President Donald Trump has warned the U.K. and France that the “U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore,” as he vented his frustration over the close allies’ refusal to join military action against Iran.

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        24 hours ago

        You’re just trying to justify his talking points lol.

        Idk who was president of the US in 2001 in your version of history, but in mine it was Bush and he asked for more allied troops in 2008, why would he do that if they’d been so useless the prior 7 years? Should’ve just sent only American troops then.

        There were times during his first term when his administration was pissed at other NATO members, yes, but the actual reason had nothing to do with the Europeans’ fighting capabilities. It was more about disagreements over whether the US should get to dictate things unilaterally, as well as some countries outright declaring they wouldn’t join the Iraq invasion.

        Also, both General Franks and SECDEF Rumsfeld are largely credited with the strategic failures in the early part of the Afghanistan war. It’s literally why both were driven into retirement even though Rumsfeld wanted to keep Franks around and Bush wanted to keep Rumsfeld around. Much of the Anti-European sentiment in the early 00s US military brass came from those two.

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          8 hours ago

          You’re just trying to justify his talking points

          Trump’s talking points is that neither USians nor NATOans should be entitled to spinning bullshit on the web? Wow, that’s an incredible discovery. The Nobel prize should probably be awarded to you for such an earth-shaking revelation.

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            7 hours ago

            Ah, I see you’re out of arguments because your bullshit is so transparent. Bye bye