If Vice President J.D. Vance hoped to earn respect among international leaders with his speech in Germany last week, it wouldn’t work, according to one senior diplomat.
GOP in 2016. We need Trump because the rest of the world doesn’t respect us.
GOP in 2025. Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?
It didn’t “backfire”. The insults were the point. Why does whoever wrote this think he hoped to earn their respect when the trump regime has no respect for them and doesn’t give a flying fuck what they think? They want fear, not respect.
That doesn’t make sense. Nobody fears them here in Europe.
As the article said, this just led to European leaders intensifying the decoupling from dependencies onto the US, which makes its current bully administration less powerful and less able to hurt Europe.
Hoping that friends of the resistance abroad boycott every American product that crosses their dash. I mean it, everything from Google to orange juice.
We will ask American companies what they were doing in the 2020s just like we ask German companies what they were doing in the 1930s
This should have happened in 2001 when the US tried to strongarm support for it’s invasion of Iraq under false pretenses.
To be fair the year for that was 2003 not 2001.
2001 is when we invaded afghanistan in response to 9/11. 2003 is when we lied about WMD and invaded Iraq to finish the job George hw bush failed to do in the first gulf war.
Lord, that shit was infuriating. I hope Powell is roasting in hell if there is one.
I was watching it from afar. As I recall, he bailed on his presentation and got back to it after being talked to (and threatened?) and presented his schlock. Now, not saying the guy was at all blameless, but I watched him presenting and thought to myself, ‘this guy doesn’t believe this stuff at all’.
It pissed me off that the folks in the US were not seeing the whole picture.
