Trump is a walking mass of contradictions. You can find any number of examples on social media where he has in the past said and done the opposite of whatever he happens to be doing today. I have no idea why anyone still takes him seriously, or tries to parse his rambling narrative for signs of meaning. It is fruitless work. The only certainty is that he will shortly argue the reverse and accuse those who draw attention to his incoherence of peddling ‘fake news’ - a phrase he claims to have personally coined. These inconsistencies occur on a daily, even hourly basis, but after a decade or more, they have become accepted and even normalised. They are his signature philosophy.
This is just one obvious example
He is a caricature of human. Yet 77+Million morons voted for this asshole. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♀️— Get Lost….AndeL 🤵🏽♂️✨ (@4nd3l.bsky.social) 4 April 2026 at 00:23
He now claims that the federal government in America can't afford social care, Medicare or Medicaid because they're fighting another war in the Middle East, one which he kicked off by choice. This week, Trump has asked Congress for $1.5 trillion for defence spending in 2027, a massive 40% increase over 2026.
However, the greatest contradiction of all is his attitude towards NATO. Recent threats that he is considering withdrawal from the organisation after the other 31 members refused to join in his illegal attack on Iran, will probably fail (Congress needs to make the decision with a two-thirds majority), but it reveals his thinking and shows that he would be unlikely to defend Europe if Russia attacked.
Article 5 is essentially null and void while he’s in charge.
And that brings me to the main point. Trump has never made any secret of his disdain for NATO members, reserving the most vitriolic remarks for those who don’t meet the 2% target. He wants to see that increased to 5% - and he’s probably right about that. But he fails to acknowledge the primary reason NATO exists or why European nations need to be prepared for a possible military attack.
Leaders of the most important NATO allies are regularly and openly slagged off by Trump. The latest being on Starmer and Macron, but they have all felt a tongue-lashing from the White House's resident moron-in-chief at one time or another.
The threat in April 1949, when NATO was formed, came from the Soviet Union. By then, it was clear that Moscow had no intention of returning to sovereignty any of the countries it had liberated from the Nazis. They had the semblance of sovereignty with elections Russian style, where the only candidates were communists in thrall to the Kremlin. It was only the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, an event which Putin regards as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century" and a "genuine drama" that led to the "disintegration of historical Russia". He has claimed it caused economic, social, and personal hardships for 25 million ethnic Russians.
It was established as a military alliance - including the US, UK, and Canada — to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
As of 2025, the USA has up to 100,000 military personnel stationed in Europe, operating over more than 50 major, permanent bases and numerous smaller installations. The highest concentrations of troops and infrastructure are in Germany, Italy, the UK and Poland, with the US European Command (EUCOM) HQ based in Stuttgart,
God knows how much this costs the US annually or how much it has spent in total in the 77 years since 1949 on European security. It must dwarf the $8 trillion that Trump claims the US has spent in Middle Eastern wars. It is an absolutely colossal sum, to which the Europeans members can add another huge amount of national income, which will only increase in the years ahead. The numbers must be astronomical, in the multiple trillions of dollars. All because of the mindset of those in power in Moscow, then as now.
But has Trump ever offered the slightest hint of criticism of Russia or Vladimir Putin? No. He doesn’t blame Moscow for the massive financial burden placed on American and European taxpayers for three-quarters of a century to defend the continent against a military attack from the east.
If Russia were a peaceful neighbour, imagine the savings that could have been made. Think of all that wasted investment on security across Europe, the multiple aircraft developed, brought into service and then scrapped without ever being used, the V-bombers, the missiles, the tanks and fighting vehicles.
Apart from that, Russia is still spending millions on damaging Cyber attacks, political bribery, election interference via social media and every other means of destabilising the West. It is waging war in Ukraine and actively helping Iran defend itself against aerial bombardment by Israel and the US. It recently broke the fuel blockade imposed by Trump on Cuba.
Trump apparently doesn’t mind any of this and makes no secret of it either. It's almost as if he welcomes and admires it.
He absolutely worships Putin and has no regrets about the $trillions spent by American taxpayers defending themselves and their allies in Europe from a man he seems to regard as a dear friend, above any possible criticism.
It makes no sense, does it? It is without doubt THE great unanswerable contradiction. If it does turn out eventually to be some kind of 'kompromat' it will be the best investment ever made by the Russians and the most expensive face-saving exercise in history.
