Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 17 hours agoWhat would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?message-squaremessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down15
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareWhat would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 17 hours agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 hours agoAs a unitedstatesian: I genuinely do not believe the trust we’ve squandered with parts of the world that (previously) didn’t mind us / considered us allies is going to be recovered in my lifetime. Our idiocy has put far too many things in motion that are going to have irrevocable consequences for the very long term. For instance: just today, the US is apparently considering suspending Spain for disrupting operation Epstein Fury, despite the fact that there is absolutely no mechanism within the NATO charter to unilaterally do that to Spain.
minus-squareLehmuusa@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·43 minutes agoSo, basically one NATO member is saying that it will not honour its commitments if Spain ever gets attacked? And maybe this means that all official documents will have to be delivered to the Spanish by some other NATO member state? A suspension that suspenses nothing. Hooray.
As a unitedstatesian: I genuinely do not believe the trust we’ve squandered with parts of the world that (previously) didn’t mind us / considered us allies is going to be recovered in my lifetime. Our idiocy has put far too many things in motion that are going to have irrevocable consequences for the very long term. For instance: just today, the US is apparently considering suspending Spain for disrupting operation Epstein Fury, despite the fact that there is absolutely no mechanism within the NATO charter to unilaterally do that to Spain.
So, basically one NATO member is saying that it will not honour its commitments if Spain ever gets attacked?
And maybe this means that all official documents will have to be delivered to the Spanish by some other NATO member state?
A suspension that suspenses nothing. Hooray.