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@Erasmus77
Pantheist. Interests: Classics/Orphic religion plus books/cats/computers. Documentation/computers/networks. Yonkers raised.
Let me be precise about what is happening here. Trump keeps saying โNATO wasnโt there when we needed them.โ He says it like a grievance. He will keep saying it. Expect it at every rally between now and 2028. Understand what he is actually doing. He is not venting. He is building a case. Because he knows what Russia is planning for the Baltic states, and he is pre-loading the public argument for why Article 5 does not apply when that moment arrives. โWe asked, they refused.โ That is the exit ramp. Simple. Memorable. Wrong, but effective. Article 5 covers armed attacks against members in Europe or North America. It was never designed to cover offensive wars the United States chooses to launch in the Middle East. Article 6 makes this explicit. The Americans insisted on that language in 1949 precisely so they could not be dragged into Europeโs colonial wars. Trump is now furious at a clause his predecessors wrote. ๏ฟผ He called allies cowards. He told the United Kingdom to โbuild up some delayed courage.โ He threatened France after Paris refused airspace for weapons bound for Israel. ๏ฟผ None of this is anger. It is choreography. NATO allies had no legal or treaty obligation to join this war. The United States was not the victim of an attack. It was the instigator. ๏ฟผ What Trump is calling betrayal is allies reading the actual document. Now to the harder question: can NATO hold without Washington? Yes. European members have every incentive to maintain the alliance, even in radically different form. Germanyโs chief of defence has already ordered the military to be fully equipped by 2029, when Russian forces may have reconstituted sufficiently to test the eastern flank.๏ฟผ That clock is running regardless of what happens in Washington. European leaders have been forced to confront the need for a security architecture that can stand without the American pillar. ๏ฟผThat conversation was theoretical eighteen months ago. Iran made it operational. The alliance survived the Suez crisis, when the United States humiliated Britain and France. It will survive this. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
President Zelensky: The United States produces about 60, maybe 65, anti-ballistic missiles per month. That is nothing. On the first day of the Iran war, the equivalent of two years of that production was used in 24 hours. We need our European independent strong system, and we will build it.
Have to love a yacht sailing through the middle of the Strait of Hormuz.
Never forget that this is not just Putin. This is not just now. This is not just fascism. No matter their leader, what century they are in, what ideology they adopt, this is only actual russian culture. Just this. This is who russia is.
Far-left pro-Putin groups assaulted the President of +Europa, Matteo Hallissey, with pepper spray to tear away his Ukrainian flag during Italyโs Liberation Day. Ukraine represents resistance against fascism, the very principle behind the Liberation Day. Pro-Putin is pro-fascism
Breaking WaPo: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation's nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were just terminated from their positions by Trump.โฉโฉThe National Science Board was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation.
Donald Trump just posted this on Truth Social. No words. 25th Amendment now!!
Odesa after russian attack last night, that killed a married couple, and injured 15 peopleโผ๏ธ
๐ฏ "Letโs just move on" has done incredible damage in societies. Russia refusing to seek accountability for Soviet crimes is one. The Democrats acting like MAGA was no longer a threat after 2020 is another. Magyar understands that justice is not the same as vengeance.
Ukraine confirms its cruise missiles smashed a key Russian drone factory in Taganrog, wrecking buildings at a major production site. The facility is a core part of Moscowโs UAV program, linked to Molniya and Orion drones. kyivpost.com/post/74673
