Kansas Crimson

KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:11 am

mjl2 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:32 am Some people need to get educated on what JVP is.

https://adl.org/resources/background/jewish-voice-peace

i’d be curious about your take on their take (the ADL’s)…at least on the opening section

mjl2 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:49 am So, yeah, if it's this, then I think their assessment is spot on.

https://www.adl.org/resources/backgroun ... oice-peace

Donald Trump wanted to pull the United States out of NATO during his first term, but was repeatedly talked out of it by senior administration officials. For a possible second term in the White House, the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner is already discussing how he could actually get it done, if his demands aren’t met by NATO. He and his policy-wonk allies are also gaming out how he could dramatically wind down American involvement to merely a “standby” position in NATO, in Trump’s own words.

When the former president has privately discussed the United States’ role in the transatlantic military alliance this year, Trump has made clear that he doesn’t want the upper ranks of a second administration to be staffed by “NATO lovers,” according to two sources who’ve heard him make such comments. The ex-president has made these kinds of jabs at the longstanding alliance during conversations related to the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.

Trump, the sources say, has continued to express an openness to pulling the U.S. out of NATO altogether. However, Trump has suggested that this could be averted if the alliance — which Trump once famously called “obsolete” — gives in to his newest demands. This would include his desires for non-American members to further and steeply increase their defense spending, and for a reevaluation of the bedrock principle that an attack on one member is tantamount to an attack on all.

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But this time around, an array of nationalist allies and pro-Trump policy wonks have been eager to offer the ex-president frameworks for how to MAGA-fy the U.S. approach to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. One possibility that has piqued Trump’s interest in recent months is what the former president has privately branded, “NATO on standby,” according to sources familiar with his private musings. One source close to Trump describes the idea as having the potential to “blast a hole straight through NATO.”

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:06 pm what does nato stand for anyways. i think it stands for:

teet suppling $#!tholes that ride our coattails and hide behind the United States while we do all the heavy lifting




or i could be wrong.

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:36 pm Two more hostages released.

So benevolent.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:16 pm This is Skokie. MJL & Gutter, stay safe.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1716560653698122169

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:16 pm This is Skokie. MJL & Gutter, stay safe.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1716560653698122169

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:36 pm Two more hostages released.

So benevolent.

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:57 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:36 pm Two more hostages released.

So benevolent.

Aren't they lovely people? The world should watch this video.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/1 ... kg-vpx.cnn