are misinformed. Iran was living up to its part of the non-nuclear treaty and we would have continued to work out not only the verification and other pieces of the deal but negotiated a continuation of it. Instead, Trump pulled us out of it due to his petty jealousy of Obama. Iran became a much bigger proliferation risk after Trump pulled us out of the deal, and has now made an even bigger mistake to try to fix his initial mistake.
It's absolutely insane for you to claim anyone's view of Trump is clouded by their feelings about him when you are so blinded by your moronic and misplaced loyalty to your dear leader. Trump isn't worth hating, he's an infant; I hate what he does to our country, our allies, and the world.
Your talking points about NATO again insanely overlook that it's a mutual DEFENSE organization. It doesn't exist to help inept American presidents who choose to start wars. If Iran attacked us or one of our allies first, THEN NATO allies would jump in to support. NATO also doesn't exist to help American presidents project imperialistic power. The U.S. under Trump has bailed out of many soft power projection programs that China is now taking over, and the incredibly stupid short-sightedness of Trump will cost us dearly in the decades to come. Those programs are much better options than kidnapping and killing foreign leaders openly in brazen attempts to impose our wannabe dictators' will on other countries. Trump has proven conclusively he's completely unable to govern our country, much less others.
Yes, Europe has different threat perceptions than Trump. You know who else does? American intelligence. There is no credible information that Iran was close to making bombs or missiles that could reach us according to our own intelligence agencies. Trump, of course, as he embarrassingly did in Helsinki, chooses to ignore them and follow his own ignorant path. With Iran, however, it's at least not because he was following orders from Putin.
Antisemitism has grown everywhere in recent years, a disgusting trend. Do you know who one of the key figures that made it possible is? Your dear leader. Our country and the world had made significant strides with regard to racism and bigotry, and then came Trump, who spoke and acted like a true racist and bigot and still got elected president. That was the beginning of a huge swell of racist and bigoted behavior, as Trump was saying things out loud no other politician could have continued to have a political career after saying. Unfortunately, Trump proved that racism and bigotry hadn't gone away after all, they had simply gone underground. Trump's racist and bigoted statements made it seem acceptable again, and those traits are strong in his hard-core MAGA base, which is the most despicable and dangerous part of the MAGA crowd. Divisiveness and dehumanization of anyone that doesn't agree with Trump or do what he wants is a horrible example for a president to set for our country.
Trump's attempts to paint his dictatorial attempt to take over higher education as somehow attempting to fight antisemitism is right up there with his biggest cons, like attempting to "fix" our elections, which need no fixing. What he really wants to do is fix them so the Republicans can continue winning while not representing the majority of American voters.
All the while, his real goal is to take our attention off the Trump-Epstein files in hopes we'll stop digging and find out exactly what a monster he really is.
His sycophants will continue to conspire to cover up for him as best they can, in the hope they can keep the truth from us until after he's out of office, and gullible fools like you will continue to support him without thinking about who he really is.
Thankfully there are people that will not go along with the conspiracy in Congress, and the American people are waking up to the danger he represents to all of us.
MEPD, you call Trump's irresponsible and dangerous talk of leaving NATO "leverage" while ignoring that it emboldened Putin to attack Ukraine thinking NATO was weakened by Trump's attacks on it to the point they wouldn't respond. Thankfully Biden showed real leadership and pulled NATO together to respond to Putin's aggression properly, which Trump wouldn't have done because he takes orders from Putin, at least in part due to his debt to Putin for helping him get elected with his misinformation and disinformation campaign, which Putin has admitted to.
Pointing out that Trump doesn't understand NATO's role isn't a "recycled smear", it's obvious to anyone that isn't in the cult. His public statements demonstrate it clearly, as did his actions attempting to reverse everything Obama ever did without regard to their value.
The thousands and thousands of communications involving Trump in the Epstein files should show any thinking person plenty to think he was at the very least involved with the pedophile ring as a user. The fact that they're still desperately covering up large amounts of documents while redacting names (both actions illegal by the way) should give even more pause. That a 15 year-old girl leveled charges Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13 AND Trump's DOJ tried to hide the documents would be enough for most people to have a strong suspicion Trump is pushing his people to cover up serious illegal acts but, again, you are so clouded by your devotion to your dear leader you can't see the obvious truth.
You should try convincing your dear leader to start using evidence, not hyperbole, insults, personal conspiracy theories, or tropes. Your devotion to him leads you to follow his example of projecting his and your behavior on others.
Trump has no policies, he has childish, infantile whims, like kidnapping a leader he doesn't like or won't do what he wants, or starting a war against all sensible advice. Get a clue, get the facts, stop falling for the con man's lies.
Instead of engaging with facts, you default to personal attacks and baseless accusations. What about all of the accusations of corruption for 'Ole Joe and his family? How about all of those "pre-emptive" pardons? You good with those?
On Biden’s pre-invasion leadership in Ukraine: Russia spent roughly 10–11 months openly telegraphing its plans — with massive troop buildups (over 100,000 soldiers by late 2021), aggressive rhetoric, impossible ultimatums to NATO, and information warfare — all while denying any intent to invade. What did Biden do during that critical window? He publicly floated the idea of a "minor incursion" by Russia, suggesting NATO might fracture over how to respond and implying limited consequences for anything short of a full-scale attack. He repeatedly ruled out sending U.S. troops. Lethal aid remained modest and slow until the final weeks. And the administration’s overall message projected hesitation rather than ironclad resolve. The result? Putin received mixed signals and a clear picture of America’s red lines — and he chose to cross them anyway on February 24, 2022. While the White House issued warnings and shared intelligence, Biden's approach failed as a deterrence and emboldened Moscow by highlighting the limits of U.S. commitment.In short, Biden didn’t stop the invasion — he watched it unfold after months of visible warning signs.
I gotta hand it to you MEPD, you always make me laugh.
You mention the baseless accusations against Biden that even the insane clown posse the Republicans in the House put together could find ZERO proof of after scouring all of Biden's e-mail, among other things. ZERO. Meanwhile, you never mention all the things Trump has been found guilty of or the graft, corruption, bribery and extortion he has shamelessly partaken in.
Just like how you don't acknowledge how Trump's public talk about leaving NATO emboldened Putin. You'd rather fault Biden for being clear he wasn't looking to put boots on the ground; are you paying attention at all? Americans don't want their soldiers in far-off wars; it's one of the reasons Trump has hesitated to do so in Iran. Biden making that clear wasn't a bug, it was a feature.
Also, Biden spent the time Putin was building up his forces rebuilding NATO after the damage Trump's public comments did to it. He successfully (because he actually knows how to employ diplomacy and understands nuance and complex situations, unlike Trump) marshalled the NATO members to join us in resisting Putin's invasion.
Speaking of things you never mention (anything Trump does), how'd you like his Easter message? "Open the f***ing Strait". Very presidential, very diplomatic. Doesn't sound anything like an infant or a schoolyard bully who's frustrated he can't get his way.
I'm still waiting for your brilliant analysis of how Trump couldn't possibly be guilty of anything to do with the pedophile ring despite the thousands of communications involving him already released plus the thousands more they're still hiding.
Is your theory the same as the 140 Russian contacts during the 2016 election? That Trump and Putin's people were talking about Girl Scout cookie orders instead of the obvious cooperation even Putin has admitted? How do you sleep at night supporting this proven sexual predator?
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