davidpgbarber

I thought for a long time about whether I should say anything, but it is time to appeal to reason and truth. We are friends. And on this app, misinformation gets pushed in waves. MAGA hears a line from the top dictator, repeats it, and suddenly ignorance gets dressed up as analysis. The fact is that the tweet below is right in a major way. Europe has not been freeloading off the United States. Europe and Canada spent a combined $486 billion on defence in 2024 alone. European NATO states now buy a huge share of their major weapons from the U.S. In 2020 to 2024, 64% of their major arms imports came from the United States. For the 2021 to 2025 period, Europe accounted for 38% of total U.S. arms exports, the largest regional share. NATO allies also represented around $20 billion in U.S. foreign military sales in fiscal 2022 and $24 billion in fiscal 2023. That is not charity from Washington, oh boy no. That is a revenue stream for Washington. The U.S. presence in Europe is not some selfless protective act. It is also about projection, logistics, reach, and cost savings. In early 2025, the U.S. had nearly 84,000 servicemembers in Europe, and NATO common funding continues to pay for infrastructure upgrades at bases used by U.S. forces there. NATO has even committed $385 million for upgrades tied to AND FOR U.S. special weapons storage and related facilities in Europe. Those bases put American forces closer to the regions where Washington wants to operate, and they reduce the strategic cost of doing so. And the most important point is this: if the U.S. loses Europe as a customer, staging ground, and political-military platform, it loses tens of billions of dollars in arms business, plus strategic positioning it has benefited from for decades. The only time NATO Article 5 has ever been invoked was after the 11 September attacks on the United States. So the myth that America endlessly subsidises everyone else while getting nothing back is propaganda. In reality, Europe has been helping finance the system, buying the weapons, hosting the bases, and sustaining the architecture from which the U.S. itself profits. I still believe a united Western world is worth striving for. I am not falling for the division pushed by this cult, and neither should you. Trumpism will hopefully not be around for long. What is important to note, though, is that Europe has at most benefited from NATO indirectly, while the United States has benefited directly over and over again. So do not let MAGA propaganda lull you into believing otherwise. Peace.

Just a reminder: in 1982, when Great Britain was attacked by Argentina, starting the Falklands War, the United States did not come to their aid because the Falklands are not in the North Atlantic and the British did not bitch about it. In 1956, when the French and British attacked Egypt, causing the Suez Crisis, despite the fact that France and Great Britain are in NATO, the United States not only refused to assist, but went to the United Nations to condemn them for attacking Egypt. In 2019, when Turkey decided to attack Syria, the Trump administration had the Pentagon send out an official notice that they did not support the campaign and would not send troops. So kindly shut the fuck up, everyone in the White House.

@RobSchneider I officially Recognize that you are a complete talentless douche

I officially RECOGNIZE the NEW INDEPENDENT NATION of ALBERTA and its separation from the People’s Republic Of Canada and the socialist morons in Ottawa.

@Acyn without france ther is no usa you ignorant prosimian

Watters: They have a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, it's just hanging around the mediterranean. It could be in the gulf in just a few days. We saved the French twice from the Germans. They can't do mop up duty? Daddy has to get the kids to move out. They can't live in the basement forever. But if they do, they have to pay rent.

38 days in and the United States Commander in Beef has already pulled off the most complete victory in modern history. Let’s recap the wins. 🏆 • Replaced Khamenei (86) with Khamenei (56) • Reclaimed exactly 0kg of uranium • Reopened a strait that was already open - now with a $2M toll per ship (up from $0) • Proved F-15s and F-35s can in fact be downed by guys who “belong to the Stone Age” • Got US bases destroyed across four or five countries (I've lost count) • Shattered allied trust that the US would actually show up if things got spicy • Put Iranians back in the streets (this time for their government) • Installed Pakistan as the region’s voice of reason. Pakistan. • Openly admitted arming the Kurds to stir trouble in Iran. The Kurds did nothing and kept the weapons. • Bragged about the Crown Prince of the Gulf’s biggest petro-monarchy “kissing his ass” • Raised the cost of living for all Americans even more thanks to skyrocketing gas prices. He really did all that to the Middle Eas for the low, low price of a few thousand civilian lives, tens of billions in equipment, and every ally not named Israel. If that’s not the Art of the Deal, I genuinely don’t know what you people expected. And again, we had money to do all that, but not to provide healthcare to our own citizens. Truly a victory that could only be won by someone capable of bankrupting a casino.

Yahudi İzleyici: (ağlayarak) Konuşmanız sırasında Yahudilere yönelik birçok kez Nazi benzetmesi yaptınız. Bu son derece incitici. Bu, Nazi rejimi altında gerçekten acı çekmiş olan insanlar için çok aşağılayıcı. Norman Finkelstein cevap veriyor: — Bu tavra artık saygı duymuyorum. Gerçekten duymuyorum. Bu timsah gözyaşlarından hoşlanmıyorum ve onlara saygı da duymuyorum. (Dinleyicilerden alkışlar ve yuhalamalar yükselir) — Yabancı bir dinleyici kitlesi önünde "Holokost kartını" oynamaktan hoşlanmıyorum ama şu an kendimi buna mecbur hissediyorum. Rahmetli babam Auschwitz'deydi. Rahmetli annem Majdanek toplama kampındaydı. Ailemin her iki taraftan da tüm üyeleri katledildi. Annem ve babam Varşova Gettosu Ayaklanması'na katıldılar. — İşte tam da annem ve babamın bana ve iki kardeşime öğrettikleri dersler nedeniyle, İsrail'in Filistinlilere karşı işlediği suçlar karşısında sessiz kalmayacağım! Onların acılarını ve ölümlerini kullanarak; İsrail'in her gün Filistinlilere karşı işlediği işkence, vahşet ve ev yıkma suçlarını meşru göstermeye çalışmaktan daha aşağılık bir şey düşünemiyorum! — Bu yüzden artık bu gözyaşlarıyla sindirilmeyi veya baskılanmayı reddediyorum. Eğer zerre vicdanın olsaydı, burada döktüğün o gözyaşlarını Filistinliler için döküyor olurdun!

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Israel ruthlessly carpet bombed Lebanon today, killing at least 180 people and injuring more than 800. How does the BBC report it? “Israel says it hit more than 100 command centres and military sites in 10 minutes…” This is how war crimes are laundered.

@Julius_Kim @SGSafran i do not beleive it you seem fairly ignorant like most Americans on TV

@SGSafran psst..Steve.. I was using tongue and cheek… 🙄

I’m beginning to understand how Trump went bankrupt so many times.

@Julius_Kim beginning ? wow are you slow

@chm985 @Albertaishome51 @ExnerPirot kind of shows you did great in your mind only

@Albertaishome51 @ExnerPirot I did great in history. What would you like to talk about.

Canada is the third largest oil exporter in the world. Insulating our domestic oil prices from global prices would mean exporting less oil! That would be a scandalous act in a global energy crisis. Canada has no strategic reserves to help ease this crisis, what we do have is the ability to keep putting our barrels into global markets and getting them to places where the scarcity is greatest = price is highest.

@Albertaishome51 @chm985 @ExnerPirot as you should you were a net drain on Ontarion for 100 years

@chm985 @ExnerPirot Go read some history!

@Albertaishome51 @ExnerPirot Ontario supported you for 100 years. now you have something you think you are special. it will not last

@ExnerPirot So Alberta is plus 80 % but you thought that was not worth mentioning ! Liberals are all the same!

@Albertaishome51 @ExnerPirot the first oil wells were in Ontario but ignorance is your strong suit do not let that stop you

@ExnerPirot I think you mean Alberta!

@anthonyzenkus @Olivia_Reingold @TheFP no you arent you havnt stopped it

@Olivia_Reingold @TheFP We do. Bankrolling Israel's genocidal wars allows them to spend money on things like healthcare for their citizens. Hasan Piker absolutely right. And Americans are sick of it.

Hasan Piker just claimed that the U.S. pays for Israelis to have free healthcare on stage at Abdul El-Sayed rally. Just closed out with “free Palestine.” Reporting for @TheFP

@a57701287 @MrJoKeR604 go back

@MrJoKeR604 Say goodbye to democracy in Canada. As someone whose family left a dictatorship hellhole, believe me when I tell you when your votes don't matter you're too late

Pierre Poilievre lost the election and his seat, that should've been the end of his 22 year political career. Instead he clung to power, refused to give up his taxpayer funded life, and has lost 4 MPs in the last year. He will go down as one of the worst political leaders.

@rjthom91 @makerz_king @MHTruthUltra Israel not jews there are respectable Jews they just are not in Israel

@makerz_king @MHTruthUltra The jews have only managed to produce all of this through US taxpayer funding. FYI

Iran would be a far better ally for the United States than Israel. Iran produces oil, technology and food. Israel produces nothing.

@makerz_king @MHTruthUltra regardless Israel is a murderous regime and that is never condoned

Israel 'produces nothing'? Tell that to Intel, whose most advanced processors are designed in Israel. Tell that to Mobileye (autonomous driving tech in millions of cars). Tell that to Check Point, Waze, Teva Pharma, and the cybersecurity tools protecting U.S. banks and the Pentagon. Israel leads the world in patents per capita, drip irrigation that feeds millions, and medical breakthroughs. Iran produces oil, yes — and also Hezbollah rockets, Houthis attacking shipping, Hamas tunnels, and weekly 'Death to America' rallies. One is an actual high-tech ally that shares intel and innovation. The other funds proxies that kill Americans. Pick your 'better ally' with facts, not slogans.

@MHTruthUltra o come on Israel produces hatred and terrorism

@Exothaumic @Microinteracti1 @StateDept no you just shoot each other

@davidpgbarber @Microinteracti1 @StateDept It’s a Canadian thing, we Americans don’t sign up for something so silly.

PRESS SEC: It’s quite sad that NATO turned their backs on the American people over the last six weeks when it’s the American people who have been funding their defense. President Trump looks forward to having a very frank and candid conversation with Secretary Rutte.