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“If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again,” Vance replied. Hegseth agreed that “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.” But, he added, “we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this.”

Miller, the Trump confidant, effectively ended the conversation by saying that the president had been clear. “Green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return.”

Edit: The texts are released to public

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      Yeah and the only way to leak it, is to invite the wrong people. But somehow they managed even that.

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        That must have been in purpose because how the flying frack do you accidentally invite a hostile (to you, that is) journalist into a top secret chat about war plans?

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          The problem is that they were discussing national defense information outside of approved classified systems. I mean Signal is secure yeah, but phones are not.

          • Hey boss. Remember the guy whose phone we hacked to use his private life against him?
          • Yeah, what about him?
          • I got some classified stuff and the defense plans of the country for next week.
          • . . . wait what?
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            That -of course- too. I was just referring to how stupid you have to be, on top of signal, to invite the wrong person, then never even go and confirm you have the right person, and then just go and discuss war plans

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          No I’m seriously wondering if they thought some of this would help them somehow. I honestly don’t see how nobody would’ve noticed

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    American exceptionalism and arrogance on full display. They’re #1, and everyone else sucks. We can’t even wipe our arses without the guiding hand of the great bald eagle, they saved our arses in WWII and are responsible for taking care of everything ever in human history

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    Trump and his lackeys are showing the classic signs of fascism.

    “…and in traditional Nazi fashion; one never attributes one’s losses to oneself.”


    Trump: “We Americans subsidize Canada for everything.”

    • Starts Needless Trade War

    Trade war ensues, egg prices skyrockets due to bird-flu in combination with the self-induced trade war

    Trump: hey Europeans can yall please spare some eggs?

    and now for some reason they say they hate "bailing Europe out again"🤣🤣🤣


    Edit:
    Breaking news! I found an insider picture to the current White House:

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    “I think we are making a mistake,” wrote Vance, adding that while only 3% of US trade goes through the Suez canal, 40% of European trade does. “There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary,” he added. “The strongest reason to do this is, as [Trump] said, to send a message."
    Vance was contending that once again the United States is doing what Europe should be.

    Houthis wouldn’t be attacking ships if it weren’t for the US’ meddling in the Middle East.

    Waltz, a foreign policy traditionalist, said: “It will have to be the United States that reopens these shipping lanes.” But he agreed that the administration sought to “compile the cost associated and levy them on the Europeans”.

    Maybe we should levy on the US the costs of the multiple refugee crises they have caused in our neighborhood

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      It’s Europeans fault too. For too long we followed the same line with USA on the middle east crisis, and many have no problem with the genocide that is on the work there. The neighbourhood of Europe (and now even part of it) is unstable from poverty and war, and we were fine with that.