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by FartyMcFarter 113 days ago
Is threatening an ally business as usual? Tell me about all the times that recent presidents threatened a NATO ally...
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Things change. Allies just used to be threatened in private. Even today, the UK, Canada, and others are supporting the US and Israel in taking down the regime.

I’m not suggesting things haven’t or can’t change, but I am suggesting we haven’t seen any pivotal turning points, at least not yet.

We have, they were just a long time ago, and people are only just now noticing because Obama and Biden were relatively restrained and Trump I was simply incompetent.

But all the things that allow Trump to do that he's doing happened a long time ago