DrALJONES<p>Interview: "Imperial Decline”</p><p>At the NATO summit, almost all European nations agreed to raise military spending to 5% of GDP after Trump threatened to withhold US defence if they didn't.</p><p>“Trump wants to move towards a much, much more instrumental & crudely material, transactional politics."</p><p>~Richard Seymour</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/richard_seymour" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/6/25/ric</span><span class="invisible">hard_seymour</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EuroPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuroPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DefenceSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefenceSpending</span></a> .</p>