Nato leaders have informally agreed not to mention the football World Cup to Donald Trump for fear of irritating the US president at a crucial time for the military alliance.
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In the first open acknowledgment of the strategy, the Belgian prime minister, Bart De Wever, told reporters in Ankara he would not be discussing his country’s 4-1 win over the US earlier this week.
Look, can everyone please do their best not to annoy the bumbling pedophile? Thank you - your cooperation is appreciated.
I heard he rearranged the conference with his men to be the elephant in the room, he was ready to go nuke lol
Spineless
Just bully the fuck out of him until he has another stroke
Cowards. They should have a giant poster of Stormy with the Belgian team on the wall.
NATO Leader A: Don’t mention any of his failures as it would trigger him
NATO Leader B: So we have sit in complete silence then?
Because he’s a special baby snowflake.
Belgian waffles for every G7 breakfast.
Stop placating the old bitch
Some recent reports claimed EU needs about 10 years to become militarily independent from USA. Some other reports claim that Russia is planning on testing NATO in the near future. Most countries realize now they can’t rely on USA anymore but not talking about football is small price to pay for keeping the alliance together a little big longer.
There’s no avoiding rocking the boat with a narcissist. There’s no placating them. The only ways to deal with them is to bully them or ignore them.
Here’s the thing, barring a nuclear weapon I think Poland or Finland all by themselves could take Russia and there’s no one else really threatening Europe at the moment.
Trump also doesn’t respect placation, it just invites him to go harder. What he does respect is popularity and violence. He’s cool with Mamdani because the mayor is popular, he’s deferential to Putin because Putin projects violence.
However, Russia has nuclear weapons.
True, but clearly it feels like using them to conquer their neighbors would have negative results
Metro 2035 moment
Pedro Sánchez, Spanish PM, said he had an informal conversation with Trump about soccer and the World Cup.
https://xcancel.com/clashreport/status/2074869832990740508
Trump knows nothing about soccer, so it should have looked like an elevator talk.
Pedro Sanchez claimed Wold Cup was the only thing he discussed with Trump. Is that’s what pissed Trump so much? :D
Bastards didn’t warn him?
The emperor is naked.
Ah, yes, appeasement. Why was that never tried before?
Ironically, it actually did its job pre WWII.
Chamberlain realised he had fucked up. Britain didn’t have the forces to actually resist the Nazis. Appeasement was to buy them time to rearm. When the war actually started, Chamberlain fell on his proverbial sword, to give Churchill a clean slate and a functional military to work with.
Well you don’t hear about all the times it prevented a world war
Indeed, just the specific time when it directly enabled one
Bunch of fucking cowards.
Why are all the world’s leaders kissing his ass? Why doesn’t anyone have the balls to tell him no, he’s an idiot?
They are treating him like you would treat a dementia patient.
Nuclear bombs.
Endless military bases sprinkled around Europe.
The capability for dealing economic damage.
A cabinet of sycophants.
A cult-like following.
He is the commander-in-chief of the world’s most advanced military and second largest nuclear stockpile on Earth. Despite the United States’ economic woes, he also wields great influence over a massive trade partner with the EU.
Until the Europeans can successfully deleverage most of their integration with the United States military and economy, the pragmatic thing to do is only pick fights where it’s absolutely necessary.
Personally, for what it’s worth, I wouldn’t want to cede one millimeter of proberbial ground to what is clearly the worst president of all time. However, I understand the tactical decision being made.
Why antagonize him while it’s much easier to appeal to him and make him sign stupid deals in your favor he wil call victories?
What good are deals that he’s going to tear up and ignore next week?
If you piss him off, you get an instant tariff or “stop all relations with …” (see Spain). Agreements may not hold well, but at least you have a default way of working when he’s not having a tantrum.
They all have the same billionaire handlers.
It’s Europe. Just switch to another language. Hell, just call it football and he won’t know.
