L’Europa dovrebbe prepararsi a Trump per porre fine alla protezione della NATO, avverte Merz in Germania

Prepare. It is going to happen. We can be angry about is, we can try to deny it. But that won’t help. We should build an European army with European weapons. Now.
And we knew this was coming. Trump is more blunt than Biden or Obama, but the US wants out, they want out since the ’90s.

I expect the US will announce withdrawing US troops from Eastern European states any day now. Russia is getting what it wanted out of cultivating Trump for decades. We here in Europe need to put a stop to our own Russian backed politicians & associated social media manipulation.

Yes, we all know that. Please, for the love of all gods, everyone stop talking and start actually doing something. We should’ve started preparing for that 3 years ago.

Europe doesn’t need USA protection.

1. Two countries have enough nukes to destroy Russia.
2. With Ukraine included, a total over 500 million people vs Russia’s 110 million people according to census (140 mil according to propagandists).
3. Total economy over x10 Russia’s
4. Russian army is so depleted they couldn’t retake Kursk region, are using tanks developed on Stalin’s orders when he was alive (T55/T60s), and using Ladas, motorbikes, scooters and donkeys for frontline logistics (all on published countless videos). They are barely hanging on for dear life there. Their aviation cannot come even close to the Ukrainian border or it will be shot down, the remains of Black Sea fleet are holed up in Novorossiysk under cover in fear of being completely annihilated. Russian economy is dying in a debt bubble.

Just stop having meaningless meetings and give Ukraine all the long-range missiles it needs to finish the job. I hope Germans vote wisely and hope that Merz can lead EU in the way he has been talking so far.

Europe is like a huge muscular guy afraid of “scary talking” dwarf in a back alley.

Weeks people, weeks at best untill he announces withdrawal from Europe and signals that US support even in a defensive war in europe is not happening as long as it is contained to ex-soviet sattelites.

From then on? US stops support to Ukraine. Europe picks up the slack, at the cost of their own defensive capabilities. The US removes sanctions on Russia. Russia starts re-arming and modernizing. In 2026, the Ukraine war is lost. in 2027, the baltics become the next battlefield. All before the culmination of tension around Trump’s succession in 2028, by which time Russia has occupied the Baltics and Moldavia.

That is, UNLESS our people wake up and choose.

To combat our feelings of fear and uncertantiy we have to acknowledge that the impossible is possible.

That is – a Europe where the US has withdrawn completely and where the Russians are taking a large part of the power vacuum that’s left. Also a Europe where some nation states abandons the EU and put closer ties to the oligarchs in Kreml. Also the fact that large geopolitical dissagrements might end up in war, that superpowers around the global world will pick a side to support. Where the population and modern infrastructure of wartorn country will evaporate due to demographic decline thanks to war being war.

Basically, the war in Ukraine could be the war in our countries tomorrow. What we thought was unthinkable – is now thinkable and slowly becoming real. Total war is once again a possibility.

I don’t have to brace for anything, already figured the US would not be an ally anymore during the first few days of Trump’s presidency.

Spreading fear among the population and posing as the only person capable of quelling those fears, basic populist strategy when people dislike what you stand for.

USA’s NATO protection is already gone. It’s a legal fiction. If Russia attacked Europe today, US would do nothing to help us. We need to protect ourselves now.

Im Kind of relieved that Merz, despite being wrong on many many domestic policy positions in my opinion, still, together with most other democratic leaders in Germany ahead of the election, has a sense of realism when it comes to foreign politics.

This man isn’t even chancellor yet and he has talked more about European Unity in the past few weeks than Scholz did in the past four years.

Ending NATO protection is one thing. We’re not even sure if US will put boots on the ground along Russia just to secure those rare earths. Europe should brace for both.