Donald wants everyone to pay for their own defence yet will also charge the taxpayer extra for this own protection (while not paying taxes himself).
An inch makes all the difference.
I wonder if he share the same view on “israel” paying for own “defence”
That’s a very interesting thing to point out. I’d like to hear his followers respond to it.
I guess “changed man” has nothing to do with mental acuity.
My take is the bullet actually passed through his head, but there’s nothing there so he was fine
Alternate headline: Crusty old man grossly underestimates the sheer importance of advanced semiconductors
He’s sabotaging the West on purpose.
Anything to help his daddy putin.
Trump is literally a foreign agent, working on behalf of China and Russia.
Don’t forget the Saudis! They’d love to entice Trump with a tacky golf resort in the middle of the desert in exchange for some more environmental deregulation and looking the other way on human rights violations
I feel like that’s the case for all the far-right populists around the world. Viktor Orban in Hungary, Erdogan in Turkey, the AfD party in Germany, etc. AfD members of the European parliament literally got caught taking money from the Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies, and in exchange doing some stuff in the parliament.
Erdoğan doesn’t fit the list in my opinion.
He’s obviously a right wing stooge that uses religious extremism to his advantage, and I hope his reign ends soon, but he’s only been blocking stuff temporarily to advance his position (to get EU membership for example, or to advance at the borders), but he has been an important ally to Ukraine and NATO during the war.
I haven’t seen him repeat Russian propaganda at all.
Correct me if my feeling is wrong though. I didn’t look deeper into it.
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Does he think Taiwan sends us a bill or something?
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That’s exactly what he thinks, isn’t it?
He thinks the US sends them a bill and they don’t pay.
He’s very transactional.
A bit ironic as he never pays for things either.
It’s always projection.
This really shows how clueless this “businessman” is about business. Imagine China invades in Taiwan. About any business in the electronic sector will go down hard. Really hard. All over the world.
I posted a similar comment on some of the news around the US Republican’s withholding aid to Ukraine for 6 months but this is insane.
Sure in the case of Taiwan specifically, the semiconductors is an obvious and immediate issue. But it’s also worth noting that the US has spent countless trillions of dollars and worked through consecutive administrations for decades to establish itself as a reliable, irreplaceable and necessary defence partner.
This isn’t just about Taiwan or Ukraine, but the geopolitical status of the US as a whole. It seems insane to me to jeopardize that. I’m no political scientist or anything so if this is actually in some way good for the US I’d be very interested to hear that perspective.
Think about it. Who loses if the US becomes anything other than a reliable, irreplaceable and necessary defense partner? Who gains?
Putin is waging war against the rest of the world on multiple fronts and our definitions and rules of engagement when it comes to hybrid warfare aren’t up to date.
Rolling back US empire is an unalloyed good.
I think there’s definitely merit to that. There are multiple avenues to achieving that end though and the US suddenly leaving its allies unprotected is probably the worst possible one imo. I am biased though living in Taiwan and having my home country also dependent on our alliance with the US for defence.
Taiwan isn’t an ally it’s a vassal. And you shouldn’t be so excited to be a meat shield for their aggression on the opposite side of the world. Even if you have sympathies for your fascist, genocidal government.
Oh yes, of course it’s American aggression that’s the problem here, not Chinese aggression.
Seen a map before?
Check out the continent of Africa for a current view of the counterpoint to your argument.
Have you seen nmap before?
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Uhhh, ok now you’ve lost me. I’d kinda just like to not have myelf or my family bombed or shot at and be able to have self determination. Being under the umbrella of US protection is the best way to have both of those things right now.
He should pay for his own defense
Maybe Taiwan should just sell their chips at way higher price to America ♻️
Taiwan will just say American corporations should pay more for those precious chips to fund it’s defense
Why is it only American corps that have to find it’s defense?
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my understanding is that Taiwan buys weapons from the us, so he is demanding something that is already a common practice
All of Donald Trump’s previous defense lawyers blink in surprise
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Does Donny know where the processor of the phone that he posts all his verbal vomit comes from?
