ELECTION 2024

Do Patriotic Americans REALLY Want Trump To Abandon NATO?

I don’t think Americans want to let Putin carve up Ukraine, steal a land bridge to Kaliningrad from Lithuania, and then maybe conquer the rest of the little Baltics and threaten Poland.

Dash MacIntyre
5 min readJul 13, 2024

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Imagine what will happen to Europe if Trump is reelected:

Let’s say Donald Trump gets reelected, and ends funding for Ukraine, and Europe just doesn’t have the will or political capacity to back up Ukraine militarily or financially. How long would Ukraine last?

Let’s ballpark it that Ukraine’s military lasts six months to a year with careful rationing of supplies, austerity, and strategic withdrawals before it starts really running out of ammunition, equipment, and fortified defensive lines.

Maybe Europe can surprise the world with speed and money to fill the gaping hole Trump’s “America First, Russia Second” foreign policy would leave in Ukraine’s capacity to continue defending itself… or maybe Europe won’t be fast or capable enough, and Ukraine’s population will exhaust itself, and the defense will collapse, and Russia will march into Kiev disinterested in reflecting on how many Russian boys had to die so Putin could…

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Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.