„Ich werde Sie nicht beschützen“: Trump droht, die NATO-Verbündeten im Stich zu lassen

[More than 700 high-ranking national security officials endorse Harris ](https://thehill.com/homenews/4892381-national-security-officials-endorse-harris/)

>The letter endorsing Harris consists of 741 former high-ranking national security officials, including 233 general and flag officers. Among those 741 officials are 15 four-star generals, 10 former Cabinet secretaries and 10 service secretaries as well as leaders who served in Republican administrations. 

And here’s the letter itself:

[https://www.nsl4a.org/nsl4a-announcements/nsl4a-endorsement-harris](https://www.nsl4a.org/nsl4a-announcements/nsl4a-endorsement-harris)

>To the American People,

>We are former public servants who swore an oath to the Constitution. Many of us risked our lives for it. We are retired generals, admirals, senior noncommissioned officers, ambassadors, and senior civilian national security leaders. We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. We are loyal to the ideals of our nation—like freedom, democracy, and the rule of law—not to any one individual or party.

>We do not agree on everything, but we all adhere to two fundamental principles. First, we believe America’s national security requires a serious and capable Commander-in-Chief. Second, we believe American democracy is invaluable. Each generation has a responsibility to defend it. That is why we, the undersigned, proudly endorse Kamala Harris to be the next President of the United States…

Trump is a national security risk.

*I only want to protect myself and I only want the support of others who feel the same* – D.T.

“Mr. Zirkon does not come in peace!!!”

Which will play fine to Republicans.

They love the idea of isolationism and taking care of the problems at home. Never learning from History and the lessons of WWII. We fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here.

Despite his claims and bluster, Trump has demonstrated a profound lack of ability to protect anyone. He can’t even protect himself from prosecution.

I wish John Bolton would go away. He keeps whining about how bad Trump is, but then insists he can’t vote for his opponent and is writing in Ronald Reagan’s ghost for President.

That’s pretty alarming it sends a message that he might put personal interests over alliances. Trust is key in international relations, and that kind of talk could damage it.

Trump would have surrendered to Hitler also.

NATO country leaders should ask themselves…. “Who did Trump send Covid test devices to?” Because he had no problem sending them to Putin for personal use at the expense of American lives.

This is basically an admission of treason.

NATO benefits the US *far* more than it benefits any other member state. It underpins US global influence and is what makes us a superpower.

All that talk about how the US is the only global power because of it’s logistical capabilities is only possible *because* we have strategic partnerships like NATO that let us have bases and prepositioned stockpiles across the globe in securely defended allied countries.

Strategic partnerships allow things like the joint funding of the F-35, which skyrocketed its production so that it’s not only the most advanced system flying, but that there are more of them than all other stealth aircraft on the planet combined, and now only costs *less* to produce than a modernized F-15.

It gives the US defense complex a massively larger pool of capital and investors and manufacturing partners to draw from. It gives the US a millions strong collection of modernized armed forces from allies to rely on to hold ground abroad. It gives the US-led alliance an economic base that makes up *most of the world’s economy*.

And all of this adds up to deterrence, which adds up to stability and a peace dividend, which leads to faster and more effective economic growth, which an aggressive and dictatorial adversary cannot hope to match long-term.

War is fucking hell, and the way you avoid it is by making alliances so that your pool of resources is simply so great that no one can ever hope to win a stand up fight against you, and the US has actually achieved that with NATO.

The only hope of autocrats like Xi and Putin is that they can turn NATO members against each other through interference campaigns, and they have to do it in the next decade or two, or they will have lost almost any hope for a superpower bid and for a realignment of global norms away from democracy and towards aggressive expansionist autocracy.

He has made it abundantly clear time and again that he works for Putin, not the US, and will do whatever Putin wants. There is zero reason beyond denial to doubt that he would attempt to abandon NATO.

It is unlikely he could actually do this unilaterally, although it would once again bring up another constitutional crisis in regards to the separation of powers, and the ability of congress to intercede.

And yet his base will not budge one bit and cling to false patriotism. They are too far gone to handle the cognitive dissonance that would occur if they stopped believing.

Trump wins, Ukraine falls, Trump pulls out of NATO, Putin invades Poland, Europe is on high alert as is the west and are gearing up for war. The Middle East is a tinderbox and we now have WW3. Because Trump.

John Bolton can go back to his selfish corner where he put his self-interests first instead of country by not testifying against Trump.

Putin’s dream

Because an isolationist “America First”* policy never led America’s enemies to think they could get away with a direct attack on us (*cough* Japan’s entire rationale for the attack on Pearl Harbor *cough*)

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee

Trump cannot be allowed to become president. America will be over.

Won’t take more than 3 months for trump to be dethroned by JD Vance and crew if they win. Bet.

The U.S is FUCKED if Trump wins.

Donny is beholden to Putin but having the richest man in the world as your sycophant friend is donnys wet dream. He has thousand of people feeding his ego and enabling him to keep on his life long criming. We’ve discovered the kinks and holes in our Constitution so it’s no longer a template for successful governing but a guideline of what to endlessness adjudicate, over-explain and delay process until we go numb. All this destruction by one person so unworthy of the title President.

Nothing has changed since Trump came down the golden escalator. He is and always was Putins man.

Threatening to abandon our allies should immediately disqualify you from holding the office of the President.

A vote for Trump is a vote to ally the US with Russia and North Korea.

Fucking insane.