Edouard Aronson

The latest independent poll shows the Hungarian opposition leading Orbán’s party by 23 points. Hungarian elections are Sunday. median.hu/2026/03/27/a-k…

This fever dream from @VeryBrexitProbs MUST be a comedy skit because there's zero basis in reality! 🤣 Trump’s generals “know better,” huh? Here’s a point-by-point reality check dissecting the corpse we call NATO: 1. Over 50 bases, 84,000 troops, Ramstein this, Lakenheath that, “America’s front door to the world!” Without NATO we just... build bases where people actually like us. Or use aircraft carriers, our floating leviathans of freedom and death. Cry harder, Ramstein real estate agents!! 2. “The geography it can never replace” Europe: “We’re your unsinkable aircraft carrier, darling!” Yeah, one that demands we defend it while we’re already on the other side of two oceans with the world’s biggest navy. Newsflash: we invented projection power. We have Diego Garcia, Guam, Japan, South Korea, and a fleet that makes your “continent” look like a really expensive cul-de-sac. Being an “island superpower” isn’t a flaw, it’s called strategic distance from your drama. I thought European universities made you people smarter than this... awkward... 3. “Its intelligence network” Five Eyes, GCHQ, MI6, “Lose NATO and the pipeline closes!” Buddy, Five Eyes was around before NATO and will be around after. The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand aren’t suddenly going to stop sharing because we stopped paying their bar bill. The rest of Europe’s “intelligence” is mostly reading our Twitter and leaking it to the Guardian. We’ll survive. Pinky swear! 4. “Two allied nuclear powers” UK and France have nukes... that we literally maintain the delivery systems for. Outside NATO those warheads are still pointed at the same bad guys. Plus, France will nuke anything that looks at it funny anyway, alliance or not. “Two fewer nuclear powers in your corner”? Mate, they were never in our corner, they were renting space and complaining about the Wi-Fi. 5. “Its arms export market” Europe buys our F35s and Patriots because we subsidize their entire defense budget. If we leave, they’ll either (a) actually spend their own money and buy more, or (b) go bankrupt trying to build knockoffs with their 35hr work weeks and 8week vacations. Either way, Lockheed Martin ard Boeing will be fine; the real winners are American taxpayers who stop funding both sides of the transaction. Free market, baby. Look it up. 😉 6. “The dollar’s global dominance” NATO is what keeps everyone trading in dollars? Sure, Jan. Or maybe it’s the fact that we have the biggest economy, strongest military, and everyone else’s currency is basically Monopoly money. Europe collapsing into a multipolar mess would actually make the dollar stronger as the only adult in the room. The shift to “alternative currencies” is already happening because of BRICS, not because we stopped babysitting Belgium. 7. “A trillion-dollar insurance policy” Article 5: 31 countries legally obligated to fight for us! Invoked exactly once (after 9/11) and they showed up with some troops while we did the heavy lifting in Afghanistan. Adorable. 🙄Meanwhile we’ve spent trillions defending them from threats they helped create with their energy policy. That’s not insurance, that’s a protection racket where the customer never pays the premium and still expects the full payout. Time to cancel the policy and keep the deductible. 8. “Its seat at the head of the table” Without NATO, “America is just another big country with a big army stranded between two oceans.” Oh no, whatever will we do without being the unpaid bouncer for a club full of freeloaders who call us “Yanks” behind our backs? China and Russia would “celebrate for a decade”? Good. Let them celebrate while we stop bleeding cash and start making actual bilateral deals with countries that pull their weight. Being the “leader of the free world” is cute until the free world treats you like an ATM with aircraft carriers. Conclusion: Without NATO, America doesn’t “lose an empire.” It loses the world’s most expensive group chat, the one where Europe complains about the bill and then demands we defend them from the consequences of their own terrible decisions. (Pst. Net Zero) Pack your bags, free-loaders. The adults are leaving the table. Europe can finally grow up - or not. Either way, our wallet thanks us, and we are just fine letting China and Russia have you! In the immortal words of The Hunger Games, "May the odds be ever in your favor", you limey freeloading, fucks!