in a way, Trump is actually succeeding in getting NATO member countries to reach the 2% GDP commitment for military spending… by scaring countries into arming themselves against the United States.

it’s like convincing your friend to install an alarm system by threatening to rob them at gunpoint.

I’m too much of a coward, honestly. I’m trans, so if I get arrested I’ll be made to detransition and sent to a men’s prison and assigned to a violent criminal as his prison wife. I’ll serve Canada though, if it comes to it.