Trump suggests NATO is dead & the Iran War is lost

In a startling interview, Donald Trump has suggested the US is done with NATO. As NATO is little more than a US protection racket, this would effectively mean that NATO is over:

In the same clip, he seemed to suggest that the US has lost its war with Iran. In other words, things aren’t going well for the American Empire.

Trump — tired of losing

In the clip above, Trump says:

I think that NATO made a terrible mistake when they wouldn’t send a small amount of military armament, when they wouldn’t… just even acknowledge what we were doing for the world… taking on Iran.

It’s true NATO countries didn’t provide their full support for the US and Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran. The illegality of the action meant NATO countries had no obligation to support the US, and yet many supported Trump anyway by allowing him to use their bases (the UK included).

In the section which suggests Trump thinks he’s lost the Iran War, the president said:

I never considered it very risky. But war is always risk. You know, a lot of strange… things happen in war that very bad. But I didn’t consider it… we have the greatest military by far anywhere. There was nobody close. I didn’t think there was a big risk, but there’s always surprises with war. They could be very bad surprises.

I mean, wars are lost that should be won. Many wars are lost. You think a country is going to wipe somebody out and they end up getting wiped out themselves. So it’s always risky.

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Getting back to NATO, Trump said:

But I think a tremendous mistake was when NATO just wasn’t there. They just weren’t there.

It’s going to make a lot of money for the United States, because we spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO – hundreds protecting them. And we would have always been there for them. But now, based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we?

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Seeming to confirm he was serious, he added:

That sounds like a breaking story. Yes, sir. Is that breaking news?

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Of course, you can’t always trust what Trump says, because the man is a habitual liar. At the same time, the NATO relationship is clearly not what it was, and Iran has given the US a bloody nose in the Gulf. As such, it wouldn’t be that surprising if this ended up being one of his periodic moments of honesty.

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