While we all consider the sheer magnificence of Trump and Vance, and how spectacularly they ride the wave of international love due to their stupendous performance on geopolitical matters - let's look at the language used by various young news commentators on YouTube as they try to explain the magnanimousness of Vance's verbiage!
TLDR - Why do Trump and Vance hate Europe so much?
They feel like they’re being ripped off - but almost every option they ‘blame’ as just another cost Europe is ‘inflicting’ on them - is actually serving America’s interests anyway.
That's right boys and girls.
Why do the President and Vice President of the United States of America HATE Europe so much!
Signal-Gate was
illuminating.
THAT JD Vance was such a genius he went against protocol and joined a badly run Signal group was one thing.
WHAT he said was an entirely other thing!
But Vance sees the military operation as a favor to Europe — not a general need Washington has long fulfilled. When he finally agrees to support the strikes, he adds: “I just hate bailing out Europe again.” And he’s not alone. “VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC,” Hegseth writes, while Waltz notes it should be added to the list of “horribles on why the Europeans need to invest in their defense.”
Maybe I missed it, but I’m not aware of any European nation asking the U.S. to strike the Houthis at this time. That was a decision Trump and his team made on their own — and a key reason, Hegesth noted, was to restore deterrence vis-à-vis Iran.
That said, it’s clear Trump shares his advisers’ views. Indeed, at one point, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — whom Waltz added to the chat only after Vance disagreed with the president’s decision — chimes in. The president has given a “green light” for the strikes, but, he adds, “we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return.” And that includes economic concessions: “If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost, there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.”
Freedom of navigation may be a national interest, but that’s only up to a point. Apparently, the U.S. military is for hire, even if there has been no request for its services. And if you want us — you have to pay.
Apparently, the U.S. military is for hire, even if there has been no request for its services. And if you want us — you have to pay.
www.politico.eu
Vance venting his vexatious vanities on Signal also inspires confidence around the security of other nation's intelligence. In other words - leaders around the world are now being grilled - do you trust Vance? Or being told behind closed doors - don't trust Vance with that!
Try to imagine this happening under previous administrations.
London — In the British Parliament, the
Signal group chat controversy prompted a hard question on Wednesday for the U.K. leader from opposition lawmaker Ed Davey:
Can Britain still trust America with its secrets?
"Will the prime minister make it clear that he will order an urgent review into the security of the intelligence that we share with the United States?" Davey asked during a session in the House of Commons.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushed back.
"We work with the United States on a daily basis," Starmer said. "Unpicking our relations with the U.S. for defense and security is neither responsible nor serious."
But not everyone agrees, including Davey's fellow Liberal Democrats party Member of Parliament Helen Maguire.
"It's difficult to say that we can continue to rely on the U.S. when they're really playing Russian roulette with Western security," she told CBS News.
Across Europe, though, political leaders were anxious not to provoke President Trump, and they have largely avoided that kind of criticism.
(Eclipse comment: See that? It's subtle. They know Trump's so sensitive he might have a melt-down and vow never to protect their country because his ego CANNOT take criticism! Presidential neuroses like this should NOT be a regular part of geopolitical considerations today - but now they are!)
Newspaper and news website headlines across the continent, however, have not.
The French daily L'Express led with: "Top-secret plans leaked — what we know about the Trump administration's big blunder."
In Italy, Il Fatto Quotidiano's top story was headlined: "Parasitic, mean and an object of hate — Vance and Hegseth reveal what Trump's U.S. thinks of its NATO allies."
Online, there was widespread outrage at Europeans being described in the
Signal text thread by Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth as freeloaders. In
the thread, Hegseth responded in agreement to a message from Vice President JD Vance by writing, "VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC."
The outrage online is shared by Maguire. She is military veteran — one of the thousands of British troops who helped America topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
"It's horrendous," she said. "I mean, the word 'freeloading!' I've served in Iraq. Iraq was a U.S. war. I was there with my military counterparts. Not only that, but the U.S. has many bases in British overseas territories, so we're absolutely not freeloaders. We've been supporting the U.S. for many years, and it's incredibly disappointing to hear off-the-cuff comments like that from J.D. Vance."
In a session of British Parliament Wednesday, the controversy over the leaked Signal group chat involving high-ranking members of the Trump administration was debated.
www.cbsnews.com
Great job JD! Woo! Way to go!
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