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Trump just threatened to dismantle the European-American alliance as we know it

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Donald Trump just lobbed a grenade into the normally staid world of European-American diplomacy, using a joint interview with two of Europe’s biggest newspapers to call NATO “obsolete,” predict that the European Union would fall apart and announce that the US wouldn’t really care if it did, and threaten to potentially start a trade war with Germany over BMW’s plans to build a manufacturing plant in Mexico.

For good measure, Trump also criticized German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of Washington’s closest allies, while hinting that he’d be willing to lift the sanctions imposed on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has rattled many in Europe by annexing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and threatening to use force against other of his neighbors.

...There is only country that benefits from all of these moves: Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

http://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/16/14285232/trump-eu-nato-interview
So, again, what the **** is going on here? These ties and cooperative efforts between Trump's crowd and Putin are so obvious and so consistent that there is no possible investigation more urgent than one that delves into what these ties are.

So, again, what the **** is going on here? These ties and cooperative efforts between Trump's crowd and Putin are so obvious and so consistent that there is no possible investigation more urgent than one that delves into what these ties are.