@cdrsalamander Where it would work, the Dutch way is THE way. Many of the rail trail developments could really benefit from their experience too.
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Charles Short
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Charles Short
@CharlesShort
Pre-maga Republican since 1978. Defense, Foreign Policy, and Former Soviet Area interests. The best days for the US and our allies are still ahead of us.
West Lafayette IN USA Beigetreten Nisan 2010
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No kidding. Try that in any part of the USA south of the Mason-Dixon line from June through September.
You will arrive anywhere you are heading not just tired, but soaking wet and smelly.
In FL, every other day you will also be caught in a torrential downpour unlike anything you see in Europe.
Mark Tempest@lawofsea
There are a few issues with bicycling for normal people in the US compared to this idyllic Dutch scene. We actually have hills and mountains. And hot, humid weather. We are not the same. But you do you.
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We don’t need a new ballroom.
Security worked as designed and the suspects was taken into custody alive. DJTs immediate shilling for his pet project was unbecoming.
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@DarthPutinKGB Heroes of Socialist Labor, all!
Leave it to the idiots on the night shift to ruin it for everyone!
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OTD in 1986 absolutely nothing happened in Chernobyl apart from a rapid, unplanned disassembly which resulted in the plant achieving its 10 year energy target in 2 nanoseconds according to the plan.
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Is the other 20% the American made ejection port cover on the other side?
John Bourassa 🇨🇦🇪🇺@JohnBouras3230
Our new C7-C8 rifles for the Canadian forces are designed by Canadians, made by Canadians, the materials are 80% Canadian. 🇨🇦🙌
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Russia is learning that duct tape and bailing wire is not a good strategice plan for global expansion and influence.
Pyotr Kurzin@PKurzin
Holy shit. Putin’s entire African campaign is collapsing. Russia’s Arica Corps - forces that rebranded and replaced the Wagner Group just retreated from a key base. They even ditched their Malian allies.
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@P_Kallioniemi I have to say, lest people forget, what a complete hard case Andropov really was. He set the stage for Putin to copy a lot of his approach and correct his mistakes.
A purely evil man.
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These are Soviet and Russian leaders and their achievements since 1917.
What are the chances that, without decolonization and major reforms, the country will have a democratic and benevolent leader after Putin?
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@DrNeilStone The staff had a blowout grab-fest too. But asking journalists to not take advantage of free alcohol? Hahahahha!!
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I mean I come from Glasgow where this is considered fair play
Matt Wallace@MattWallace888
The President almost just got assassinated and members of the media are using the opportunity to steal bottles of wine. You don’t hate them enough!
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I think that renouncing political violence is a good idea. Perhaps if J6 hadn’t happened, there would be a lot fewer people thinking that it’s permissible.
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I am absolutely appalled that such a close ally (the United States) should support Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands. And to do this as an act of spite because we refused to be sucked into a Middle East conflict with a plan that has now come unstuck. It is immature diplomacy from a country I love and respect. It will take years to recover from this. Come on Donald you are better than this.
But let me add one more thing: Javier Milei, if you attack the Falklands, we will come down there again and kick you out. It will be ugly and you will lose. You will need glass bottom boats to inspect your shiny new F-16s and the only long-term Argentine inhabitants of the Falklands will be members of your armed forces buried under its soil.
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@piersmorgan @joni_askola Mr. Brand’s Christianity is entirely performative and revolves around the promotion of his book. Frankly, he belongs in prison and not on any television program.
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I knew my Russell Brand interview would be an interesting experience when he insisted on saying a prayer for both of us before we started.
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Donald Trump has no use for the constitution, which means he has no use for the United States unless it serves his purposes and whims. At his core, he has no use for rules, norms, or laws.
All Americans work to defend the constitution and our fellow citizens. Period.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier
This unhinged rant against the Constitution and against the very Americans whom the president is sworn to defend is an embarrassment to our country. Americans with ancestry in China and India are as much Americans as Irish and Italian Americans.
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@RpsAgainstTrump Another fraud in a Milky Way of public frauds. He belongs in prison, not on a best seller list.
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@johnpavlovitz @Paula_White And the propaganda arm of Putin’s regime thinks it’s beneficial to show what a bunch of loons advise DJT, as it crashes US credibility around the world.
Writ larger, it also continues the crash of perceived moral authority of the Reform Church. That’s the real disaster.
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As a longtime pastor, this makes me want to throw up.
@Paula_White is a lying, grifting predator who has spent her life stealing people's money to live in opulence, and is now a cheerleader for a vile serial rapist.
This is why people are leaving the Church.
RT@RT_com
Trump's personal spiritual advisor Paula White GETS EXCITED talking about the DEVIL — STARTS CRAWLING ON STAGE as THOUSANDS WATCH 'BABY IF I GOTTA GET DOWN AND CRAWL'
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@nicholadrummond It’s not a weapon, but the mix of them that wins.
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NATO armies are finally investing in multi-layered counter-UAS and air defence systems. Smart sights attached to small arms with frangible ammunition types are a good low-cost option, but cannons with proximity airburst ammunition, interceptor drones, high-energy lasers, and low cost-missiles all have their place.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Ukrainian AAA gunner shooting down a Russian Shahed attack drone at near point blank range with his M2 Browning .50 HMG yesterday.
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@ThomasTheLib @JayinKyiv MR was also correct in the sense that Russia was far more likely to use the remains of its military to achieve its goals, at a time when everyone thought war was a ridiculous idea.
He would never be President, but he sounded the alarm that many refused to hear.
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In 2012, Mitt Romney called Russia our number one geopolitical foe.
He was right and Democrats stupidly laughed him off.
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And if Stalin can be okay, it reduces Putin’s criminality to an asterisk.
Free nations should work overtime to disabuse Russia of any effort to whitewash the murderous corruption of their society.
Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич)@polidemitolog
The fact that Stalin has been completely rehabilitated in Russia and that crimes of the Soviet era are again being denied isn't tied to communist ideology at all, it's about the cult of the state and authority, as well as the narrative of Russia as a liberator.
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@RobMKendall His larger crime is his gauche willingness to overshadow his boss at every turn.
Not that it’s hard to do, but…
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Beckwith does whatever he wants and lies all the time because he never gets held to account. He’s a complete piece of garbage who hides behind his profession as a pastor to manipulate just enough loyalists to buy into his professional victimhood and defend the repeatedly indefensible things he does.
Niki Kelly@nkellyIN
Even @KHBlakeslee couldn't find the post when she looked. It was clearly removed. He has done this repeatedly in the past.
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Charles Short retweetet
Inviting Vladimir Putin to the G20 would signal to the world that aggression works, and that appeasement is back on the table. America is better than this.
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@adamwren @SenToddYoung Lots of room for shipyards next to steel mills in the Region. It’s a natural.
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Someone who could help the president with shipbuilding: @SenToddYoung, who has been championing it for coming up on years now.
Dasha Burns@DashaBurns
NEW: Trump and Hegseth decided to push Navy Secretary John Phelan out during a meeting Monday night. “The president is really passionate about shipbuilding, and it hasn’t been happening at the rate he wants to see,” a senior administration official told me. Phelan didn’t want to listen to Hegseth and showed up in the West Wing lobby to speak with Trump, the senior administration official said. “Finally, the president brought him in for two minutes and reiterated that he had to go.” My latest w/ @JackDetsch, @LeoShane and @connorobrienNH: politico.com/news/2026/04/2…
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Europe needs to do more of this - spend more on defence and spend less with the US. Cut Europe out/off defence dependency on the U.S. And spell it out that this is because of Daddy.
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
For nearly four decades, NATO’s eyes in the sky have been American. The Boeing E-3 Sentry, a militarized 707 with a rotating radar dish on top, has been the alliance’s airborne early warning backbone since the 1980s. Washington built it. Washington sold it. Washington serviced it. That era ended this week. NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency has selected the Swedish Saab GlobalEye to replace all 14 of the alliance’s aging E-3 aircraft, in a deal worth around 5 billion euros. The contract goes to Sweden and Canada. Not a single American company involved. The decision follows the US cancelling its own E-7 Wedgetail procurement in June 2025, shifting instead toward satellite surveillance under the Golden Dome concept. When Washington pulled out, it assumed NATO would wait. NATO didn’t wait. The GlobalEye uses a fixed AESA radar rather than the E-3’s rotating dish, enabling faster target detection across air, sea, and land at ranges exceeding 550 kilometres, with endurance of over 13 hours per sortie. It is smaller, cheaper to operate, and requires fewer crew. Unit cost sits at roughly 550 million euros, against significantly higher estimates for the E-7. France had already ordered two. Poland and Germany were circling. Now NATO has formalised it for the whole alliance. Trump spent 14 months telling Europe to spend more on defence and rely less on America. Europe listened. He just didn’t expect them to mean it quite so literally. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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