I watched a bit of the meeting, not the whole thing, but the bit where Trump and Vance started lashing out at Zelenskyy. There’s been a lot of talk about it on here, and I agree Trump and Vance are big man babies trying to bully Ukraine into an unfavorable deal, but I’m still not clear on how this affects, well, everything I guess. Can someone ELI5?
Well, most US allies are now confronted with video evidence of how stupid and unreasonable Trump is even when your nation is actively at war against an international adversary who is stealing territory and people are dying.
You can probably bet that even China will be more reticent to cooperate with the US on anything. As much as Trump wants to say America can take care of itself, that’s not true at the moment. More nations will likely start looking at BRICS rather than the G7/G20.
In Canada, people are really worried. I’m anticipating that the tariffs will go through, then cause harm to America, and be paused. After that, I’m hoping cooler heads prevail so he doesn’t fucking invade. If he does, wow, he’s stupid. That’s WW3 material.