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  1. How Trump betraying the Budapest Memorandum might lead to WW3

    At the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine had about a third of their nukes. In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, the UK, America, and Russia PLEDGED to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in exchange for Ukraine transferring its nuclear weapons to Russia...

  2. Would Trump defend Australia if we were attacked? We HAD a big purchase deal worked out... but....

    Remember WW2? Remember Hitler marching on France and France begging the USA for a huge air force to fly across and defend them? Didn't happen. Not for years. They were occupied - and it was horrendous. They never forgot. That's why France has its own nukes. They never forgot - and always...
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    • allies aukus australia betrayal defence nato reliability trump trust
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    • Forum: American Politics

  3. EU buys $60 bn of American weapons each year! America gets 105 TIMES more out of NATO than it costs!

    Hi all, I edited this OP to correct my original error of saying the EU purchased $190 billion in American weapons each year. This is wrong and I apologise. It is only $60 bn as far as I can tell - and that ramped up in the last year or so. But that is STILL more than 105 times more than America...
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    • alliances american military american military industrial complex betrayal china nato russia trump
    • Replies: 164
    • Forum: American Politics

  4. President Trump - hopes and risks

    It looks like Trump has pulled off a remarkable comeback despite being a convicted felon. God preserved his life when others wanted to assassinate him and gave the American people a choice about their future and they have chosen his way forward. Their reasons appear to be inflation and...

  5. Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little

    Seeking a second presidency as the Republicans’ presumptive 2024 White House nominee, Donald Trump has said he would “encourage” Russia to attack any of the US’s Nato allies whom he considers to have not met their financial obligations. Trump told European leaders that US ‘will never come to...

  6. Let's talk about Joe Biden getting Viktor Shokin fired

    Since this falsehood/historical revisionism has been cropping up numerous times and Rep. Taylor Greene repeated it in the House chambers last week, let's try putting this baby to bed at least in this section of CF. It's been almost 3 years. It's time to stop with the nonsense. 1. The most...

  7. Polish army put on alert after two killed in explosion near Ukraine border

    Two people died Tuesday afternoon after a projectile struck an area where grain was drying in Przewodów, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine, domestic media reported. The Polish government raised its army's level of readiness after Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called an emergency...

  8. Joe Biden - Admitting Baltic states to NATO will cause 'vigorous and hostile reaction' from Russia

    Here's Joe Biden in 1997, predicting that admitting Baltic states to NATO would cause 'the greatest consternation', and would cause a 'vigorous and hostile reaction' from Russia. Twenty five years later, we can see that Joe Biden eventually provoked great consternation and got the vigorous and...

  9. Reasons to not vote Left or to vote Left

    Reasons not to vote Left This is always the big one in my experience: 'The Soviet Union collapsed in 1989 proving that communism doesn't work.' It wasn't communist. The aim of the dominant party in the USSR was to transform it into a communist Soviet state, but this aim was never achieved...

  10. America First and a 2 tier NATO?

    The resignation of general Matthis has important implications for Americas global posture and for the NATO alliance: "Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned on Thursday while delivering a stunning rebuke to President Donald Trump, expressing differences on issues including the president's...

  11. Trump on Russian gas imports to Germany

    Trump thinks that Germany is "totally controlled by Russia" because of its high level of natural gas imports from Russia. 1) Is this true? 2) Why is he saying it ahead of a meeting with Putin and with NATO heads? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44780489
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