The nauseating spectacle of European leaders grovelling before Trump at the NATO summit

Caricature of Donald Trump in a sailor outfit labeled 'International Law'.

Trump hilariously responds to ‘daddy’ comments from NATO chief

“I May Vomit” 

Those are the immortal first words spoken by the man as he arrives, in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” – the classic 1939 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Why did this come to my mind as I watched the evening news tonight?

Oh yes – I just felt like that man, as I learned how, one after another, at the NATO Summit, these pathetic sycophants, including Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, dutifully bowed and scraped before the Donald Deity (as they promised to buy ever more weapons from American manufacturers). By the way, Trump snubbed NATO’s Indo-Pacific partners, which includes Australia. But Australia’s getting used to accepting being snubbed by Trump and his war-mongering lackey, Pete Hegseth.

The ABC’s Europe Correspondent, Elias Clure, might have felt a bit the same way, as he reported on the meeting:

“Donald Trump was given a royal welcome by the monarch of the Netherlands as he arrived at the NATO summit in The Hague. He left feeling like a king.

Member nations agreed to lift their defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP over 10 years and Mr Trump was quick to take credit, describing it as a “big win” for the United States… the event, which aims to hear from delegations of the 32 NATO countries and many more partners and allies, seemed to revolve around the presence of one man.”

Clure went on to describe the gushing of the NATO Secretary-General. Mar Rutte, who was fulsome in his praise of America’s bombing in Iran:

“… the signal it sends to the rest of the world that this president, when it comes to it, yes, he is a man of peace, but if necessary, he is willing to use strength.”

So, we all think it’s beaut that America decided to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites – bombing being apparently a great way to get peace? I mean, all this is, as Richard Marles loves to tell us, is in order to preserve the “global rules-based order.”

But do these pathetic flunkeys in their tax-payer funded jobs have any idea of what the international rules-based order actually is?

It’s the Charter of The International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg which set up international law on war crimes. The “supreme” war crime is explained by world international law expert Geoffrey Robertson – the war crime of aggression:

“It is constituted by using armed force against a fellow United Nations member with such “character, gravity and scale” that it violates the UN charter prohibition on one member country attacking another. A “spectacular military success, the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities may have been, but it was, as a matter of international law, no different from Russia’s attack on Ukraine, or the George W Bush Tony Blair, John Howard invasion of Iraq. These are all cases of a breach of the world order agreed after the last war and likely to encourage emulation.”

The Donald worshippers also don’t seem aware that Iran is a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and there is no evidence that it’s making a nuclear weapon. Iran has always allowed IAEA inspections of its nuclear facilities. Like many other nations it has enriched uranium for medical and other industrial purposes, and this is legal.

Israel, on the other hand, is widely believed to have nuclear weapons – estimated at anything from 90 to 200 nuclear warheads. Israel has refused to join the NPT, and refused to allow IAEA inspections.

Donald Trump and his nefarious acolytes are not content with wrecking America’s national civil institutions – a process made easier, now that the Supreme Court has put Trump above the law.

Now Trump is moving on to destroy international law.

I can’t go on, I am feeling too sick.

 

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About Noel Wauchope 58 Articles
I am a long-term nuclear-free activist. I believe that everyone, however non expert, can, and should, have an opinion.

5 Comments

  1. The coalition are strident in their criticism of Albanese that he has not yet had a face to face meeting with Trump. They seem to be playing a game orchestrated by the right-wing media who will pounce as soon as the meeting takes place.
    We know that Trump has nothing but disdain for the world leaders who have been scrambling to pay homage to him and of whom he says “they want to kiss my ass for a trade deal”.
    Albanese is playing it cautiously and he certainly doesn’t want to be seen grovelling to this buffoon and Australia would never forgive him if he became an ass kisser.

    I think Albanese is right to play this one very carefully and to maintain Australia’s and his own dignity.

  2. Praising a political pox, grovelling before a grub, humiliation before a humbugging liar, these leaders fail in basic duty, to navigate their people to safety. One should not grin up a grotty predator when swift terminal action is best policy, but this Trump goes on successfully for now, nearly tripping but ever aided by devoted underlings. This scene, repulsive recently in its crawling fear, sees us all reduced, threatened, challenged as to how to curb the flows of filth, foolishness, fictions.

  3. Initially everyone was concerned about the orange idiot becoming America’s dictator…………..but after seeing how those dribbling idiots in Europe are carrying on about their “daddy” perhaps we should be more concerned about him becoming the world’s dictator. Especially now that he is going around trying to dictate to foreign countries how much they should spend on defence under the threat of tariffs.
    With Albo standing firm against his demands it is even more concerning we now have the Noalition standing up and demanding he now just “bend over” and give Chump what he wants. Absolutely sickening.

  4. The USA has pissed on the “global rules-based order” for as long as I’ve lived and Israel has pissed on it ever since being invented by Zionist terrorists in 1947. But Australia is a craven US vassal state and that has been demonstrated time and time again.

  5. Albanese’s judgment has been sound in not queuing up for a sycophantic and brief meeting with Trump

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