Des Mischelsche 🥓 ☢️ ♂ รีทวีตแล้ว

Former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis isn’t exactly a dove. He’s a Marine, a combat commander, and about as “America First” as it gets in the real world—not on a hat.
And even he is warning that Trump’s “policy” of bullying our allies is dangerously stupid.
Mattis pointed out that Denmark, which owns Greenland, lost as many troops per capita as the U.S. fighting alongside us after 9/11. They bled with us. They buried their dead with us. And now Trump slaps tariffs on those same allies while demanding they spend more on defense—something that literally requires a strong economy.
His warning is blunt: “You can’t bring allies on board if they don’t trust you.” Trust is the real currency of alliances, not photo-ops and flag-hugging.
Mattis is clear that the threat from the “aberrant, bizarre, murderous regime in Tehran” will only be handled “with allies — lots of allies.” But thanks to Trump’s chaos diplomacy, Mattis says it could take 8–12 years to rebuild the trust this White House has burned down.
That’s a decade lost because one president would rather pick fights with NATO democracies than stand up to dictators.
If you actually support our troops, you don’t sabotage the alliances that keep them alive. You “get back to thinking strategically and giving our word and living up to it”—exactly what Mattis says we’ve stopped doing.
The question isn’t whether our allies will show up for us next time. The question is: after Trump, why would they?

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