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@EuropeanRetired

Prefer Wikipedia over this fascist spreader of lies & conspiracies. Born: 🇸🇪 Lived: 🇩🇪 Living: 🇩🇰 — 🏳️‍🌈Retired IT guy 💍

Gribskov, Danmark Katılım Ağustos 2022
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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.
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Uppity Seattleite aka Dr. Feelgood
Eurotrash parasite is big madsies and thinks this justifies American troops protecting the borders of Eurpoean countries. It doesn't.
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Gandalv@Microinteracti1

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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@RJMax72 @Alpha9Mindset @JoshHall2024 Where in the constitution does it say, create concentration camps? And who elected the kleptocrats kushner/dumbkopf? And where does it say, invade venezuela, steal their oil and deposit the proceeds on trumps account in uae? Just got me started.
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ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until

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RJMax72
RJMax72@RJMax72·
@EuropeanRetired @Alpha9Mindset @JoshHall2024 He is following our Constitutional Laws when it comes to illegal immigrants, especially terrorists, criminals, drug cartels, human/child trafficking. Also he is following our Constitutional Laws on voting. He has followed more of our laws than Obama or Biden or Hillary
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Joshua Hall
Joshua Hall@JoshHall2024·
🚨BREAKING: 🚨 DISGRACED former President Barack Hussein Obama has reportedly established a "back channel" and a shadow government to communicate directly with world leaders whose countries are a part of NATO, anticipating a possible Trump administration withdrawal from the alliance. Obama is said to be reassuring his fellow leftist leaders and our so-called allies by forming a "contingency plan" in the event that President Trump does in fact terminate our NATO membership. With Obama recently purchasing a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MANSION in The UK and transferring a large chunk of his assets to the country, it appears that he may be orchestrating a GLOBALIST COUP against President Trump and engaging in a CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY to undermine the foreign policy of our duly-elected President. If we had a dollar for every time that Barack Obama has committed TREASON, we'd be as rich as Elon Musk. This man is the worst thing that ever happened to America? ARREST OBAMA NOW! 🇺🇸💪🏻
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
The United Arab Emirates are a better American ally than the United Kingdom. Think about that for a moment.
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Better Scotusblog
Better Scotusblog@BetterScotus·
@EuropeanRetired @CynicalPublius Please do list the 13 bases "bombed to oblivion" US is shooting down Shaed drones with helicopter gunships shooting their rattling guns at the drones, costs a hell of a lot less than $50k / shootdown
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@BetterScotus @AlexBeaurepaire @A_A_RonFTW @johnkonrad @french_report78 Maybe a little self reflection, who am i kidding, impossible for pompous a-holes. Remember 🇺🇸 threatening invading greenland? U think an ally behaves like that?
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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Better Scotusblog
Better Scotusblog@BetterScotus·
@AlexBeaurepaire @A_A_RonFTW @johnkonrad @french_report78 I do love the way the week child projects his worthlessness on the rest of us We aren't "Crying" about you scumbags refusing to let our planes use your airspace, we're pointing out you owe us, and you will regret forgetting it Crying is what impotent bitches do That's you
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@scottymanchest2 @AlexBeaurepaire @johnkonrad @french_report78 13 🇺🇸 bases was smattered by cheap shaed drones. U used 8 patriot missiles (8 * $4M) against one shaed ($50K) Gulf states make protection deal w ukraine (u know, the guy w/o suit and no cards) In 1y 🇺🇸 become the 💩 🤡 country of the 🌎 No one supports usa any more!
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝗲 NATO's common budget is calculated using an agreed formula based on national income. Every member pays according to what their economy can bear. That is the stated principle of the alliance.

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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius@sthrnsamsquatch·
@EuropeanRetired @Beniwinn @johnkonrad Shattered self esteem is a wild thing to accuse another country of when the most compelling thing to come out of Sweden in the last thousand years was a king interesting enough for Sabaton to write an album about.
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