Donald Trump has again attacked Nato for not supporting the US in the Iran war, following a private meeting with its Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House.
In a post shared to Truth Social after the meeting, the US President said: “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN.”
Meanwhile, Rutte has described his meeting to CNN with Trump as “very frank” and “very open”, despite clear disagreements.
Hard disagree. ‘Normal’ as you describe hasn’t existed for even wealthy Russians in the country since the first round of sanctions in 2014.
It’s been a decade since they’ve been reliant on external sources for trivialities, and their economy since the union fell has been nearly exclusively oil, gas, and military hardware anyway.
It’s why sanctions have largely not worked; they were given no time to actually become lazy westerners despite the west’s best’s efforts; so the average day to day is no different now than it was 30 years ago. For some people it’s no different now than it was in the 1980s, except their rent is higher since there’s no state protections.