“I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” he said, in comments published Wednesday.
How’s that three day ‘special operation’ going? You should ask him the next time you call him. In his published comments on Wednesday, Trump again rebuked the U.K., suggesting that the country’s Royal Navy was inadequate.
" You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work," he said.



It’s clear that it’s in the interest of the United States to do preemptive damage control in light of tensions between RUS and EU that could escalate into a war. The Americans simply don’t want to be dragged into anything, least of which conflicts they aggravated. Same logic as privatising profits and socialising losses.