US Vice President JD Vance has called on European states to show greater independence, urging them not to be US “vassals.” He also said EU governments could have done more to oppose Washington over the Iraq War.
This seems like an attempt to undermine NATO. The only time article 5 has been used was after 9/11.
By saying Europe had a choice and should have resisted, he lays the foundation for the US to not follow through on their NATO commitments.Edit: The commenter below is right, the article 5 was used for Afghanistan, not Iraq. My whole argument is thus invalid
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It’s online with divisive rhetoric meant to drive US isolationism
After the US is isolated, what’s next?
I remember when Republicans renamed french fries to freedom fries because France opposed the Iraq War
His brain is freedom fried.
Why didn’t you stop me from hurting those people? This is all your fault!
Fucking eyelined moron
… the Iraq War that the US started? What the fuck is he talking about?
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They are trying to paint all previous administrations as bad.
“Look what you made me do!” - Every domestic abuser ever
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For a while a disturbing number of places in America were calling French fries “freedom fries” because France didn’t want to invade Afghanistan with us. From my recollection, most of Europe was against it and the UK was the biggest backer of the invasion. I was in high school at the time so I could be wrong.
Close. French fries were renamed because France refused to join the Iraq war, stating they looked at the intelligence and didn’t see evidence of WMDs. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that this was “Old Europe” talking and that the Eastern European countries were more willing to join the war.
We had a lot of anti war protests here in the UK, not that it made any difference.
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I remember the lead up. There was a lot of action against it. But the US was clamoring really fucking hard for the war since the neo-cons wanted to invade Iraq well before 9/11.
Fuck you, JD.
Well, he’s about 20 years too late for such criticism, and if he had been around to say that, his party would have called him a terrorist sympathizer. He probably would be put on a "no-fly list. "
So when the US starts a war with Canada and Denmark to avoid free elections in 2 years, Europe should step in and JD will make sure the US backs down?
OK.
JD should have done more to self abort while he was still a fetus.
I second this
Are they going to rename the freedom fries to vassal fries now?
The cognitive dissonance of this guy is unbelievable.
Agreed. Europe should have also done more to stop two world wars.
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