Michael Weiss

Article 5 could be tested by the Russians or by other actors.

And if collective defense doesn't work because the United States refuses to send troops, that's the end of NATO, right?

And I think this is a perspective that for the last year has obtained among a lot of European leadership.

It's beginning to change now because Donald Trump has already essentially torn up

You know, the NATO charter by threatening to go to war with a NATO ally over sovereign NATO and European territory.

Right.

He wants Greenland.

He wants title, as he says.

And he wants the Danes to either sell it.

And if they don't sell it, he wants to send the troops.

Now, he seems to have been talked off that ledge a little bit, but he keeps mentioning Greenland.

So it's we're not quite there.

done with that portfolio yet.

That issue, I think more than even Ukraine or anything else, has persuaded quite a lot of Europeans that the party's over.

I think that Rubio doesn't believe half or even most of the shit that he says.

I mean, I think a lot of it is just performative.

It's catering to an audience of one.

The word I heard from a source close to him is virtue signaling, which I didn't realize MAGA Republicans do now, but apparently they do.

That was his whole performance in Budapest.

Trump signaling, right.