The EU foreign policy chief has declared that “the free world needs a new leader”, as European leaders threw their support behind Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after the stunning White House confrontation between him and Donald Trump.
Leaders from across Europe expressed their solidarity with the Ukrainian leader after the fractious exchange with JD Vance, the US vice-president, and Trump, who claimed he was not “ready for peace” and accused him of “gambling with world war three”.
Although in general, the European leaders did not name the US president, their comments late on Friday laid bare the gaping rift between the US and its traditional allies in Europe over the war in Ukraine.
In a social media post, Kaja Kallas, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, wrote: “Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor.
“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.”
Sure, that might work. Oh and that “largest and most advanced military” is made up of those same people who you think are 70% of the population. Maybe see what happens when people actually take some action, instead of just giving up and bitching about it.
The military skews right. Strongly. That’s a big part of the problem.
The military is also under direct attack.
The Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs is being replaced by a Lieutenant General that, according to Trump, got the job through being a sycophant who wore a MAGA hat with his uniform.
There’s a lot of troops under leaders that will find that abhorrent.
What? Not that I have seen. And even if they did, you think people don’t have an issue with this as long as they are “on the right”? You can not out of one side of your mouth say “70% of americans don’t want this” and from the other “But there is nothing we can do, they are too many” (I know this was not you but that other dood, but the idea is the same)
The military is primarily compromised of poor rural folks. Conservatives outnumber liberals 2 to 1. I’m not sure what direction the other quarter (nonvoters) would break.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/10/17/troops-see-rising-political-tension-in-the-ranks-poll-shows/
Please tell us how tensions rise if everyone in the armed forces agree? You also realize this is a poll, and that it also breaks down very different by branches and that is a touch more pressing. Say you have all the marines and army willing to put jackboots on necks but the air force or navy says “no”. Hell what happens if just the doods who run the Triad are like super gay and pissed off, this idea that there is no 5th column possible is funny in its absurdity.