Elroy
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Elroy
@ElroyvdW
mr. / geneeskunde / 🎷& 🎸/ boardgamegeek / opwarmen en koken is niet hetzelfde.
Grunn, Nederland Katılım Ekim 2011
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@MvE68too @3lGr13g0 @Boreout Ik heb geen D66 gestemd afgelopen verkiezingen en ben er gelukkig geen lid van, waarom je dat aanneemt zegt mij weer genoeg. Die paar jaar extra geldt maar voor een kleine groep ten koste van een grotere groep waarbij meer QALY’s behaalt. Je kunt niet regeren vanuit je onderbuik
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@ACTBrigitte Yes and get the f out of here with your US bases. No logical hubs anymore to the Middle East. US turns from a major power to a regional power. You need Europe. We don’t need you. Bye 👋🏻
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@Cwhitt75 @Microinteracti1 The damage is done. You won’t realise it yet, and maybe you never will. But America just turned itself as a major power to a regional power. Thats’s negative for you as Europe. Thanks to a narcistic, geopolitical idiot.
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@Microinteracti1 And his supporters, including myself, absolutely love it!!!
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The President of the United States woke up this morning and posted a 150-word personal attack on Bruce Springsteen.
Not on Iran. Not on the tariffs crashing global markets. Not on the recession warnings. Bruce Springsteen.
There is a standard psychological tool called the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. It has 20 items scored on a scale from 0 to 40. The cutoff for a diagnosis of psychopathy is 30.  The average person scores around 4. The average maximum security prisoner scores 22.  A panel of eminent psychiatrists assessed Trump before his 2024 sentencing in New York. He scored 36 out of 40. 
The 25th Amendment exists precisely for this. Section 4 allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to carry out his duties.  It has never been used. In any normally functioning democracy, the bar would be far lower. Most leaders in that position resign themselves.
Instead, this one is on Truth Social at 7:58 AM calling a rock legend a dried-up prune.
America is fighting a war it cannot exit in Iran. Markets are in freefall. Allies are making alternative plans.
And the man with the nuclear codes is writing concert reviews.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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📢De teerling is geworpen! Binnenkort komt mijn eigen Geopolitical Risk platform online waar ik dagelijks geopolitieke analyses, en langetermijn forecasts zal delen over Eurazië waar nu, zoals altijd, van alles gaande is.
Mijn intentie is om mijn jarenlange ervaring in deze sector, ruime talen- en regiokennis in te zetten om vooral overheidsintellingen en bedrijven te helpen navigeren tegen het licht van de geopolitieke chaos in dit deel van de wereld.

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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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🚨 NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED NATO ACTUALLY IS RIGHT NOW.
In the last 72 hours, watch who walked away:
🇫🇷 France: Blocked US military overflight for weapons to Israel — FIRST TIME since war began Feb 28. Israel cut ALL defense procurement from France.
🇮🇹 Italy: Denied Sigonella air base landing to US bombers. Defense Minister said relations are "solid and loyal." DAYS after blocking US planes.
🇪🇸 Spain: Closed ENTIRE airspace to US operations. Blocked Naval Station Rota AND Morón Air Base. PM Sánchez called it "not NATO collective defense."
🇵🇱 Poland: Refused to redeploy Patriot batteries. US burned through 1,200+ interceptors in 16 days. Poland said no.
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Denied 2 US reconnaissance flights. Suspended $120,000,000 in weapons exports under "neutrality laws."
🇬🇧 UK: PM said "this is not our war." Trump told them to "build up some delayed courage."
🇩🇪 Germany: President Steinmeier called war "possibly illegal." WHILE hosting Ramstein — largest US base outside America.
That is: France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, UK, and Germany.
All in ONE week.
When this many allies abandon you at once, it's not a disagreement.
It's a collapse.
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BREAKING: A major sign of a potential U.S. ground invasion!
12 US A-10C Thunderbolt II ‘Warthogs’ just landed at RAF Lakenheath in the UK en route to the Middle East for Operation Epic Fury.
This is a major sign of potential ground invasion against Iran. The A-10 is built for close air support. Its 30mm cannon is intended to shred tanks/armor, and it’s known to protect ground troops with rockets, missiles & bombs.
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@TheHarrisSultan Lol, yeah if Trump wants the US to become a regional power instead of a major world power he should.
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@HenkenAngelika Ach ja “het Nederlands volk”. Ja, deze hebben gestemd en daar is een rechtmatige uitslag van. Jouw bubbel is niet “het volk”. Ik heb gestemd bij de verkiezingen als Nederlands staatsburger dus “het volk” heeft gesproken. Als je gezond verstand had, had je gezwegen.
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@SouteWally @MinPres Ga lekker janken in een hoekje kerel en zet Het dorp van Wim Sonneveld om je staande te houden in deze realiteit.
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Sorry, maar ben ik dan zó ver weg van de realiteit dat ik dit nog steeds een decadente en minderwaardige vertoning vind voor een @MinPres van een land als het onze?

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@Matt_Pinner You should ask yourself why you don’t get a decent salary from your boss
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Premier Jetten belde mij net.
Hij gaf aan het premierschap zwaar te hebben onderschat en het vertrouwen van zijn coalitiegenoten zwaar te hebben overschat. Hij had niet langer het vertrouwen in zijn eigen kabinet. Ik gaf aan zijn eerlijkheid te waarderen.
Omdat onze partijen evenveel zetels hadden behaald bij de verkiezingen, gaf de heer Jetten aan hij het premierschap aan mij te willen overdragen.
We gaan om 12.00 uur samen naar de Koning om de overdracht te formaliseren.
Morgen zal ik het staatsnoodrecht in laten gaan, de grenzen sluiten voor alle asielzoekers en voorbereidingen treffen voor een grote remigratie van Syriërs en anderen terug naar hun eigen thuisland. AZC’s kunnen sluiten, de dwangwet wordt ingetrokken, onze huizen worden weer van ons en van het bespaarde geld gaan we meteen de accijnzen op benzine en diesel verlagen.
#PVV
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@GrahamAllen You do know nato fought our wars last time. As a matter of fact nato has only ever fought our wars since its start in 1949. We never fought for another ally in nato. So maybe shut the fuck up and stop listening to a dementia ridden pedophile that’s has NEVER served. Dipshit.
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@DavidD_Chapman Won’t happen. And the geopolitical power of the US will be marginal without the us bases in Europe. But I agree, I hope the US will get the fuck out of Europe, close those bases. Good luck with your wannabe king, we will manage, we will survive without the US. The US is no friend
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Withdraw from NATO and withdraw all US troops from US bases in Europe and see how many days it takes Russia to conquer Europe.
Eli Afriat 🇮🇱@EliAfriatISR
🚨BREAKING: Italy joins Spain in banning US military planes from landing at base in Sicily en route to Middle East. -Reuters.
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