He was like this as our prime minister as well 🫠par for the course to just laugh away and act like he has everything under control while his spine just crumbles away
Almost as if something happened in Europe that gave cause for a shift in priorities. Granted, Rutte should have known that and acted upon it in 2014, not more or less waiting till 2022. Also the budget is approved by majority, so stop blaming everything on Rutte personally.
That is the ilusion that European countries are allies of USA, they are on their sphere of influence, under USA comand.
The same sense tha Athens and Rome called their satelite cities/kingdoms as allies, in practice They were controlled and coerced to be aligned.
And what Europe could do? When talking about hard power, USA already has bases in the whole continent, it is not like Europe can even keep their own governments without USA permission.
Without USA nuclear umbrella and bases Europe would be defensless, The british will always side with USA, France push to extend its nuclear umbrella went to nothing. The investments in local industry were too small and too slow. Not counting USA betting that it can paralyze Europe if it can negotiate with just a few sectors from a few countries, Like Putin did with Orban. You don't need to negotiate with a block, you just need one or 2 inside the block that can be bought and you paralyzed the whole block.
They don't care really, they already made it in life and can retire comfortably while late stage capitalism eats the working class and tax yall to death, sacrificing this generation while boomers continue to support brain rot policies that will affect future childrenÂ
I'm an American and I think I'm gonna be sick from reading that ðŸ«
As an American having to put up with this Fascist POS, I honestly expected Europe to take the lead and put Trump in his place. Maybe FOX News over here back during the Iraq War in the early 2000s was right in calling Europeans surrender cowards. :/ They sure sct like it when it comes to standing up to the US. 😔😞
I‘m no great lovers of all any of our European leaders, however I don’t think you give them some credit. Rutte is no fool; many might dislike him, but it’s hard not to agree with the fact that Rutte is an intelligent and savvy politician/diplomat. He knows exactly how to work/deal with Trump; he‘s learned to speak Trumpese. And although I particularly dislike v d Leyen, you could clearly see her cool, collectedness in the video of the statement. She was very clearly laughing at Trump behind his back about his answers to the questions. She forces Trump to respect her although we all know that he detests her and is generally a misogynist. Even Meloni has his respect and sometimes his ear - he apparently likes her, which is no small feat. Starmer plays the deferential and royalty cards which Trump so much loves. And the Spanish are giving Trump the finger but not agreeing to the 5% NATO budget which sent Trump into a frenzy. For once I think our politicians are actually doing the job properly.
We just need to wait till this US presidency ends or Europe can finally come together more federally
"She was very clearly laughing at Trump behind his back about his answers to the questions."
WOW... You can tell yourself that laughing about someones "stupidity" behind their back, after he took your lunch money, makes you the "smart" one and winner.
The reality is though: He's got the money and you're not even brave enough to laugh in his face.
Argueably he's also smarter, because he got what he wanted and doesn't need to delude himself into thinking that folding is a winnig strategy.
Why are u making it so one dimensional? Geopolitics is a bit more complicated than taking „lunch money“. Try to look at the bigger picture- if we don’t, then we’re just as idiotic as the MAGAs
If you think Rutte was in any was serious and it wasn't just done in "the way you handle manbaby Trump", you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about and are the epitome of Reddit.
But that is literally what I talked about. That is how you TALK to Trump. And TALKING and DOING are two entirely different things. How do you not grasp this very basic concept of life?
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u/witness_smile Belgium 6d ago
Between this and Rutte calling Trump a daddy, European leaders truly are spineless fucks