He kind of is.
It’s obvious how this plays out.
Trump stops funding Ukraine. Ukraine starts failing even harder and begs for more aid and boots in the ground from Europe.
Parts of Europe (including UK) agree, because Putin is a buwwy and heroes stand up for victims. Also Putin is trying to take over the world, we’ll be speaking Russian in ten years if we don’t blah blah.
Russia is now more directly at war with the rest of Europe. More white people dead. WW3 looms.
To Europe, Trump will be portrayed as a big nasty reckless meanie who defunded our + Ukraines defences, allowing Russian gains. Which “forced” Europe to fight harder to defend Ukraine. Which caused escalation of the war. Not that Europe kept pouring fuel on the fire of an unwinnable war.
Trump knows how the script of these theatrics will play out and has so far done nothing to avert it.
I don't understand this line of reasoning, since it works on this ignorant assumption that:
-EU and Europe are synonymous
-every European leader is a Reddit tier mongoloid hivemind
-every European leader would act like a mongoloid no matter what the US does
First of all, what the EU eurocrats say is separate from what European leaders say. The "Be strong, be brave, be fearless" xeets went out of EU leader accounts, not European leaders. It's a major difference, EU eurocrats can only somewhat steer what European countries can do, but European countries still have sovereignty over what they ultimately do.
Second of all, European leaders are much smarter than they make themselves look like. If they thoroughly drank the "fuck drumpf slava yookraeney" Kool-Aid then the EU help towards Ukraine wouldn't have ended on offloading parts of older military equipment while replacing it with brand new one from the US, since that's how most of it looked like.
Third and most importantly of all, who's to say that the decisions of Europeans leaders up to this point were made
despite the fact that the US was doing all the heavy lifting in the Ukraine aid? Who's to say they won't do a 180 on supporting Ukraine the moment Trump pulls out of it?
Not to mention how each European country has it's own internal politics, and in each country, what the government and media says, and what the people actually think are two completely separate worlds. Europe is not a hivemind, and in some capacity European leaderships are aware that their geopolitical actions will affect the internal politics. Plus, the EU doesn't have direct control over what European countries do. See rising conflicts between Poles and Ukrainians in Poland despite being bombarded with pro-Ukrainian propaganda on the daily, and the current Polish government under the leadership of Donald Tusk allowing Polish miltary by the Belarussian border to shoot immigrants, something that the Eurocrats would never allow.
The way I see it is that it'll play out differently. Eurocrats will keep up their delusions, but many European leaderships, AKA people that actually have a say on what's gonna happen, will have a wake-up call.
I saw this chart being pushed.
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If you actually look at it for more then five seconds and think about Ukraine it's hilarious and shows how fucking useless the EU was.
Europe as a whole was very passive in their aid to Ukraine, because the US was doing all of the heavy lifting, basically using margins to show their unbridled support. But now with them gone, they'll calculate what it would cost to support Ukraine the same way US did. Most leaderships will realize that it's insanity, they still need their own military and helping Ukraine would mean destroying their own defenses, so they'll do a 180 on the support. It's possible some governments, like Germany's, will be so disillusioned they'll double down and drive themselves to further ruin. Rest assured that one way or the other, Zelensky's support from Europe will also dwindle from the result of the US backing out of providing aid.
Then, depending on whether or not Zelensky will face the truth or not, a few scenarios can happen:
-he'll still insist on fighting the war with rocks and sticks, if he really lost it, he will start to make asinine demands for European countries to send all of their military to Ukraine where they'll rightfully say he lost it and cut all support like the US, his own people will see that he has completely lost it, where he either gets assassinated and the new leadership becomes a wildcard or ultimately Poland will border with Russia as Ukraine loses the war proper,
-he finally wakes up and finally decides that it's time for peace now that he can't fight any longer, but even if he achieves it, it'll be on way, way worse terms than he'd have if he didn't chimp out at the White House, or better yet, realized that he wouldn't win those 1-2 years ago.
Not to mention that even if Trump pulls out of aiding Ukraine, this doesn't give Putin a clear path to a direct war with Europe. If you look at geopolitics like at a game of HOI4, sure. But the US has a lot to lose if Europe goes into full war with Russia. For example, if the Netherlands were to be nuked, that's ASML gone, and without ASML you have no semiconductors, and those Intel fabs in the US become useless the moment a Twinscan breaks, since TSMC is not the only dependency bottleneck in semiconductors that are super important in this day and age. Not to mention many many other little intricacies like that that would put Russia into direct conflict with the US if they wanted to do a Total Europe Death scenario. You have to be insanely ignorant if you think that the US is completely out of the equation in whatever happens between Europe and Russia just because the US doesn't help Ukraine anymore. Trump knows this, Putin knows this, they both know it would lead to WW3 and none of them will be dumb enough to let such a scenario happen.
This scenario could only happen if we'd assume the most ridiculous, exaggerated stereotypes and generalizations are the representation of reality, which obviously didn't help NAFOfags win the war with the army of troglodytes that didn't discover fire yet.
