President Donald Trump has warned the U.K. and France that the “U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore,” as he vented his frustration over the close allies’ refusal to join military action against Iran.
The only country in NATO to invoke the defence retaliation clause in 60 years is the US, following SEP 11.
Mofo should go pound sand. What an ass.
Putin is all too happy seeing this happening.
as his russian and israeli handlers commanded.
Was the US there to help them before?
The word “allies” means people who work together for a common goal. When Trump made up his own goals (e.g., tariffs, wars), he got rid of those. So there’s nothing to ally around.
The world needs to cut the US out entirely for the foreseeable future.
it would be good to see him get impressed or politically neutered or both or other things
I mean that’s what he wanted all along, so…
I find it helpful to picture Zoidberg whenever Trump opens his mouth.
They never were. We were there for them though. There’s only one NATO country who used NATO article 5 “an attack against one is an attack against all”: the US after 9/11. And the rest came to their aid.
Really? Let’s check that:
The decision to invoke NATO’s collective self-defense provisions was undertaken at NATO’s own initiative, without a request by the United States, and occurred despite the hesitation of Germany, Belgium, Norway, and the Netherlands.
Two small military operations were ultimately authorized under the terms of the resolutions: Operation Eagle Assist, consisting of the deployment of several aircraft to North America; and, Operation Active Endeavour, a mostly symbolic naval deployment in the Mediterranean Sea. The United States, which was skeptical of NATO capabilities, elected not to seek further Article 5 support and the alliance did not participate in the ensuing American invasion of Afghanistan, though some individual members did make contributions outside of the NATO command structure.
You check it with a Wikipedia source. Not the most trustworthy of sources.
Here’s another source.
Article 5 has been officially used only one time in history. This occurred after the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.1 On September 12, 2001, the North Atlantic Council (NAC), which is the political leadership of NATO, agreed that if the attack was found to be directed from abroad, it would be treated as an action covered by Article 5.3
The alliance formally confirmed that Article 5 applied on October 2, 2001. This happened after the United States presented evidence showing that the attacks were carried out by the al-Qaeda terrorist group and directed from outside the country.4 In response, NATO began its first-ever military mission in direct support of the United States. This was called Operation Eagle Assist, and it involved sending NATO planes to patrol and protect the skies over the U.S.5
Another measure was Operation Active Endeavour, which was a naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea. This operation was designed to help detect and stop terrorist activities by monitoring shipping lanes. These actions showed how the alliance could use its military assets for collective defense even when the threat came from outside of Europe.
The fact remains article 5 was used after the terrorist attack on the US and NATO members responded. It has been the only time article 5 was used, and it was in response to an attack on the USA. Just like NATO article 5 states, the US it’s allies came to help. Not just a tiny operation, but years and years of deployment in Afghanistan. I myself took part in operation Active Endeavour for which I earned 2 medals.
So Trump his argument that NATO won’t help the US while the US always helped NATO, is bullshit.
Most NATO countries even helped when the US attacked Iraq without proper cause. There are also NATO countries helping the US in counter drugs operations around the Carribean, even outside jurisdictional zones of overseas territories.
The US has always been a war monger, with economy thriving around that. Since the second World War the US has been the agressor, the bully, not the protector it claims to be.
I thought America had the greatest army in the world and didn’t want out help anyway
Also, from what he’s said previously, apparently we already won the war?
When has America actually helped anyone since WW2? Korea? Kuwait? Everything else was dubious, at best; often crimes against humanity levels of imperialism, corruption, and war crimes.
Most of the cold war was so tense and dangerous because they considered everything other than capitalism — regardless of any populations democratic will and self-determination — an existential threat that warrants warfare and mass murder.
I think the cold war was less about ideology about economic systems and more about alignment with the Soviet Union.
There was plenty of eurocommunism and social democracy in Europe that wasn’t commented on by the US. Relations with the PRC were normalized in the 1970s after the 1961 sino-soviet split.
Technically we were trying to help out France with the Vietnam war
Yeah and the war is already over but they need help with the current main objective of the war opening the straits to pedophile run countries that was open before the war started if I’m tracking things right
Pete’s Warriors just need a little bit of help. Warriors ask for help don’t they?
Wow, grape army.
They never were. For decades the US has only been in NATO for it’s own enrichment and it’s own defence. The ballistic early warning radar that the US have in the UK aren’t of any use to us, flight times from Russia are so short that we’d not be able to react. But they do give the US a significant amount of time to be warned of inbound nukes and to do something about it for them.
At least we have time to react when Trump sends the nukes. :)
Draft dodging pedophile says what?
Okay, great, let us know if you need a hand dismantling U.S. bases in Europe
Or like in Afghanistan, just leave everything behind and gtfo.
Is the US not there or is Trump not there? He’s pretty old and not that healthy. Sooner or later someone more pragmatic will be in the chair.
The president still has to be american. So how much better can it really get?
