Russian officials welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland, with Kremlin economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev claiming on Jan. 17 that the move signals the “collapse” of the transatlantic alliance.
Trump earlier said that Washington would impose 10% tariffs on NATO allies — France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands, and Finland — until the U.S. reaches a deal to buy Greenland. He has threatened to acquire the island “one way or the other.”
“The transatlantic alliance is over,” Dmitriev wrote on X, mocking European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and urging European leaders not to “provoke” Trump.
Trump: Russia’s useful idiot.
Self-centered asset*
Wait til Putin figures out that a de facto exit of the US from NATO means the US can’t block Ukraine’s entry for Russia anymore.
Volodymyr Zelensky did an interview with David Letterman in 2022 and told a joke.
“Two Jewish guys from Odesa meet up,” Zelensky says. “One asks the other: ‘So what’s the situation? What are people saying?‘” And he goes, ‘What are people saying? They are saying it’s a war.’”
“What kind of war?”
“Russia is fighting NATO.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes, yes! Russia is fighting NATO.”
“So how’s it going?”
“Well, 70,000 Russian soldiers are dead. The missile stockpile has almost been depleted. A lot of equipment is damaged, blown up.”
“And what about NATO?”
“What about NATO? NATO hasn’t arrived yet.”
It’s going to be super embarrassing for Russia when NATO disbands entirely and Russia still loses.
Russia is the crazy guy cutting himself with a knife and screaming at everyone. Their goal is not to “win”, they just want everyone to be afraid of them.
While the US was the big stick of NATO, NATO sans the US is still a very potent force. With the existing spending it was more than enough to hold back Russia. With the additional military spending it is more than enough to hold back the US too.
The greatest weakness of NATO sans US is the ability to act quickly and decisively at scale. The petty bickering between countries over the economics of defense spending slows everything down way too much. The EU will have to evolve quickly to overcome this.
The problem, as I understand it, is that the NATO treaty has some stuff in it that is specifically and explicitly the responsibility of the US and having the US abruptly drop out makes the whole thing kind of broken. So a new NATO treaty will need to be quickly organized among those who remain interested.
I have proposed calling it NATWO, we’ll see if they take my advice I suppose.
North Atlantic Treaty W/O (the USA)?
… Why are the two guys described as Jewish?
Because it’s a Jewish anecdote.
Because Zelenskyy is an religious-supremacist Zionist Jew…
Take the pills
Reminder that Trump’s various ties to Russia are thoroughly documented and verified, but the FBI/DoJ just plain decided not to do anything. “Russia owns Trump” is not a mad conspiracy theory.
Seriously, imagine what putin have a pedonald to make him be his little bitch like that.
The moment Greenland is stolen Trump will let the Russians open a base on the island, they probably still have a tape of him getting pissed on by an underage Russian prostitute.
Based on everything else we know about Trump do your really think that’s all they’ve got on him?
He had to have fucked a child to death right?
No way anything less on those tapes would drive anyone this far.
It’s not a given that’s a good thing for Russia. No NATO means EU is going for a much stronger and probably united army. The end result is much more soldiers and equipment right on their border.
Trump is also doing his best to tear down rules. Rules is what stops EU from just talking Kaliningrad. Or harassing Russia’s allies.
Weird things can happen when alliances start shifting.
Yes but US is their relatively new enemy where Europe is their old nemesis, so them not being together is at least psychologically a big win for them.
most of it not all krasnovs foreign policy came from PUTIN, also the aggressive tariff tactics.
Greenland is the ad hoc reasoning to pull out of nato.
He does not have the support to pull out directly, so an imperial expansion is supposed to bring enough institutionalists along.
If I had to guess, his recent floating of 50 pc increase in military budget to 1.5 trillion was to keep arms contracters on board as nato blowing up would lose them a lot of business.
Does Trump have a Russian name? Would be interesting.
I think it’s Педофиле
Of all his remarkable qualities, is that the most relevant?
Which one would you have picked?
Yes it’s, Orange Paedo.
