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Prefer Wikipedia over this fascist spreader of lies & conspiracies. Born: ๐ธ๐ช Lived: ๐ฉ๐ช Living: ๐ฉ๐ฐ โ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐Retired IT guy ๐


The Art of Being Alone There is a particular kind of idiot who mistakes cruelty for strength and confusion for disruption. Donald Trump is that idiot, and right now he is learning the most expensive lesson in the history of American foreign policy. For the first time ever, every single G7 nation, every NATO ally, and every meaningful partner the United States has built relationships with over 80 years has looked at America going to war and said, collectively: not our problem. Germany out. Italy out. Spain out. France out. Norway out. The Netherlands out. Denmark out. Poland out. Portugal out. France out. Greece out. The British mumbling something non-committal while backing slowly toward the door. Japan out. Australia out. Canada out. A entire continent, from the Atlantic to the Balkans, has looked at this war and decided it would absolutely not. That is not a coalition gap. That is a civilisational rejection. A competent leader would have had every single one of them. A competent leader would have spent months building the coalition, trading favours, making the calls, sitting across the table from people he actually respected. Reagan did it. Bush Sr. did it so brilliantly in 1991 that he assembled 35 nations against Saddam and made it look effortless. Even Bush Jr., catastrophically wrong about Iraq, at least dragged a coalition behind him. Trump cannot fill a room he did not already own. This is the man whose defining political talent is division. He does not build coalitions. He builds resentment. He does not make allies. He makes people who are counting the days until they can stop pretending. Every European foreign minister who has sat across a table from this administration has left the room feeling vaguely insulted and absolutely certain they will not be doing that again. And now, at the moment that actually matters, the bill has arrived. America is going into Iran alone, with Israel and Iran knows it. The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. Oil is somewhere between very expensive and apocalyptically expensive. The US Navy is about to spend months being shot at by a country of 90 million people with Russian missile technology, drone swarms and nothing left to lose. The cost, in blood and money, will be staggering. And there is nobody coming to help carry it. Meanwhile, something quietly devastating is happening in parallel. Germany is repatriating its gold from American vaults. France too. Central banks across Europe are looking at their reserves sitting in New York and thinking: we should probably have those closer to home. That is a verdict. That is the financial world saying, in the most polite possible way, that it no longer trusts who is running the place. And then there are the photographs nobody wants to be in. Diplomats, foreign ministers, and elected leaders across the democratic world are now actively avoiding being seen next to anyone connected to this administration. Out of pure self-preservation. They know the calculation. Their grandchildren will Google those images. Historians will write about those handshakes. Nobody who has a legacy to protect wants to be the smiling face standing next to this chapter of history. Trump spent years telling his base that allies were parasites, that coalitions were for losers, that real strength meant going it alone. He got his wish. The whole world watched, considered the offer, and said sod off!. Now he gets to find out what alone actually costs. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1




๐จBREAKING: 100,000 U.S. troops and $60 billion a year defending Europe โ and zero help on Hormuz. Time to bring them home. No more free rides.

The Art of Being Alone There is a particular kind of idiot who mistakes cruelty for strength and confusion for disruption. Donald Trump is that idiot, and right now he is learning the most expensive lesson in the history of American foreign policy. For the first time ever, every single G7 nation, every NATO ally, and every meaningful partner the United States has built relationships with over 80 years has looked at America going to war and said, collectively: not our problem. Germany out. Italy out. Spain out. France out. Norway out. The Netherlands out. Denmark out. Poland out. Portugal out. France out. Greece out. The British mumbling something non-committal while backing slowly toward the door. Japan out. Australia out. Canada out. A entire continent, from the Atlantic to the Balkans, has looked at this war and decided it would absolutely not. That is not a coalition gap. That is a civilisational rejection. A competent leader would have had every single one of them. A competent leader would have spent months building the coalition, trading favours, making the calls, sitting across the table from people he actually respected. Reagan did it. Bush Sr. did it so brilliantly in 1991 that he assembled 35 nations against Saddam and made it look effortless. Even Bush Jr., catastrophically wrong about Iraq, at least dragged a coalition behind him. Trump cannot fill a room he did not already own. This is the man whose defining political talent is division. He does not build coalitions. He builds resentment. He does not make allies. He makes people who are counting the days until they can stop pretending. Every European foreign minister who has sat across a table from this administration has left the room feeling vaguely insulted and absolutely certain they will not be doing that again. And now, at the moment that actually matters, the bill has arrived. America is going into Iran alone, with Israel and Iran knows it. The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. Oil is somewhere between very expensive and apocalyptically expensive. The US Navy is about to spend months being shot at by a country of 90 million people with Russian missile technology, drone swarms and nothing left to lose. The cost, in blood and money, will be staggering. And there is nobody coming to help carry it. Meanwhile, something quietly devastating is happening in parallel. Germany is repatriating its gold from American vaults. France too. Central banks across Europe are looking at their reserves sitting in New York and thinking: we should probably have those closer to home. That is a verdict. That is the financial world saying, in the most polite possible way, that it no longer trusts who is running the place. And then there are the photographs nobody wants to be in. Diplomats, foreign ministers, and elected leaders across the democratic world are now actively avoiding being seen next to anyone connected to this administration. Out of pure self-preservation. They know the calculation. Their grandchildren will Google those images. Historians will write about those handshakes. Nobody who has a legacy to protect wants to be the smiling face standing next to this chapter of history. Trump spent years telling his base that allies were parasites, that coalitions were for losers, that real strength meant going it alone. He got his wish. The whole world watched, considered the offer, and said sod off!. Now he gets to find out what alone actually costs. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Do Euros understand that they only get along because we hugged them tight and made them kiss? If America withdraws from Europe, Germany and Russia will be partitioning Poland within a decade, Greece and Turkey will race for nukes, and the Balkans will spontaneously combust.

๐จ IT'S OFFICIAL: Spain BANNED the US Air Force refueling tankers involved in the Iran war from flying through Spain airspace Spain is a NATO "ally" What a freaking disgrace. Pull out of NATO!

Trump: I'm polling higher than anybody has ever polled in Venezuela. So after I'm finished with this, I can go to Venezuela. I will quickly learn Spanish. It won't take too long. I'm good at language, and I will go to Venezuela. I'm going to run for president.


The mind-blowing tech behind microchip manufacturing. Lasers fire 50,000 times per second at tin droplets moving 100 m/s, creating extreme ultraviolet light plasma โ and thatโs just one step inside ASMLโs chip-making machine.






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๐บ๐ธ MASSIVE Anti-Trump Protests Across America for No Kings Day


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