Not a formal deal but it's pretty widely known that if either wanted to join we would join together as we've had a long history of cooperation during the Cold War.

Trump can do whatever he and the project 2025 Christian fanatics wants to do, it's unlikely to stop in the mid terms or even the next presidential election. Now it's looking like a ground invasion of Iran. They thought they could do another Venezuela, they're getting a Vietnam in the age of drones instead.

I am swedish and well aware of our alcoholic history. And yes we are emulating the American war on drugs because the only solutions we try are more police. Keeping most drugs illegal is what fuels the gangs, yet politicians think people should just stop doing drugs to solve the problem. It's laughable.

American "interventions" in the middle east for the last 70 years have caused these migrations of people. They keep doing it to different counties so they're not safe if they just go to a neighbor, might as well go to Europe. The current Iranian regime is in power largely because the American and British got their government overthrown in the 50s.