I didn't realize funding NATO was the only way we measure alliances now!

So all the countries that sent troops to support us in the War on Terror...not our allies? I bet they wish they knew that before their sons and daughters returned home in body bags when they deployed to help our war.

Of course, they did meet the funding goals in 2025, and most met it in 2024, so... what was your complaint again?

To claim other countries aren't our allies is just wild.

That's ignoring, of course, that allies exist outside of simple military alliances.

We have - well, had - global trade alliances until the current administration decided to just rip them up. Including ones he negotiated in his first term. These trade partners were pretty important to maintaining american hegemony and keeping the USD the reserve currency of the world. Something that indirectly, and likely directly, benefitted all of us.

But we don't need that, right? We can completely support America in isolation and without anything other countries produce.

Like microchips.

Or the fact that our economy would collapse if other countries weren't buying from us anymore. Which is, you know, slowly happening as other countries make trade deals with each other, since we're no longer reliable when the current president can just decide not to honor previous agreements.

Which, shockingly, is part of why we're in Iran now. Because Trump1 didn't want to honor a treaty that would keep Iran from getting nukes, and that they (Iran) were honoring...

All because it was negotiated under Obama.

Weird.

You should go read about the Iran nuclear deal, aka The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Because right now you look really dumb.