Just send Trump a bill for decades of non payment of use of the grounds on which the bases are located.
To use Trump’s own business-tactics against him: it was prime real estate ground worth billions that the bases blocked the development of … no exclusive reason those troops only had to be on land, could have kept a fleet on standby in the ocean or something.
It’s a get lost payment, not a welcome to the USA bonus …
10k to get lost, it’s unspoken but the money is to leave the country because that is then owned by Trump.
This is a typical Trump deal, Trump gets what he wants and the other side gets ripped off. There never will be equal footing between trading partners in a Trump deal.
Isn’t Ozempic already mad expensive in the US compared to Denmark where it comes from?
Perhaps he thinks Ozempic actually is harvested in Greenland? :-D
It’s so weird they always look outside to fix the American problems.
Instead of heavily taxing the American billionaires and giant corporations plus halving the defense budget, if only for a year or two, they expect to claim money from outside of the US to fix it all.
How much of it exists at this moment to cover the lost imported goods?
How much of the “catch-up” industry can be running efficiently enough within 2 years?
(How much of that same manufacturing will not be crippled by other measures that Trump shakes out of his pants?)
Ah, perhaps this will be the war he needs to stay on his throne indefinitely…
Yeah about that … putin considers Alaska to still be Russian territory and wants it back … so he whispered to agent Krasnov to take Greenland to balance it out so they both have more arctic mining possibilities again… “it is a fair deal”.
This is also why Trump dreams he wants Canada as an extra state, to buffer against a Russian Alaska…
“Russia will leave Ukraine alone if it gives up all Nuclear arms.”
“Russia only wants to lease the harbor of Crimea 'till about 2042.”
“Russia has no soldiers in Ukraine Donbas or Crimea regions, these Russian Veterans are on holiday, can’t you see that they wear unmarked uniforms?.”
“Russia did not shoot down Malaysian Air MH17, it is unknown why that specific mobile missile launcher was seen driving from Russia into Ukraine and back again after firing.”
“Russia started only a police action inside Ukraine to take out certain elements, should take about 3 days.”
“Russia is Russia, Ukraine never existed and has no right to now.”
“Russia is not at war in Ukraine, it is Russia who was attacked.”
“Russia does not want parts of Europe, the people of East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia live in happy unison under the Warsaw pact and mother Russia’s bosom.”
“Trump and Musk will leave social security alone, privatising it is a ridiculous notion.”
“Trump is a president of law and order and respects the judicial branch.”
Oh wait, how did comrade Krasnov get mixed in with this…
In other words Komrade Krasnov is investing and bolstering the Russian economy, without any return offer, all on firm request of great leader putin.
Yeah uh about that … let’s brainstorm …what if Zelensky is taken hostage on his next visit to the White House?
Or what if his plane flying him back suddenly dissappears?
Falling out a window only happens because of weird Russian glass, yes?
“The great peacemaker” needs big wars so that he can eventually “make” a peace…
You’re right, but what you’re not quite mentioning is that most of these defeats came from Russia instigating the conflict (even well before the communist revolution). Ie. it performed small invasions in various Baltic states, sweden and finland in the Napoleonic eras and was a general nuisance at the borders.
Russias long time battle strategy of using its populace as cannon fodder, and seeing individuals as worthless workers for the state, is also the reason why it never amounts to actually realizing the huge threat outsiders think it is.
In potential they can amass every citizen in the working force for their military complex.
But if those same citizens are bereft of anything that inspires them the fighting spirit dwindles and force must be used to push them to fight which isn’t a great thing for morale.
It showed in the Russian defeat against Napoleon, Napoleon took his inspired armies deep inside Russia, and all the Russians had as a strategy was just torch every town, city and granary in Napoleon’s path, untill he got stuck in the freezing winter without supplies nor local inhabitants to aid his conquest. The same thing it did with its own people during the communist revolution, it torched villages and killed livestock of any single Russians against the regime change. World War 2 also saw this tactic being used, and in Ukraine we’re seeing it again.
So the thing is, be it under the Tsar, the communist regime, or under Putins hybrid oligarchic communism, the cannon fodder doctrine never left the Russian way of thinking.
And this, in essence, also is why Russia is considered the antithesis and “the enemy” to the West’s view of individualism.
Seeing how the European members are one financial bloc it would be appropriate to count them as one and average their spending, then it would probably go past the 2% easily (I don’t have nor know how to use the relevant data, so correct me if I am wrong).
But this is not useful for Trump’s reasoning to want to leave NATO so he will not do that and count everyone separately, be it EU or other members.
He needs the excuse, and seeing how the EU is thwarting his and Putins plans for Ukraine, I can see Trump will come with an ultimatum this or next year to actually leave/dismantle NATO.
I am convinced that the only thing keeping Trump from leaving NATO right now is the income the Military Industry is receiving from this.
I fully agree.
Granted, many members were below the agreed upon spending of 2%
And he somewhat correctly complained about that…
Though some were above 2% already and Trump had nothing but silence for it…
But now that members drastically increased spending (not just because of him but also due to the Putin factor) Trump suddenly demands 5% across the board … already Poland is over that (because of Putin, not Trump) and Germany approaching it …
Trump knows/is told most members can not raise to 5% …and will use their non compliance to his orders as an excuse to torpedo NATO.
But I am sure when a few others do pass 5% he’ll go to 8% just to spite things and make sure Putin is appeased with his instilled chaos.
Next time it will be “Due Process is for those who deserve it”.