Ben Hodges

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Ben Hodges

Ben Hodges

@general_ben

Former CG USArmyEurope, loves the Army Team, FSU football and Atlanta Braves!

Katılım Ekim 2018
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Defence On The Brink
Defence On The Brink@DefenceBrink·
Why should Brits care about Ukraine? ⚠️More refugees pushed into Europe. ⚠️Higher food and energy prices. ⚠️Ukraine won't be the end. Next up, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania. We're in a war now because we didn't stop Putin back in 2014. h/t @general_ben
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Kate from Kharkiv
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate·
Host: Do you think that this issue of territory, Donbas region, is a solvable one? Ben Hodges: Yeah, Russia could leave and recognize this as Ukrainian sovereign territory.
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Phillips P. OBrien
Phillips P. OBrien@PhillipsPOBrien·
Once again--Trump is weakening Ukrainian air defense to help Putin kill Ukrainian civilians and damage Ukrainian infrastructure. How many times does this need to be said before people will get it.
Euromaidan Press@EuromaidanPress

Zelenskyy: US promised Europe licenses to produce Patriot missiles — then refused Germany now has no air defense missiles left to give Ukraine. Zelenskyy says it didn't have to be this way: "There were promises of licenses, but America ultimately did not go along with it" euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/18/was…

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BalticNews
BalticNews@BalticNewscom·
👉 While the simulation suggested that Berlin became politically constrained as Moscow created “facts on the ground,” Ben Hodges cautioned against reading wargame outcomes as forecasts. @general_ben balticnews.com/ben-hodges-sto…
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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦@ZarinaZabrisky·
🔴 “Russia cannot defeat Ukraine.” - General Ben Hodges @general_ben “After twelve years of war, they still only control about 20% of Ukraine…” “All they can do is keep killing innocent people.” More in my mini-interview from @MunSecConf
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Ben Hodges@general_ben·
So an immigrant…who helped us win our independence…who immediately freed the Slaves given to him at the end of the Revolution.
Ambasador Tom Rose@USAmbPoland

Happy 280th Birthday, Tadeusz Kościuszko — Polish by birth, American by choice, universal by principle. For Poles, Kościuszko is a symbol of national honor and the fight for independence. For Americans, he is a brilliant military engineer of the Revolutionary War who believed that liberty must mean liberty for all. Kościuszko fought tyranny wherever he found it, and bound our nations together through shared sacrifice and shared ideals. It is no coincidence that his portrait hangs at West Point.
Freedom recognizes its own.

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Ben Hodges@general_ben·
Most insightful and poignant analysis I’ve read today.
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation. Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention. In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust. But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming. American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time. Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical. Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself. Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office? This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest? Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse. This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price. The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most. So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television. History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

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Ben Hodges@general_ben·
Our Ambassadors in Denmark and now Poland are pissing off two of our closest allies with their oafish behavior. And this on the heels of dissing the Soldiers of our Allies who fought with us in Afghanistan and Iraq. Is this intentional or is the Administration just incompetent?
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦@AdamKinzinger

Can we please agree that our ambassador to Poland is an ass hat pissing off one of our best allies? Recall him senate Americans have no clue how awful and expensive a world with no friends is

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Roman Giertych
Roman Giertych@GiertychRoman·
Dear Mr. Ambassador, Your position that you will not maintain relations with Włodzimierz Czarzasty, who was elected by a parliamentary majority representing the majority of Poles, is simply outrageous. The times when ambassadors dictated to Poles who should hold what office in Poland are over and will never return. We want good relations with the United States, but your representatives will not choose the authorities of the Republic of Poland for us. I have never been a fan of Włodzimierz Czarzasty, but in this matter, as a Member of Parliament, I stand firmly behind him. Your President first insulted Polish soldiers and then demands support for his dreams of receiving the Nobel Prize. The times when Nero, under threat of punishment, demanded recognition for his musical talents have been regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. From the Polish perspective, Donald Trump’s efforts to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, while at the same time hanging a photograph of himself with the greatest criminal of our times—Putin—are similar to Nero’s demands for awards and praise. If you do not like the Polish authorities, please change your job. In Poland, Poles will democratically decide who holds the highest offices. Please come to terms with that. And please tell your President to apologize to Polish soldiers, and especially to the families of those of our heroes who fell while carrying out a NATO defense mission. Yours sincerely, Roman Giertych
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