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  • “I fully share your loathing of European freeloading,” Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, later replied. “It’s PATHETIC.”
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Being called pathetic by a bunch of thinskinned crybabies isn't an insult...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

That opinion carries the same weight as a gas station crackhead calling me a dick for not lending him a hundred.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

They probably also believe in US exceptionalism 😆🎊

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's mutual let's be real

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Many european 'leaders' seem pretty fond of them, actually. Orban, Meloni, Merz ... even Finland's Stubb recently visited Trump to play a nice round of golf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Putin is extremely fond of him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Nevermind, we call you that too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I thought they were just selling a story. But he actually believes it. So he's actually a fucking moron.

Amazing

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

in fairness trump and vance have also done this to their face, so at least the messaging is consistent

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Coming from Trump and his ilk, that's a compliment. Fuck you, too, orange buddy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was it even an issue that needed to be resolved by force? Did we European asked them to do that for us? Should they say thank you for being so over reaching?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The EU has had ships in the Red Sea for this reason for a year already, they're just keeping to shooting down missiles and drones instead of flinging missiles into Yemen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So we pretty much had the situation under control?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Depends on what you count as "under control" I guess? No ships have been captured or sunk since last June, so in that regard yes. On the other hand, civilian ships were still getting hit by things a couple of times a month.

Either way, though, the EU has the capacity to shoot into Yemen and isn't doing so. I would argue that regardless of ethics, it's not actually a helpful thing to do. The Saudis bombed Yemen for about a decade, and if that had achieved anything then we wouldn't be in the current situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, because other than the US we don't make a sport out of bombing Yemen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

A couple of toddlers won the not-so-popular vote and now their egostistical egos are showing. nothing but baby talk and they need to be put in their place by their european grandmas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Just "pathetic"??

I'm sure I've been called worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Article...5 days old.... Article 5. Wait, I know this one:

Which is the only country that has ever invoked NATO's article 5?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Bahrain? 🤷