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Trump hates NATO because: 1) Putin tells him to, and 2) NATO doesn’t kick up bribes to him

Read the article. Bad idea. Bad, bad, bad.

Gimlet Eye, the problem is. Not so long before Trump and all the problems of his first administration we had Bush Jr. Remember "weapons of mass destruction" was the excuse to push for a war. And they never appeared. America is not what it was 30 or 40 years ago.

The "tiny voices from below" will keep bringing it up to get people used to the idea existing, until one of the cult leaders finally sells it as his own idea and it'll be pulled through.

Gurney embraces the usual fallacy in this obituary of assuming the future of US-allied relations will follow a linear trajectory from today's bad place. Yes, post-Trump relations won't be the same, but there's a powerful underlying logic to the partnership that remains.

There's no other option post-Trump but for all the allies to rub along together.

If, once the USA recovers its sanity -- it will -- then the advantages of a good relationship will return, and so will a good relationship. Admittedly, there will be some suspicions. Trump is the endpoint of long process of decline. After him, the USA starts going back up.

A hot minute because of the Soviet threat.

All true, but I recall a Frenchman telling me some decades ago that they bore no real grudge against the Germans, because they were "sincerely contrite". Americans are already contrite about Trump. The backlash against him is building and will become overwhelming.

Oh, I'm thinking that many of Trump's stooges will be facing judgement from 2029. Not Trump -- he is most unlikely to be around by then. The next administration will have a huge clean-up job.

Some of the replies remind me that denial is not a river in Egypt.

It’s going to take a lot of work over a long time by serious patriotic people to repair these friendships that have guaranteed our mutual security and prosperity for decades.

I completely disagree ! Never before in the history of the alliance has a U.S. leader openly committed an act of betrayal by working for the Kremlin’s KGB-FSB gang. Russian barbarians openly mock you.

They'll live. It's always been that way.

Some Americans understand the damage being done, some dont. There is arguement that US needed to pull back, not be so omnipresent but that's a far cry from being what is is now which is arguably a Russian ally. This is what happens when you reelect someone like trump knowing how deeply flawed he is.

NATO’s obituary gets written every decade, and every decade reality proves it wrong. When threats rise, alliances matter more, not less. Strength isn’t going it alone- it’s standing together. #NATO #NationalSecurity #Alliances