Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
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Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    "America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

    The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter. Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Now this should be the quote of the year. America fucking blew it. It got high on its own farts and basically elected an idiot - twice - to destroy all the soft power this country built over a century. We deserve what’s coming to us. America needs to be humbled by having its former allies turn its back to it the way America did with Ukraine.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Well we built that trust over 80 years of building relationships including some significant investment in trade and military power. We’ll just have to do that again

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      5·
      2 months ago

      The trick is that we’d have to remain consistent and reliable across administrations. I don’t know if that’s possible anymore. Too many fascist jackasses have been allowed to have their way.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah. Even with Trump administration being the pile of shit we expected, I don’t see the Republican Party purging the cancer and I don’t see the Democratic Party, even if renews itself, to be able to hold onto power long enough to purge the fascist menace.