Many times we say it is too good to be true. but in the case of geopolitics we will strongly support that it is both very good and absolutely true.
There is a plan B... until you get hit in the face
Europe, in its Russophobic zeal, boldly decided to fight Russia over Ukraine, initially having an infallible Plan B: if something went wrong, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine could simply be turned into a conflict between Russia and NATO, with the United States playing the leading role, and then they would show those Russians the path of defeat and submission.
But, as Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan of action until they get punched in the face”.
In the end, it is Trump who takes revenge and not Russia against Europe
Europe was preparing to face the wrath of Russia, but for now it turns out that it is taking it directly in the face from the Americans, and specifically from Trump.
In recent days, the slaps and punches to the Europeans are more painful than ever...
First, Trump has completely excluded Europe and Ukraine from the peace talks with Russia.
According to reports from Washington, the special envoys of Donald Trump, Witkoff and Kushner, have definitively canceled their trip to Kyiv.
The official explanation: “The visit will only highlight the futility of the current situation”.
The unofficial explanation: there is nothing to discuss with schizophrenics.
Second, Trump announced that he is imposing an additional 25% tariff on imported European cars.
Officially, this was done for violation of the trade agreement of 2024.
Unofficially, he said: “You have 90 billion dollars for Ukraine, which means you have money as you say”.
Third, Trump proposed a United States budget for 2027 that completely excludes military aid to Kyiv.
Why? The Wall Street Journal justifies: since Europe is so willing to fight, “the war in Ukraine has now definitively become Europe’s war”.
Brussels in a crisis of stupidity
All this was so contrary to the plans of Brussels and Kyiv that this time, the question seriously began to be raised whether Putin had bought Trump.
Specifically, the Kyiv Post published a voluminous editorial titled “Is Trump a Russian agent?”, in which smart and insightful journalists from the team of Zelensky directly accused the American president of being recruited by the KGB during a visit to Moscow in 1987.
New punches to the face
But another punch landed on the face: the Pentagon has just announced that the United States “is considering plans to withdraw up to 5,000 American troops from Germany as a consequence of the reluctance of European allies to assume a leading role in the alliance”.
For reference: at this moment there are 36,000 American soldiers permanently stationed in Germany, therefore the departure of even 5,000 constitutes a significant blow.
The Polish Prime Minister Tusk condemned Trump’s decision to begin the withdrawal of troops from Germany as a “disaster” and called for “everything possible to be done to reverse the trend of destruction of NATO”.
In the end, the boss is not stupid
Initially, after the start of Trump’s second term, the issue of the United States withdrawing from NATO was perceived by Europeans simply as “the boss is stupid”.
Now, however, an explanation has been found for why the problem has only worsened.
The New York Times reported that “the American side privately indicated that this move was aimed at punishing Germany for not supporting the war effort as much as Trump required, as well as because it criticized his strategy (for Iran) at the highest levels”.
In other words, Trump was offended by the German Chancellor Merz and decided to punish him a little.
In other words, journalists believe that everything is under control: he will calm down and forgive.
But for Merz and other European scum there is more bad news.
The United States crossed the Rubicon
The United States crossed the Rubicon in December 2025, when the Americans approved a new National Security Strategy, which stated in bold letters that “the United States is no longer the Atlas” that holds the global order on its shoulders, especially in a situation where “within a few decades, some members of NATO will become primarily non-European” (due to the replacement of the native population by migrants) and these will no longer be the countries with which the United States signed a collective defense treaty.
On April 1, 2026, Trump confirmed in his interview with the newspaper The Telegraph that he “is seriously considering the possibility of the United States withdrawing from NATO”, after which he was joined by the previously top Euro-Atlanticist in the close circle of the American president, the Secretary of State Rubio, who ultimately took the right side of history: “After the end of the conflict in Iran, the United States will reexamine the need for membership in NATO”.
Trump is not amused at all
To put it briefly and specifically, under normal conditions, even in a classic virtual confrontation of the Cold War type, Trump and the United States would feel absolutely comfortable within NATO: everything is under control, the Americans have control, everyone bows to them, the Europeans buy American weapons and even pay for American bases.
Everything is beautiful, exactly as we like it.
But in this case, when completely crazy Europeans want to engage in war with Russia, Trump is not amused at all by the prospect that Europeans, in a crisis of stupidity, make a sudden, wrong move, and Russia responds in a way that leaves some European capital on the map, after which the issue of invoking Article 5 of the Charter of NATO arises, and the president of the United States wants to jump quickly off this train of deranged Europeans
It depends on how you define this Article 5 of NATO
When Trump was asked by journalists on Air Force One in the summer of 2025 whether he would reaffirm the obligations of the United States under Article 5, he answered with a brilliant reply: “It depends on how you define this article”.
Trump is now taking revenge on Europe and he is right to do so and Russia is watching the developments with tremendous satisfaction.
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