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@Microinteracti1 @KurtSchlichter Iran war going sideways? not sure what media you listen to but this is the most 1 sided war in recent memory. Requesting to fly allies airspace/use its airbases is hardly a request for boots on the ground. Europes global influence has waned unfortunately and it’s hitting a nerve

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America. The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation. The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.” Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.

@Panserhjerte @esrtweet @Ewingwr @samuha Trumps view of Europe being a one sided partner and leech has been going on since 2016. it’s just shocking how dumb European leaders can truly be. Not allowing the use of air space which seemed trivial move has done more damage US public opinion of Europe that they can imagine

@esrtweet @Ewingwr @samuha Isn't it tiresome to keep having to invent scenarios where he is not a total buffoon? or do you really believe he plays 8D chess?

Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this country to be fought in somebody else's country, as far away from me as possible with a nice big ocean in the way. Also relevant: I have a history of having lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. I was at one time bilingual in English and Spanish, and have been passably fluent in Italian and French as well. I could probably still find my way around London and Rome and central Paris reasonably well. So if you're tempted to tell yourselves that I'm some kind of parochial American hick, abandon that hope. All that was set-up. So that, when I tell you that almost the entirety of the US electorate, not just Trump supporters, is increasingly fed up with your shit, take me seriously. We've been cleaning up your messes and keeping the sea lanes open since 1917. And that was for you, not us - we, being very close to resource self-sufficient, don't need that investment so much. We've spent enormous amounts of blood and treasure on keeping you safe. We risked nuclear hellfire on our own cities for nearly 50 years to keep Soviet tanks from rolling through the Fulda Gap. Even since the Cold War ended, we've subsidized your socialist-playpen welfare states and disastrous immigration policies by taking the need to maintain militaries more effective than a sack of wet farts off the table. Now we've come looking for help keeping a bunch of rabid Islamic fanatics from getting nuclear weapons that are a clear and present danger to all of you even more than they are to us, and what do we hear? "Waah! It's another Republican president we don't like, just like the last half dozen of them! So we're going to sulk in a corner, except when we're biting at your ankles with crap like airspace restrictions." No. No, we're not going to take this anymore. It's not just conservatives who have had enough, it's moderates and people who used to be strong supporters of liberal internationalism. Our citizen's willingness to pay higher taxes to protect you was upward-bounded by your gratitude. Now that we know your gratitude has effectively gone to zero, so does our willingness. Don't expect this to change if the Democrats take power here. They are much less liberal-internationalist than Republicans now. While they might make mouth noises that soothe you, their overriding concern is the gaping, insatiable maw of their income transfer programs. They'll sacrifice subsidizing Europe's playpen socialism to feed their domestic version in a heartbeat. And there is no longer any significant Democratic constituency to argue against that. In truth, three decades after the Cold War ended there is no American constituency at all for the massive subsidies you get. It frankly surprises me they lasted this long, that we were this patient with your cowardice and your bitchy whining. This moment has been a long time coming. It's not Donald Trump sinking the transatlantic alliance, it is absolutely you.

@ShowMeLaTweet @Wyi_Gaius @TrueNashWay @markusdeme23 It’s also two years old so it’s likely more then 22 trillion by now

@ShowMeLaTweet @Wyi_Gaius @TrueNashWay @markusdeme23 “Over the past 75 years, the U.S. contributed $21.9 trillion to NATO's defense budget, according to its yearly Defense Expenditure of NATO Countries report, significantly more than its 31 peers. “Newsweek 4/4/2024 Though quick google search shows it sourced by Reuters, cbs etc.

The US asked France for help to open the strait and France said "no". The UAE asked for a resolution to open the strait with force and France said "no". Now, France has made a deal with Iran and French ships are passing through the strait freely. France logic: why fight when you can just make a deal and pass without stress?? Be wise like France!

@Wyi_Gaius @TrueNashWay @markusdeme23 21.9 trillion spent past 70 years on nato funding by the US gov in support of European defense

@TrueNashWay @markusdeme23 Answer my question. Stop throwing insults, you're not a kid.

@ItsMark_CZ @ATTYBYCHOICE @Axphyl95 @MsMelChen I won’t argue Iraq 2003 invasion wasn’t helpful but Iraq was formed in 1920 by the Uk of 3 separate ottoman provinces. It was run by a Sunni Muslim dictatorship till 2003 even tho the country was only 15% Sunni and 85% Shiite and saddam opposition. US worsened a European creation

@Falkey120 @ATTYBYCHOICE @Axphyl95 @MsMelChen US interventions-like invading Iraq in 2003 made things worse by creating vacuums that empowered extremists. US does more harm than good.

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

@RasmusJarlov Europes share of the glob gdp as dropped from 25 percent 20 years ago to 14% today. With limited natural resources and reliance for energy from Asia and America I understand your European but I think your idea of the EUs influence is conflated. More likely US, China and India.

In the future, there will be three major powers in the world: China, USA, EU. Neutral countries will move as much as possible towards the EU as their preferred partner because both China and the USA treat other countries disrespectfully and try to extort them. Europe will be the only great power and market to turn to if you want to have an equal and fair relationship. Canada is already moving towards Europe for this exact reason. India and Japan will also form a closer relationship with Europe. This is what soft power means. MAGA replies in the comment section will prove the point.

@ItsMark_CZ @ATTYBYCHOICE @Axphyl95 @MsMelChen To be fair, the Middle East’s problems have stemmed from artificial countries and borders whose full basis for existence is the European colonial system from when Europe was at the apex of their power and divided the map at their will.

@ATTYBYCHOICE @Axphyl95 @MsMelChen The Middle East has been destabilized thanks to the US invading numerous countries. Same thing is happening now again in Iran. Oil prices are going up, once again thanks to the US. Whatever US does, it affects the whole world not just the USA. Like think a little.

@RasmusJarlov @Alfonzo10432880 Hispanics generally assimilate have assimilated to America culture due to their motivations for economic prosperity. War torn Muslim immigrants such as Europe as seen had tendency to recreate the culture in their preference

@RasmusJarlov @Alfonzo10432880 Frankly you sound like a skewed CNN opinion with a foreign perspective on America’s immigration issues, it’s strictly an open border issue in America. Hell Trump got 46% of Hispanic vote last year on the border platform.

As a European, I am not afraid that the USA will leave NATO. We already know that they do not have good intentions to Europe and that we, therefore, have to build our defence to be able to fight without the Americans. We are well on our way and it will happen a lot faster if the USA leaves NATO officially. Russia is too weak and small to be a long term threat to Europe. They simple can not match what we can produce. As long as we keep Ukraine from falling, Russia is also not a threat to us in the short term. So if the USA leaves NATO, it is simple for us: Keep Ukraine from falling at all costs and build up European defence and weapon production as fast as humanly possible. We can and we will do that and Europe will be absolutely fine and safe.

@arlenparsa built one of the largest regional plumbing companies in the region that employees 120 plus employers with 30 plus investment properties and a net worth of 66 million all on work and sacrifice. As someone with a masters degree,arguing a B of A degree is more impressive is a joke

AOC graduated with honors from Boston University with double degrees in Economics and International Relations. Markwayne was the only Senator without even a bachelor’s degree. Hope that helps.

@KinderheimRune Also doesn’t help the heavy socialist/communist lean a lot of Europe has taken in only 20 years, so guess your all feeling extra close with the Russian/China markets and not free market capitalism

@Falkey120 You should try to think really hard why there’s such a difference.

I know for a fact that this will get ridiculed in MAGA world but we are dead serious about Greenland. We are not interested in losing Greenland. It's a red line.

@KinderheimRune While I hate seeing this crack with europe and was just vacationing in France less then a month ago so. Europe projects hard power it doesn’t actually have. Greenland is an attempt to fake this. Half their energy reliance in 2021 came from Russia likely playing a part

@KinderheimRune Granted Denmark is nato and Ukraine is not but man not a great look by the European powers when Russia is pounding europes front door for 3 years but an island of 50k that’s geographically closer to America would cause Western Europe to shed blood first then against Russia

@Falkey120 You have no idea how triggering it is to talk about this crisis with Americans. No one is arguing that Denmark is a military superpower but that’s completely irrelevant to this situation. We don’t live in a vacuum.

@KinderheimRune I can imagine it being stressful especially with how unpredictable Trump can be, though when the German pres argues they don’t have the military capabilities to assist with opening the strait of Hormuz, it adds to trumps argument of the artic not being well defended

@Connor_J_Hughes @ZackBlatt Would jets consider kicking tires on a jj McCarthy trade since he seems available and younger then Simpson

A new #JFD coming your way today at 2 p.m. Send over some questions ... NOW on what you'd like @ZackBlatt and I to address post-free agency, pre-NFL draft, and right as this roster & Aaron Glenn/Darren Mougey's plan is taking shape

@krassenstein Why are you cheerleadering Iran, it’s pretty off putting

MASSIVE BREAKING: Iran has struck the oil tanker 'Skylight' near the Strait of Hormuz. Four sailors were injured. The attack took place 5 miles north of Khasab Port in Oman. The attack occurred after the ship ignored Iran’s order not to enter the straight. Oil prices are about to skyrocket when the market opens.

@LePapillonBlu2 Wont question nbc news stupidity but was clearly just pointing out that US soil was a red line and obviously Us bases are considered US soil so they literally just pointing out his prior statement was a complete lie. That wasn’t that hard to understand if your not bias

NBC news anchors asked Iran why it’s justifying attacks on American bases in the region. “Um, because you’re bombing us from those bases? What do you want me to say? ”

@thewizeblkman @GeraldoRivera This was already confirmed literally in real time with video evidence to be an Iran misfire. Stop the misinformation

@GeraldoRivera Did we really just kill 63 elementary school kids. Please tell me we did not

Trump is unleashed. In a blink he has destroyed the leadership of Iran. The headquarters of the Ayatollah are ash. Our half century old humiliation 1979-81 America Held Hostage is avenged.