Rubio calls for U.S. and Europe to "revitalize an old friendship" in speech to allies

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maro-rubio-donald-trump-european-union-munich-security-conference/

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ga_so_arte@piefed.world · 52 pts · 190d

He says this while the US begins to actively fund and create fascist organizations to destroy the EU. The US is a disease on the continent.

You@feddit.org · 30 pts · 190d (3 replies)

"offered a tone seen as softer and more reassuring"? - the message was still the same. Read between the lines and the threats are still there. And as long as the current US government is actively interfering in other countries elections, founding extremist right wing organisations, letting their billionaire tech bros influence people by spreading lies and hate and telling other countries how and with whom to do business we are very far from putting any trust into their words. Their deeds do the talking.

testaccount372920@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 190d (2 replies)

In a way I'm glad that at first the words matched the deeds even though they're backpedalling now. Many people needed to hear those words to understand what it's really like.

You@feddit.org · 5 pts · 190d (1 reply)

We have to hope people don't forget.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 189d

Genocide now by children of victims of genocide in the '40s kinda suggests people will forget. If those people have such a thirst for mass killing, the rest of us haven't a chance.

treno_rosso@feddit.org · 24 pts · 190d

We're good, thank you.

jgjl@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 190d

Lol

vane@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 190d (1 reply)

Couple months of threatening and now they want to be friends again. US is like 5 years old kid with dementia.

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 190d

What else should one expect of a country that elected a criminal, demented moron with the mind of a 5 year old? Twice.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 189d

We will still threaten, abuse you, but we want to be friends.

ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 190d (2 replies)

I hope you die of cancer, you lying cunt.

susi7802@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 190d (1 reply)

Don’t do that: my beverage just exited through my nose 😂

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 189d

That's a waste of fine strawberry bublé soda.

subOrange@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 190d

It goes both ways, chump.

Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 189d (1 reply)

For decades allies could pretend it was a friendship. However the level of toxicity has been exposed so thoroughly under Trump that we can't go back. We cannot be bullied and held back by the US for their sole gain any longer.

III@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d

The absolute best the US should ever expect going forward is a zero trust transaction.

Lanske@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 190d

Friends usually share mutual respect, and quite frankly, we have lost all respect for you Yanks

theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 189d

Impeach and remove your dictator. Then we talk.

notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 190d

Trump and his slaves are lying, dishonest crooks & the EU should bar them from entering our territory.

verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 10 pts · 190d
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Ooops@feddit.org · 9 pts · 190d

And I would assure him that corrupt fascist-supporting lying turncoats (anyone remember his publically told opinion about Trump before kissing his ass?) can go fuck themselves. Which incidently is the soft-toned version of my opinion about this piece of shit.

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 190d (2 replies)

The resignation and suicide of your president might be a good olive branch you absolute blithering toilet stain.

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 189d
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MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
  • resignation and conviction

Don't let him take the easy way out.

RalfWausE@feddit.org · 8 pts · 190d
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 190d (2 replies)

🫨 Something must have shifted for the worse if the US admin is taking a step back.

copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 190d

Maybe they believe sponsoring the far-right in Europe will give them enough influence soon enough? That sounds like too much long-term thinking for Trump but Rubio, Vance, and Thiel might go for such a scheme.

rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 7 pts · 190d

They aren't taking any steps back. They are doing the exact same things, just saying something else so that they can later say "we wanted to be friends, it was you who didn't" while doing all they can to fuck us over.

susi7802@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 190d (2 replies)

He is the kind that I would like to meet in a dark room with my whip and a taser.

hilljack26301@feddit.org · 4 pts · 190d
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cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 190d
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alexquiniou@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 189d

Nope.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 190d

rubio is a like a background characther that doesnt do much.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d

I call him Reek

Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 190d

It’s too late now, sorry.

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 190d (2 replies)

They have a hell of a lot of revitalizing to do. A formal excuse to Denmark and Greenland would be a good start.

We'll wait.

pulsey@feddit.org · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

Task: Trump apologizes and says he made a mistake. level: impossible.

phx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d

I'd rather the people apologize after making an example of the billionaires and politicians that got us into this shit-show

ylph@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d

..or it gets the hose again, added Rubio.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 189d
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plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 190d

The EU doesn't speak out for Iran or Cuba. That suggests that the EU still supports the US.