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Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to.
They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures.
That is not how it works.
Article 5 is a mutual defense clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When America was attacked. Not Europe. America.
Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In America’s war. On America’s behalf.
Now imagine they hadn’t.
Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, Danish, Polish. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are American names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home.
Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over 100 billion dollars on a war that started on American soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost.
And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, American supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover.
Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have had an American name.
Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers.
If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name. Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine.
In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation.
If you are a MAGA supporter travelling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa.
You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1




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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV kicks the MAGA hornet's nest on Holy Thursday by condemning the "imperialist occupation" a day after Trump delivered a deranged speech in which he refused to end his Iran War.
This pope simply will not back down...
"The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked," Leo wrote on X. "The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday"
The choice of words is as always from this incredibly thoughtfully and morally grounded leader, far from accidental. On one level, Leo is referring to the Roman imperialist presence in Judea during the time of Christ. It was that same imperialist force that ultimately nailed him to the cross.
On another level, he's clearly referring to the conflict in Iran which he has repeatedly condemned while calling for a ceasefire. At the same time, Israel is expanding into Lebanon, seizing territory and bombing civilians with American bombs. The entire Middle East is burning thanks to Trump and Netanyahu.
Leo is a godsend in these dark times. This is what really religious leadership looks like: espousing eternal truths that flow from one's faith while simultaneously applying those convictions to the contemporary political landscape. While Pope Leo is calling for compassion and peace, the Evangelical leaders that support Trump are comparing him to Jesus as he slaughters women and children overseas.
We know whose side we're on.
Please ❤️ and share to thank Pope Leo

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James Carville gloats that Democrats will go after President Trump and his family if they regain control of Congress after the midterms:
"They're going to start going after you… Then they're going to go after your stupid jacka-- kids and their spouses and all the other bulls--- that you see, and they're going to investigate the s--- out of you...??👇

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Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance. Not a peep from Sheryl Sandberg.
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This is Henry Walter Wooten, who is serving 35 years in Texas for possessing 100g of weed, but this "pastor" pedophile who abused a 12-year-old girl was released after serving 6 months in Texas. This is what institutional racism is.

New York Post@nypost
Disgraced Texas megachurch pastor free after 6 months in jail for sexually abusing 12-year-old girl: 'I am deeply sorry' trib.al/DrrUE0U
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