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Committed voters. Occasional snark.🤔 Scientist, rationalist, humanist, stoic. Published author, but here to defend democracy - not sell books.

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@CliffordDMay @MsMelChen Here’s three: 1. NATO is defensive, and not required to back offensive wars without alliance consensus. 2. US bases in Europe serve American interests as much as European ones. 3. Europeans face far higher risks in the form of migration, terror, energy risks. Prudence is logical.
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Clifford D. May
Clifford D. May@CliffordDMay·
I'm pro-NATO. But I can't think of a single argument to refute what @MsMelChen says here. Not one. If others can, please weigh in.
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen

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.

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Leavitt: "You always want to be the most well-read person in the room, and I try to be every day. But Donald Trump always is."
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Yiota P Kiriakes@hypertension57·
@maddenifico You think loser People actually like John Fetterman cuz he stands up and he's his own man he doesn't have to follow the pack of Marxist communists
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Bill Madden
Bill Madden@maddenifico·
John Fetterman's days are numbered, thankfully.
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Acyn
Acyn@Acyn·
Gowdy: She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. She never visited the island.
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BLOCL 🇺🇸@bloc1264·
@ArtCandee If only! I wish that could happen! Red states don’t want to end up like CA, MN, NY or IL. They are crime ridden, highly taxed shitholes.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤@ArtCandee·
The big goal of House Rep. Ralph Norman in the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial debate last night is to keep liberals out of the state: "My biggest fear, if we have lackluster, feckless leadership, we're gonna end up like California which is the dregs of society now...We've gotta restrict South Carolina, not let everybody in." 🤣
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Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom·
Reports now that Hegseth oversold the war to Trump and underestimated Iran's willingness to fight back. It's almost as if he's unqualified for his job. Too bad the Senate didn't have confirmation hearings; those would have proven his manifest unsuitability to lead the Pentagon.
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Drunker than ever before. More drunk than anyone has ever seen.
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@Acyn “Kennedy” is a former MTV V-jay with no formal training, education, military service, or professional background in international geopolitics or military strategy.
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Acyn@Acyn·
Kennedy: If you don't think war is the answer, what is the answer? And that is something that they will not address out of cowardice and laziness.
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All of these “firings” are the clearest sign yet that Trump world thinks they could lose the Senate in November. They hope that they can get confirmations jammed in before the election.
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