NATO Tensions and the Ukraine Conflict

Good morning everyone. two news stories that we're covering today. The first. The NATO summit, the president has arrived in Turkey for a several day summit with our NATO allies and is threatening to leave NATO threatened to not even show up and has Lambasted NATO ever since stepping foot on the ground with President Erdogan Turkey At the same time, the president, the United States, we're getting mocked right now The Trump curse is in effect, many are saying. Following Belgium's victory against the United States of America, Belgiian fans across the globe Not just Belgian fans, folks, soccer fans across the globe. relentlessly mock the president and the United States of America doing his signature YMCA dance, this dance on the pitch in the locker room and across Belgium saying that the Trump curse is real after the president seemingly meddled in the FIFA World Cup in an effort to get the U.S men's national teeam soccer players red card. We ghost Lots to cover right now. as always, like, comment, share and if you can Supp my work, subscribe to my Sstack link below. I know I ask a lot, but I rely on you to do it. so please, if you can subscribe today Let's talk about Belgium. Let's talk about the United States As you know, last night, the Belgian men's national soccer team beat the United States four to one The game was shrouded with a bunch of controversy, especially after Donald Trump personally called FIFA president in an effort to try to overturn the red card for Folar and Balligan, the star player on the US men's national team Now the game went on without a hitch US men's national team did not play well And well afterwards, Belgian Soccer players did something that is spreading like a wildfire. takeake a look That right there is the signature Trump dance. the YMCA dance that he was doing on stage at campaign rallies repeatedly time and time again They were doing it on the field afterfter the game, they were doing it in the locker room And Belgian fans across the globe are doing it today Why? Well, it's not just because they beat the United States. That's part of it But it's also because of Trump's personal involvement The Belgian national soccer team put out this tweet following their victory, quote, overturn this, referring to the overturning of the Red cart And then We learned that Belgium is openly mocking Trump as because they're framing this victory as, quote G back Why? Well, back when Donald Trump was running for president, he said something that Belgian fans remember today US. Republican presidential candidate, this is from twenty sixteen said that living in Brussels, the capital of Belgium is like living in a quote Tlephone becausecause of the lack of assimilation of the Muslim population, quote You go to Brussels, I was in Brussels a long time ago, twenty years ago, so beautiful, everythingvery is so beautiful. It's like living in a hellhole right now He told Fox Business Network It happened after he was asked about his plan back then to ban Muslim migrants and tourists to the United States of America, the Muslim man. Remember that? Well, he was asked about it in twenty sixteen. He called Brussels a hellhole And in response Belgian fans today are saying, Well, we're no longer a hehole. We just beat Team USA It came as Trump was landing in Turkey for the NATO summit. And as he was landing, he has now urged Congress to pass a massive spending package for the United States military three hundred fifty billion dollars in value He's also urging Congress to pass the Save America Act, the voting rights legislation, which has for a long time now been caught up because they don't have the votes. neither in the House nor in the Senate. Now they're going to try to pass it this week in the next several weeks ' unclear whether they're able to do so. They only have I believe it's about twenty four days left between now and November to do so Remember, Congress doesn't work every day. Congress only works a couple of weeks out of the month if that And so when you look at legislative days, they don't have many more days left, and it doesn't seem like they're going to be able to pass it But he did arrive in NATO. making clear that he didn't want to beat The NATO Alliance from the United States perspective really hangs in the balance Further troop drawdowns in Europe And are you satisfied with the progress that NATO allies? Well, we're see. I was very disappointed with NATO And frankly, if it weren't held in Turkey, we're My friend happens to be a very strong leader Very strong now person, it's possible that I wouldn't have attended it I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he's gone all out It is a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey or any place else. It's a big thing but we weren't treated well because we did something in Iran We don't need anybody's help I didn't even want their help beforefore I asked, they said they wouldn't be there. We've invested trillions of dollars in NATO Why to protect European countries and Others, Canada, etceta. But to protect people Countries from generally speaking, it used to be the Soviet Union. now it's Russia And I say that's fine But you would think that they'd be very willing to do something to help us and they really weren't When we talk about NATO The Pident perceives that the United States was insulted by NATO because NATO did not give the United States greenland That's where this is all stemming from With respect to what Well, that's what hurt my relationship with NATO because Greenland doesn't help Denmark Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland But it's an important part for the United States. And it's surrounded by China ships and Russian ships And that's not going to happen. The ships is It's not gonna to happen It was Greenland that in my and it continues to be That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark And when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all the money we spend to help them with Russia We don't have to spend any money. We could remove all of our soldiers out of Europe Because as you probably noticed, Europe's a very different place than it was twenty years ago. A lot different, much different. It's a much different and they' better to be careful with immigration and energy If they're not careful with those two things, you're not going to have a Europe anymore Okay, thank you very much, everyone He not can I start? And one of the big topics of conversation this week will be Russia and Ukraine Trump said he could finish this war in twenty four hours. It's been fifteen months since he took office more now actually. Here's what he had to say of it with what Never changed I just don't want them killing people You know, doesn't affect the United States Biden was here, he gave them hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment. Now I sell the equipment for you know fair price, the full price And I sell it not to Ukraine. I sell it to the European Union. They pay us With me, it's not anything to do other than I'd like to save lives You have twenty five, thirty five Thiries. One time it hit forty one thousand a month Souls They're dead. They leave their mother in Ukraine. They leave their mother and father in Russia, Ukraine They wave goodbyes And a week later they're dead It's crazy. I would like to see. It doesn't affect us. It's really, you know, it's far away It affects Europe. Much more. we're there to help Europe. It doesn't affect the United States. We have an ocean in between You know It's just I can't stand watching what's happening I've seen the pictures of those battlefields. And it's a drone war. It's a war of drones. It's a whole new technology And we're actually the leader in drones now. We have the most sophisticated drones, but People wouldn't believe how violent it is and I've seen the battlefields. They send me pictures. I actually want to say Don't send him to repeat. This man right here sends me pictures Pete Hgg said And I said, Pete, you know what doesnn't help to look. Doesn't help to look. So we're going to see what the next several days bring from Turkey. I'm talking to folks on the ground there repeatedly over the next twenty four hours, so I'll have more updates for you there. Like, comment, share, subscribe to my Substack link below to support and I'll see you soon for more I'm Keiana and I leveled up my business with Shopify. Once I figured out that Shopify was a thing, I never turn back. I can create a site with my eyes closed. Shopify thinks ahead of us, you know, and it thinks about the customer more than anything. 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