This deal is dog shit, and there's no point in negotiating anything while the US president is a deranged Trump, imo. We need the European Union and NATO, so if Trump doesn't want us to join, he can go to hell.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The weird thing about sovereign nations, they are sovereign.

A government can borrow 5 trillion in funds from banks in another country and just not pay it back. Sovereign nation, they can do that.

Sign a treaty saying that they won't bomb the shit out of their neighbor. Then bomb the shit out their neighbor. Sovereign nations can do that.

Make an agreement with a delusional geriatric giving them mineral rights to half their country. Then invalidate it when the idiot is out of office. Sovereign nations can do that.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

I think in Ukraine's position, this wouldn't be a good idea. They unfortunately need to keep to their agreements to keep the support of their allies. I think they'd be much better off to just not sign the agreement and let their European allies take over. Either that or sign something that makes Trump think he's getting something when he's really not (my understanding is that almost all of the rare earths now sit on territory occupied by Russia, so that's likely to be what the original agreement was).

[–] eugeniolbocca@mastodon.uno 1 points 3 days ago

@The_v @Vopyr this is why the EU is so revolutionary