I wonder if this is this part of that "making America great again" slogan Drumpf and his MAGA groupies are incessantly mouthing?
Link: EU Staff Is Now Using Burner Phones to Evade Trump | The New Republic
"The European Commission is issuing burner phones to officials traveling to the United States amid fears of espionage in Trump’s America.
It’s the kind of security measure typically saved for trips to China or the Ukraine, where the fear of IT surveillance is high. But three European Commissioners will test out burner phones and basic laptops at International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington next week, sources told the Financial Times.
The move from the European Commission, the primary executive arm of the European Union, marks a new era of American-European relations, which have all but dissipated since Donald Trump took office in January. Last month, he slapped Europe with 20 percent tariffs, which he later reduced to 10 percent for 90 days. He has falsely claimed the EU was formed solely to “create a unified force against” the United States, he abandoned Ukraine in the face of Russia, and he threatened to withdraw American security guarantees to the continent altogether—single-handedly dismantling an alliance that has shaped the global order since Word War II, and simultaneously embracing Vladimir Putin’s alliance.
“The transatlantic alliance is over,” an EU official told the Financial Times."
"The transatlantic alliance is over."
Well isn't that just swell. The nations who the United States helped AND who helped the United States defeat the world tyranny posed by Hitler's Nazis and their axis alliance in 1945 are telling us the 80+ year democracy friendship is over.
Our soon to be former allied countries are essentially telling any Americans who are open-minded enough to listen that they have zero trust in the individual currently in charge of the government of the United States of America.
Anyone believing that this is a good thing is more than just a little fucked in their head and needs to seriously wise up.
---TFG
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