Apex Nihon

This my #skyline #RB, I love her. 僕の #rb26, #R33, #GTR,が大好きだ。

@kunoichi_jp_ Games and Anime. I learned to appreciate everything else on your list once I lived there. ゲームとアニメ理由を選んだ。実際に日本に住んで、君のリストにある他のものもすべて好きになったです。

To everyone who loves Japan: What made you interested in this country first? Anime? Food? History? Travel? Games? Culture? I’d love to hear your Japan story.

@JohnnyRychous Hope you have a great day.

LEVEL UP 🎂 🎈 Thank you everyone for sharing in this life journey with me. I may be getting older, but I’m more refined than ever. Despite this, I’m just a boy with big dreams of success, a grateful heart and I’m still a hopeless romantic after all these years. From my heart, a big thank you from me to you 🙏

Leaving Rome today, hanging out at a lounge before my flight & Willem Dafoe just walks in & has a seat.今日ローマを出発するんだけど、フライト前にラウンジでくつろいでいたら、ウィレム・デフォーがふらっと入ってきて席に着いたんだ。🤩

The #GTR made some friends today. 今日、俺の車に新しい友達ができた. #gtr買えなかったいい訳

@moonchild23580 Hideo #Kojima, the GOAT of course. #小島 さんが好きだ. @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN @Kojima_Hideo

gun to your head name a Japanese person.

I traveled to Dontonburi, Osaka #Japan & added to my #Traveler #Blogs. You might recongize if from #YakuzaLikeADragon. 道頓 堀を訪れ, #旅行者 #ブログ に追加しました. 『#龍が如く』をご覧になった方なら、見覚えがあるかもしれません。🇯🇵 apexnihon.com/blog/travel/ja…

Name a video game that you've easily put 1,000 hours into Gifs only

@lady_valor_07 Tipping culture in America is out of control. I'm not paying someone a tip that exceeds my own hourly wage.

@ArdentSkeptic @Microinteracti1 What branch did you serve in?

This “assessment” is totally non-sensical. If a modern carrier is “a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast”, then why didn’t Iran take one of the carriers out to demonstrate such power?? BTW, we have pre-positioned assets all over the world….munitions, ships, tanks, soldiers, etc. And many of those locations are far closer to the mid-east AOR than any European logistics waypoint or storage facility. You’ve proven that you know nothing about military logistics…just a lot of guessing on your part. Our B-2 bombers can take off from Whiteman AFB, fly west to conduct a mission in Iran, and then continue west around the world….landing at Whiteman again. No problem. Our ships and submarines can fire land attack cruise missiles from hundreds of miles away…with pinpoint accuracy. And they can be replenished without even returning to port. All you’re describing is the very definition of what “power projection” is…the ability to support military operations far from home. And despite your “sky is falling” click-bait narrative, the US is superior to any other country in that regard. Furthermore, the dependency on the European segment…of that aforementioned support infrastructure…has really been driven by the NATO alliance. Keep in mind, the US wasn’t asking NATO countries to get involved in the Iran war…only to allow us access to the bases that we already built and/or maintain. Just the troops alone, in a single country like Germany, provide $2B - $3B into their economy…and that doesn’t include the funds necessary to pay local salaries, maintenance and upkeep, capital expenses, or US contributions to NATO itself. The process will now be underway to seek new host countries…and what’s wrong with that? I think the “rot” you speak of is fully settling into your own brain. I see no hint of any military experience, nor any deep thinking, in your melodramatic soliloquy. You can put the fire out in your hair now….

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen. American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint. The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed. The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second. So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse. Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands. MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed. And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with. Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, please follow Gandalv on Substack: @gandalv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@gandalv

@tagreene3 @Microinteracti1 There is no possible way to hit Iran without overflying other countries' airspace. Sir, please look at a map.

@Microinteracti1 You jackass, it's Europe who is burning down their own kitchen. We can overfly Europe, not easy, but they have forced us to do it with Iran.

@ShaneFromUSA @Microinteracti1 @DonLynnMcCorkl1 Facts

@Microinteracti1 @DonLynnMcCorkl1 We need the bases & we need our allies. Just as the CEO of a company is only as good as the board which supports him we as a superpower are only as good as the allies which support us. This is something that trump is absolutely blind to & his ego prevents him from comprehending.

@Microinteracti1 Great post. America's greatest strength comes from our ability to project power across the globe. Without these bases & the landing/overflight clearances that come with them, we are isolated. Anyone who disagrees, is a clown in understanding our full defense logistics system.

Ran into a picture online describing my second fav. #Japanese word: 口寂しい(くちさびしい).

@kingsofjdm Going to have to go with the Nismo V Spec. 最高だ。

Pick the best Front end for the GTR 😈🔥

I visited the Snow Monkey Park in #Nagano, #Japan & added to my #Traveler #Blogs. Perfect trip for a afternoon hanging out in the outdoors. #長野 の地獄谷サルの森を訪れ、#旅行ブログに投稿しました。屋外で過ごす、最高の午後でした。🇯🇵apexnihon.com/blog/travel/ja…

@anaconda1818 @DragonBall43ver Oh snap, of course! もちろんよ。

The green gang, who’s missing?

@DragonBall43ver Come on....

My son just finished creating his first #Minecraft film! The music is epic for the fight scenes. 息子が初めて #マインクラフト のミニシリーズを投稿しました。戦闘シーンのBGMが素晴らしいと思います. youtu.be/-y4jBGwu8Ok?si…

@dunkurtin @ParkHillsPam @Megatron_ron Some one knows history 👏, all except the US not being integral to the outcome of WW2. The British & Canadians couldn't have pulled off Normandy alone. Especially the entire campaign in North Africa? Getting off track, 🇫🇷🤝🇺🇸 both countries exist today because of each other.

@ParkHillsPam @Megatron_ron The US wouldn't exist without france, who they then betrayed by claiming their agreement was with the prior king only. Meanwhile, the US was late to both Ww and Ww2, not integral to the outcome of either.

BREAKING: 🇫🇷🇺🇸 France has officially withdrawn all its gold reserves from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Macron silently sold 129 tons of French gold stored in New York and bought an equivalent amount of gold in Europe. France is preparing for the end of the petrodollar.

cnn.com/2026/04/05/wor… #USAF Fighter pilot rescued in #IranWar‌ 🙏🪽 PJs or Special Forces, who ever you are... I thank you 🫡. 米軍戦闘機パイロットが救出されました. PJか特殊部隊か、誰であれ…感謝します。