Barfly
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NATO members are obliged to support one another if attacked, not to join wars of choice. That stipulation was made at the demand of the US, which also insisted that the commitment be territorially limited. “The treaty does not cover the entire world,” said Dean Acheson. “It applies only to the North Atlantic area.” He made clear that this had been the key American condition. “We deliberately avoided any implication that we were undertaking a global military commitment.” The Senate, worried about being dragged into European colonial wars, had threatened to refuse ratification unless the limitations were explicit. As John Foster Dulles put it: “If it were made global in scope, it would not be acceptable to the United States.” Despite all this, the only time that NATO has gone to war was indeed out of area, at the request of the US after 9/11.
The special relationship is completely dead. Trump brutally humiliates the UK on the world stage, mocking their aircraft carriers as pathetic toys compared to the US. He openly rejects their delayed offer for help, proving the Western coalition has completely fractured.
Photos of empty chairs at the NatCon conference, at CPAC after it went "New Right," and at similar events in the Postliberal ecosystem are not coincidental. They reflect an underacknowledged reality that none of these "populist" movements are actually popular with the American public. The Postliberal ecosystem is a tiny, hyper-online movement consisting of overlapping circles of the same people. They appear on each others' podcasts, write for each others' blogs, and occasionally host conferences together that almost nobody attends. But beyond that, they have almost no popular following. Instead, Postliberalism thrives on an astroturfed op of fake engagements and clicks. They obsess with their follower counts on X, and count their "victories" by the number of threads they can "ratio" by flooding them with internet sewage. But those clicks are almost entirely sockpuppets, bots, and troll farms located in Eastern Europe and Asia. Look at the engagements on almost any New Right "influencer" account. It's all Randomword Bunchofnumbers garbage accounts with anime profile pics, 12 followers, and a join date of 5 minutes ago. Also look at where the New Right publishes is dreck - it's all an in-house echochamber of their own substacks, blogs, and publications that almost nobody else reads. They do have one advantage though, and it's grossly inflated their reach in the White House. And that is JD Vance, who comes from the same ecosystem of fringe New Right intellectuals and their fanbase of internet sewage. And Vance, in turn, owes his elevation to the Vice Presidency to Trump's coattails.
@GenZod7 @dangambardello @IOHK_Charles @realDonaldTrump @JDVance Yes, stop watching MSNBC. Trump made mistakes like launching meme coins but at least he didn’t launch another war.
Refusing Trump permission to use British bases in Fairford Gloucestershire, Cyprus and Diego Garcia to mount a unilateral attack on Iran against international law takes some courage. Few mourn the murderous Ali Khamenei. But international law must be kept alive even in dark days
You are so warped.
@aravosis Good for you! Maybe your an ass when you drink? Kash was having a beer OFF the job and celebrating a tremendous victory. Get over it! Ya'll bunch of panty waist. Masculinity is back. Done with sissies!
🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Man sagt die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt. Aber in diesem Krieg wurde sie systematisch und kalt zerstört. Es sind unzählige solcher Bilder und Videos, die uns diese bittere Wahrheit ins Gesicht schreien. Momente, in denen 🇺🇦 Soldaten in Stille den US-Patch abnehmen, sind für mich eine Geste die alles sagt. Die erhoffte 🇺🇲 Hilfe kommt nicht mehr. Diese Geste zeigt, was jetzt in Washington passiert: Die Erzählung vom nahenden "Kollaps der Ukraine" ist eine bösartige Lüge. Sie wird als Waffe benutzt, um Kyiw zu einem schändlichen, unfairen Deal zu erpressen. Als kleine Stimme sehe ich diesen Verrat mit unendlicher Trauer. Es ist ein Stich ins Herz. Wir dürfen keine einzige Erwartung mehr an die offizielle Hilfe der USA knüpfen. Die Hoffnung ist verbraucht. Und jetzt? Alle schauen gebannt auf Berlin 🇩🇪. Ich sage ganz ehrlich: Ich bin am Ende mit meiner Kraft. Ich glaube nicht mehr, dass sich hier noch irgendetwas dreht. Die einzige Hoffnung, die wir noch haben, sind die ukrainischen Soldaten. Slava Ukrainï 🇺🇦 #Ukraine #Verrat #UnsereSoldaten #Hoffnungslos #PatchAb #Berlin #StopPutin
