#alliances

Darren Tan - Padme Amidala (2018)

Contagion

Ashnod's Cylix

Few remember that Ashnod's defilement of Terisiare's resources outstripped even that of her peers.

Noble Steeds (Alliances) - Rebecca Guay

Gandalv :: @Microinteracti1

Trump: Today Is the Day You Pick a Side! Whose side are you on? Russia or NATO? Walk up to a camera. Look into the lens. Say it out loud. NATO or Russia.

That is the entire question, and there is no space between those two answers where you get to hide. Thirty-one sovereign nations that have housed your troops, shared your intelligence, bought your weapons and bled alongside your soldiers for decades are now sitting with genuine, serious doubt about where your loyalty actually sits. You did that. You earned that doubt entirely on your own.

So here is what we need: say that Russia is an adversary of the West. On camera. Without winking. Without a “but.” Just say it like a man who means it. Because if the answer is not clear, unambiguous and convincing, NATO should do the only rational thing: remove the United States from the alliance.

As self-preservation. Keeping a potentially compromised actor inside the most sensitive military alliance on earth is a security catastrophe waiting to happen. This is a red line. And we are standing on it right now.

Macron: get in front of that camera. Look straight into it. Trump. Which side? Russia or NATO. Merz: same camera, same question. Trump. Which side? Russia or NATO. Meloni, Starmer, Tusk, Sanchez, Frederiksen, Støre, Kristersson, Stubb, Mitsotakis, Montenegro, Fiala, Golob, Plenovic, Rama, Nauseda, Rinkevics, Karis, Frieden, Spajic, Mickoski. All of you. One by one. Camera on. Eyes forward. Trump. Which side? Russia or NATO. We are not in a grey zone. NATO no longer knows whether the man in the Oval Office is a partner or a liability. Intelligence services across the continent are already restricting what they share with Washington. The question hanging over every classified briefing, every military operation, every strategic plan is this: does this end up on Putin’s desk by morning? If Trump’s answer is Russia, and his behaviour suggests it is, then NATO’s most sensitive secrets are not secrets at all. They are gifts. Every troop position, every contingency plan, every back-channel communication becomes material that could be passed to Moscow by a man who is compromised sits at the top of the Western alliance. That is the logical conclusion of what we are watching in real time. NATO to Trump: Answer the F. question! Stay connected, Follow Gandalv

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