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@Microinteracti1 Obviously we don’t have any of these friendly air space or bases with the allies, so what’s the point. Everyone for themselves from now on. Good luck Europe.

American superpower status was never about aircraft carriers or nuclear warheads. It was about relationships and geography. No nation is a superpower alone. The Soviet Union was a superpower because it controlled half of Europe, its resources, its armies, its airspace. The moment those countries walked out the door, Russia became what it always was underneath. Just Russia. Large, ugly, and alone. America built something different. Thirty-one of the world’s wealthiest democracies, voluntarily, collectively amplifying one nation’s reach into every corner of the planet. That is what made America a superpower. Not the bombs. The allies. Without them you have no forward bases, no friendly airspace, no intelligence network, no collective weight. Today a country with a 17-hour flight to the nearest problem. Which is, with the greatest respect, basically another Brazil. Europe was the rocket fuel that powered two superpowers. First pumped into the Soviet machine, then into the American one. And now, Europe is keeping that fuel for itself. Russia collapsed and the Sovjet Union collapsed. Russia lost its empire when the satellites left. America is being and idiot. Same result. Just with worse timing. Meanwhile Europe is becoming something it has not been in a very long time. The point. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@NajamAli2020 That’s more of the same policies that failed in the past 47 years. Not gonna happen this time. Trump is not that kind of politician. He does care what the world or anyone thinks of him. The sooner the Iranians understand that, the better for everyone

My read on the Iran war endgame: The final settlement will formalize what the battlefield already decided. Iran gets permanent leverage over the Strait of Hormuz. In return: uranium enrichment stops, missiles capped at the current 2,000km range, and sanctions lifted immediately. The non-aggression pact gets guaranteed by China or the UN and not Washington. There is no other realistic outcome. Every escalation from here further weakens the U.S. position, not Iran’s. Tehran has already won the strategic war, even as it loses the military one.

@sigmabybu @SenseiRonined @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs 😂 well, if the shoe fits.

@x_sitcom @SenseiRonined @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs Wow the American cia agent calling me nazi…. Fuck… I’m so happy

The greatest military in history has: Fought Korea to a draw. Lost to Vietnamese farmers. Spent 20 years in Afghanistan before being expelled by men in sandals. Created ISIS in Iraq. And is currently stuck in week five of Iran with a closed strait and no exit strategy. Greatest ever. No question.

@sigmabybu @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs Yep, that same Berlin who wouldn’t have fallen if the USA stayed home. That Berlin, moron

@x_sitcom @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs Berlin? You mean the same Berlin that fell by the red army on the 6 of April in 1945? That Berlin?

@sigmabybu @SenseiRonined @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs Easy there, fucking Nazi.

@x_sitcom @SenseiRonined @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs Be gratefull? God …. You should starve to death in a reeducation camp

@9cynthiam Yeah ok. You call propaganda what goes against your narrative. 😂😂

Exhibit A for why Americans are never out in the streets in large numbers: propaganda

@sigmabybu @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs I am. I left that shit home years ago for a better life in the USA. Still, most of my family lives in Europe.

@x_sitcom @DataDjango @VeryBrexitProbs “I’m European”

I don’t know. China’s image is not the best. Never has been. The perception is that China is a ruthless communist country, who puts out cheap, unreliable product and steals other countries intellectual property to make cheap knock off. Like the picture you show, a cheap knock off of New York. It’s gonna be hard for China to walk away from that global perception.

Your kids are going to grow up in a world where China will be their model society in terms of technology, commerce, culture, and even governance. They will idolize and idealize the place as a fantasy wonderland and society. They will want to study there, visit there, and even move there(sadly for them, most aren't getting in.) You see how crazy the Japan simping is right now? 40 years past Japan's economic peak? The China simping will be 10X that level by 2040. Because China has won the end of history.

@LostM5141 @StockMuti @Stingbase Fuck all the way off. We’re gonna wreck your economy

@StockMuti @Stingbase Shouldn't have threatening to invade Greenland. And disrespect our fallen heroes that where fighting your war after 9/11. So get fucked and get some disease our something that will remove you completely. Diabetes pigs

Americans seem to dislike europeans, but europeans dislike only Trump.

@Misesean1 @StockMuti @Stingbase It seems nothing else has worked in the last 47 years

@StockMuti @Stingbase Yes, that sucks; and bombing them back to the stone age is going to make things better, is it?

@MartaMoren60369 @AmandaStewartAZ @AmbJohnBolton International Laws is not a real thing. It’s like saying Care Bears laws

@perryspeaks3 @AmandaStewartAZ @AmbJohnBolton Yes It is illegal. Because US army is attacking civil infrastructures and killing civilians, which is a WAR CRIME by international laws.

Trump clearly erred by not consulting allies before launching joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran. Political support from our key partners wouldn’t have compromised the military operation, no matter what the Isolationists say. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/0…

@BSoares1983 @KateWilton1 Na, Stupid is being Iranian and believing you’re the good guy. After 47 years of terrorism around the world.

@x_sitcom @KateWilton1 Are you really this stupid?

I cannot understand how the decent majority in the US (if they exist, who knows anymore) aren’t on the streets. How can they sleep at night knowing they unleashed this lunatic on the world?

@10jmcda @KateWilton1 No, the Iranian Regime has done much worst than all of that for the last 47 years

@x_sitcom @KateWilton1 Did the Iranian regime start an unjustified war? Did the Iranian regime invade a country & steal their oil? Is the Iranian regime systematically starving a country by blockading oil & aid? Who needs to stay out of other nations business?

@ShipHappens1965 @greendragonhq It’s going great. We’ve basically won the war next to zero casualties in just a few weeks. Frankly, this couldn’t have gone any better for us.

@x_sitcom @greendragonhq Look how it’s going for us 🤦🏻

The entire Trump/Iran war comes down to Trump’s inability to negotiate. A problem that has plagued both of his terms. He simply cannot close deals like Biden and Obama. He can’t get the Save Act passed. He can’t reform health insurance. He can’t negotiate tariffs or trade with foreign nations. He can’t negotiate with Iran. He gets pushed around by Israel.

@LaVozDeEuropa @Josevizner And in that case, what happens to Ukraine? Europe just gives it to a Russia?

No,si la OTAN se retira, Europa y Rusia firmarian un pacto de amistad a las 24 horas y formarían el mayor bloque político económico mundial, y eso es algo que los Estados Unidos no pueden permitir. Ese es el objetivo oculto de la OTAN: meter toda la cizaña posible para impedir una alianza entre Europa y Rusia.

Ojo con que la solución de EEUU con la OTAN no sea, en lugar de abandonarla, retirar sus 100.000 soldados y llevarlos a otros lugares. Europa se vería obligada a reclutar a miles de soldados para defender el Continente. Cuando acabe la guerra en Irán llega el gran divorcio geopolítico de nuestras vidas. Y esto va a ser muy doloroso para Europa.

@Dekeita @johnkonrad Well, after the last few weeks. What do you think? Can the USA count on using Greenland if needed. Or is it subject to some kind of bureaucratic decision that could go either way based on Hod knows what.

@johnkonrad So what would you do about Greenland now John? I'm waiting for a Trump tweet like "I'm beginning to think Nato ally reassurances that we can use our bases in Greenland isn't enough"

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@itzgreatken @johnkonrad Soft power is a term created by people who don’t have any power but want to feel important

@johnkonrad Interesting take. But isn’t part of civilization also cooperation? Europe’s cultural achievements aren’t just decoration …they’ve inspired innovation, diplomacy, and soft power. Maybe civilization isn’t only about energy independence and military might.

@GillanGeorge @johnkonrad @RobManess Matter of opinion

@johnkonrad @RobManess The one sentence per paragraph format is heavily overused. 🙂

@guyontheearth @SKMorefield Yeah, go to Iran and talk morality with the Mullahs. See what happens

@SKMorefield This is a simple morality test that many are failing publicly.

So much has been said about this insanity already, but it really comes down to the Golden Rule: Would YOU want a foreign nation to destroy the utility grid that makes every aspect of modern life possible for yourself and your loved ones? Think about it: power and running water gone overnight. Back to the Stone Age, as some might say. If that happened, how many people would die? What would life be like in the aftermath? There is a reason why this is considered by any decent person to be a war crime, and if you are OK with it being done to someone else you’re no Christian at all, or at least you’re a pathetic excuse for one.