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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (216512)9/11/2025 11:27:34 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217523
 
Trump is out of his F'ing mind.

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theatlantic.com Beginning of the End of NATO

This is when the world finds out whether the United States remains committed to Europe’s defense.

By Robert Kagan


Omar Marques / Getty

September 10, 2025, 5:25 PM ET

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Early this morning, Russia sent a swarm of drones into Poland. The crisis of the NATO alliance that people on both sides of the Atlantic have been denying or trying to put off is now here: This is the moment when the world finds out whether the United States remains committed to the defense of its allies.

Ever since he began running for president, Donald Trump has been equivocal at best about America’s security commitments to Europe. The allies have hoped to jolly Trump along, manipulating him by appealing to his vanity, calling him “Daddy,” acceding to his punitive tariffs without resistance, and generally accepting a humiliating subservience in the hope of at least buying time. The allies have even fantasized about the United States providing some form of security should they put troops in Ukraine; Vladimir Putin was never going to allow European forces in Ukraine, so this fantasy might have survived indefinitely.



To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (216512)9/12/2025 12:10:16 AM
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I deliberately refrained from commenting on the entire and all associated affairs centred around Kirk's political assassination because I feel I do not know enough. I hear what the press say about Kirk's politics. I leave it at that.

The assassin cabal must be caught and punished, but unclear to me such can / shall be. I just do not know.

AI gave me an earful, but AI might be too early to judge amongst the entire spectrum of possibilities.

In some sense 2025 09 10 might be more consequential than 2001 09 11

I wait

I feel terrible for Kirk's wife and babies.



To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (216512)9/12/2025 6:44:25 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217523
 
What if anything do you make of the assassination of Mr Kirk ?