Are Europeans 'pathetic European free loaders'?

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WhatsApp chat released today from the US calling Europeans 'pathetic European free-loaders'.

One of our closest allies! What about support from European countries after September 11th?

AIBU to expect more professional language?

Probably less effective these days. Almost overnight they've flipped from the Russians being Public Enemy No.1 to being dear friends. The MAGAs just follow the Dear Leader's new line.

Time to bring this guy back from the Russian front and send him across the pond for talks with Trump as our freeloading European representative.

When they claim that "metric didn't put a man on the moon" it's quite funny to point out that NASA used metric.

Here he is...

It's not about the media, it's about what senior members of the US government say.

They're not oyr closest allies anymore. And they don't understand that America helping other countries isn't 'freeloading', it is how America got its standing in the world - the standing they are now losing by becoming an entirely selfish bully like their president.

Goodness that's awful that they made a profit out of people dying

On an aside note the American Government reneged on virtually every treaty made with the First Nations, apart from the promise to take their lands.

Well, someone had to.

Really? I don't believe Sadiq Khan had the ability to refuse or deny the Trump Baby, he's not God like USA politicians are, he's obliged to act within the law. I'm hoping Baby Bigly will be dusted off for next visit.

"for a while" presumably meaning "since 2003" when they dragged us into their idiotic invasion of Iraq (after we'd already been helping them root out Bin Laden when they invoked Article 5).

I’m European and the defence spending has been pitiful. Quite how that message was delivered to the world is debatable, but Germany are woefully underfunded and can’t mount a defence against a nuclear super power with broomsticks (which is all their soldiers had memorably)

It's interesting that many people I grew up with who were adults in the 50s had a deep distrust of the US that we youngsters thought was a bit fuddy-duddy. It was only later I realised that the UK being shafted ovr Suez left a deep scar.

Of course those generations are now gone.

If there is a crowdfunder, put me down.

Care to expand on this drivel and explain what you are on about?

You're referring to Bigly's failed business ventures and failure to repay investors presumably?

Anyone else constantly wondering what Melania thinks of all this? Or maybe she isn't capable of thinking at all. Can you imagine what her family or old school mates think?

Trumps Mum is from Europe as is his wife. Bizarre to be anti European in those circumstances

I have a lot of love for the US and it has some great people and culture, but these are troubling times with their new government and the way it is behaving towards their closest allies.

Is it surprising that Germany's defence spending has been low, when the international policy for many decades was that the Germans weren't to be trusted with an army?

Most people outside of the US ( and many in the US) think Trump and his cronies are an embarrassment to the country, so I’d take things like this with a pinch of salt.

A pinch of salt? O that's alright then, silly me for mistaking it for a complete betrayal by an allied nation.

A pinch of salt won't save USA from what Bigly's Beasts have planned for it. And for Europe if we don't put him back where he belongs.

Yeah those were the things I was thinking of.

French people downing tools as soon as anyone suggests they work past 62 and more than 37 hours a week and so on.

Blair was up for that. There’s a good podcast covering why he was ready to jump for US.

People will differ, I’d say it’s ramped up more since and US voters are likely fed up and said ok you pay.

Latest from the WH on SignalGate

"This is a coordinated effort to distract from the successful actions taken by President Trump and his administration."

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Is it surprising that Germany's defence spending has been low, when the international policy for many decades was that the Germans weren't to be trusted with an army?

See this is what I can't understand. When the FRG/BRD was established in 1949 it was after several years of careful nurturing under the direct supervision of the Allied powers, including the USA. The constitution was designed with the exact aim of keeping German military might in check, as it had three times got out of hand. Now suddenly the USA is acting as though it's not fair.