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   • rhys the great
   @rhys @vga @gravitas_deficiency
   
   i legitimately prefer that he withdraws from the alliance, so that we can least have a general commander from canada or europe
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     rhys the great (rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 18:35:39 JST rhys the great

     @vga @gravitas_deficiency Adhering to the much-flaunted spending commitments wasn't ridiculous, but Trump's framing of it was.

     Back when he raised it, he was threatening to withdraw the US from the alliance if other nations didn't start adhering to it, and as recently as this year he's said he'll encourage Putin to do "whatever the hell he wants" to states who don't meet the spending commitment, directly undermining the collective defence principle of NATO.