17 Apr 2026 9:23 am
Are you the same guy that was whining about how the world was going to turn against the US because of the Trump tariffs just a couple of months ago?Cannonpointer » 16 Apr 2026, 8:44 pm » wrote: ↑ Coupla things.
1. We had to take interceptors away from South Kores - pissing off our allies there and worrying our allies in Japan - because those useless russian, chinese, and iranain drones overwhelmed the batteries the US THOUGHT would do the job.
2. We had to take interceptors away from Western Europe because those useless russian, chinese, and iranain drones overwhelmed the batteries the US THOUGHT would do the job.
3. NOT FEELING SAFE, our allies are getting together and creating new strategies and alliances. NATO is on the way out - and this will cut our MIC's production and profits in half. It will make it much more difficult for us to act in concert with alliesin the event of a major war.
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The US market is a prize for sure. Every nation on earth covets access to it, for good reason. We can (and more often than you think, do) make nations jump through hoops. You likely believe we should make them jump through MORE hoops - and if you do, we can agree on that. But as desirable as that access is, if we demand the leaders of other nations murder their wives and children on video in order to get it, THEY WILL FIND SOME OTHER WAY TO PROCEED, WITHOUT ACCESS TO THE AMERICAN MARKET. So there IS a limit, and the US is edging mighty, mighty close to hitting that limit.
Just as there is a limit to what we can require of our military allies. A military alliance with the US has always been seen as the best way to be safe in a dangerous world. Like access to our market, it has very real and very substantial value. But like access to our market, being our ally has great but FINITE value. And every vassal state of ours - sorry, ALLY of ours - in the middle east can attest that an alliance with the US can come with significant costs. It has made them LESS safe - and the best interceptors go to israel while the arab states get pounded and their economies get shut down.
And why in the world would you suddenly object when our allies realize they had better focus on defending themselves rather than counting on NATO and the US to protect them? This is PRECISELY the outcome that Trump wanted, and NATO's refusal to help us keep the Strait of Hormuz open was the only catalyst needed for Trump to read them the riot act and warn them about what will happen the next time US military might is needed in the world.
You were nothing but a weeping ****** then and you're still one now as you try to pretend that you were always a MAGA supporter while you did nothing but criticize and fling your **** against every one of Trump's actions that have now ALL proven to be overwhelmingly successful.
So eat **** now, you two-faced blowhard!