Evan Cull 💚🟣

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” - George Bernard Shaw

@EU_Diplomacy or you can just look up brilliant pebbles from the 80's under reagan.

@EvanCull Look, I'll change my mind about you not speculating if you show me the evidence that proves what the administrations strategy, if any, was. Until then, I'll consider it speculation.

Denmark prepared for a possible U.S. attack: Flew blood supplies to Greenland and planned to blow up runways Key sources in Denmark and Europe are now revealing for the first time what happened during the most critical days, when Donald Trump threatened to take Greenland “the hard way.” When Danish soldiers were rapidly deployed to Greenland in January this year, they brought explosives with them. The plan was to destroy runways in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq to prevent American military aircraft from landing troops on the island, should the U.S. president ultimately decide to seize Greenland by force. They also transported blood supplies from Danish blood banks so wounded personnel could be treated in case of combat. This is reported by DR, which over the past year has spoken with central sources in the Danish government, top military officers, and high-ranking officials and intelligence sources in Denmark, France, and Germany. All sources have played—and continue to play—key roles in the international crisis triggered by the United States’ demand for control over Greenland. Together, the sources describe an unprecedented year marked by sleepless nights. None of them had concrete intelligence of specific American attack plans against Greenland. Still, many feared in January that the historically important ally, the United States, could attack at any moment. At the same time, Denmark reached out to its European allies, leading to closer cooperation. “With the Greenland crisis, Europe realized once and for all that we must be able to handle our own security,” said a French senior official involved in the intense period. A rapid-response force consisting of Danish, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish soldiers was first deployed to Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq. Shortly after, a main force followed, including: -Soldiers from the Danish Dragoon Regiment in Holstebro -Elite troops from the Jaeger Corps -French alpine troops trained for cold and mountainous warfare At the same time, Danish fighter jets and a French naval vessel were sent to the North Atlantic. According to several sources, the goal of having multinational troops on the ground was to ensure that any U.S. attempt to take Greenland would require a large-scale hostile action—thereby deterring such an attempt. “We have not been in such a situation since April 1940,” said a Danish defense source, referring to the days before Denmark’s occupation during World War II. Unlike in 1940, when Denmark chose not to resist militarily, the government and defense leadership this time decided—after extensive confidential discussions—to take the opposite approach: If the U.S. attempted an attack, Danish forces would be armed and ready to fight. Danish F-35 fighter jets deployed north were also fully armed. All this despite the understanding that Denmark could not realistically withstand a U.S. military attack. “The cost for the U.S. had to be raised. The U.S. would have to carry out a hostile act to take Greenland,” said a senior Danish defense source. Source: DR

@EU_Diplomacy I do know that, Greenland has strategic importance to both Europe and the US space programmes and nuclear defence.

@EvanCull You don't know that, we can only speculate. But the US is results driven and if you look at the conversation over there it's how his behaviour is often assessed: "well look at the result, they're spending more"

@EU_Diplomacy No, it's not.

@EvanCull I always thought it was a bluff personally. A stupid gambit that nonetheless worked to instil a fear of existential risk into Europe - rearm because the US may not protect you.

@TimWhite777 @nexta_tv clearly not met the military industrial complex, the more the merrier, they ain't paying for it.

@nexta_tv I seriously doubt this. The United States has been intercepting ballistic missiles with Patriot systems for over 35 years.

⚠️Ukrainian instructors sent to assist in the Middle East are shocked by how the US intercepts targets, according to The Times According to Ukrainian officers and instructors from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who were involved in the defense of the Gulf countries, "the US launched as many as 8 Patriot missiles at a single enemy target, each costing over 3 million dollars," and also: "I don't understand what they were doing, what they were watching for four years while we’ve been at war."

@ChrisGPackham @Helen_Whately they've lost just ignore them.

On BBC Question Time, @Helen_Whately just said ‘we can’t afford Net Zero’ . She is a human health hazard and grossly misinformed or lying . Time to call out the lunatics leading us to hell . No facts , no truth , no integrity - no hope.

@IPPR just ignore them, they've already lost the argument.

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Wish I knew who to credit. Sent via a friend. Thank you anon whoever you are. Nailed it.

@MelJStride bring property prices down...

Labour hiked taxes by £66 billion - and still can't stop BORROWING. February borrowing alone hit £14.3 billion this year - the highest February monthly borrowing since the pandemic. Debt interest alone now tops £100 billion. That's double the defence budget. We're piling debt onto the next generation because Starmer and Reeves refuse to control spending. Rachel Reeves has mismanaged the economy and made irresponsible choices. She's scrapped spending cuts. Hammered businesses. Punished wealth creators. And what's the result? Debt levels we haven’t seen since the 1960s. Enough is enough. Britain must live within its means.

@adam_makula @Reuters it's the middle east, when is it ever not...

@Reuters Is this the real reason of this war?

Netanyahu wants oil, gas to flow through Israel post-Iran war reut.rs/4sODnPY reut.rs/4sODnPY

@andreas_krieg they can do all the trash talking in the world, we're the buyer and we have the choice of where our energy comes from, we choose whether it is soaked in blood or not.

@andreas_krieg I think the biggest misunderstanding between the neocons, stateside and levant side is that the consumer calls the shots.

Israel is offering a new vision for an Israel-centric regional order with Israel as the hub and others in the region as co-dependent vassal states Bibi doesn't want to understand that this is not a binary choice between one pariah or the other

@DropSiteNews I can finish it, how about we go talk to putin.

💢 Netanyahu calls to bypass Hormuz with pipelines west from Saudi Arabia to Israel ICC-fugitive Israeli PM PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the world must move beyond reliance on vulnerable maritime “choke points” like the Strait of Hormuz, which remains effectively shut. 🔸He said a product of the war on Iran could be: ➤ new oil and gas routes that bypass both Hormuz and the Red Sea entirely ➤ specifically pipelines running west across the Arabian Peninsula to Israeli ports ➤ Said such projects would “do away with the choke points forever” and stabilize global energy flows ➤ Tied the plan to his long-standing “land bridge” vision linking Asia to Europe through Israel Netanyahu also claimed the war with Iran could end “a lot faster than people think,” and that these projects could follow quickly.

this was always what the fuckers were playing at by the way.

😂or we can just go speak to Putin and tell him to pull out of Ukraine.

@TomLondon6 he was chosen by washington and nobody listens to him.

The NATO Chief does not care that the US/Israel attack on Iran is blatantly ILLEGAL Who are the “good guys” here?

@lrozen presumably they think that is somehow enough to secure Irans side of the strait?

@lrozen i'm not sure what that is meant to achieve, iran is 90 million people.

FT: “Regional officials say there is no movement on diplomatic efforts to end the war from either side. And Israel’s killing on Tuesday of Ali Larijani, a conservative but pragmatic regime veteran, is expected to further set back hopes of a resumption of talks. He would have been integral to any diplomatic process, a regional diplomat said. The diplomat said he expected Iran would stop its attacks on US targets if Trump withdrew from the conflict, enabling Tehran to claim it had forced America’s retreat.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…

@JAL1988196662 @OlympusMons99 @clashreport how so?

@OlympusMons99 @clashreport Trump didn't do anything, it was Europeans who destroyed the alliance by being fucking parasites.

Tucker Carlson on Europe: If Europe is not an ally of the United States, then China rules the world. We should treat Europe as an ally. Europe needs to be an ally.

“This is not Grand Theft Auto. This is real people’s real lives” The Green Party’s Caroline Lucas says US President Donald Trump has “no kind of plan” for the US-Israel war with Iran, and the White House is treating it like a “big game” #bbcqt