Rob Hoole 🇬🇧 🇺🇦

NATO Article 5 has only been invoked once; by the USA after 9/11.

Trump’s former Secretary of Defense James Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.” (2020)

@joncoopertweets Says it all.

Good lord, MAGA Republicans like this guy are straight-up morons. I know it’s not nice to say, but it’s true. Don’t waste your breath trying to reason with them using facts. Save your energy.

@atrupar Could the USA sink any lower in the estimation of the rest of the world? Donald ‘Bone Spurs’ Trump seems to be taking the country on a one-way trip to disaster. The problem is, when the USA sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. At this rate, it’s heading for pneumonia.

Fox News reads Trump's disgraceful Memorial Day post as though it's a normal presidential message

@CattardSlim Nuff said.

This is your average Trump supporter 🤦 Trumper: Trump gave up everything to be President, his hotels & everything! Greenwald: He's way richer now than before he became President. Trumper: So. You're just jealous!

@jurgen_nauditt You can tell whenever Russian forces suffer any military setback. They target Ukrainian population centres as ruthless retribution.

Shocking footage of the destruction in Kyiv following Russian attacks last night. Russia has once again targeted only civilian objectives. Russia is a cancer.

@Bitcoin_Teddy Er…

Trump: “I love Canada … But the United States can't subsidize a country for $200 billion a year … You have to run your own country. And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state … I'm sorry, we have to do this.”

@AndrewKenyon6 @CdrEricson With Capt John Phillips DSC RE (left) during a visit to the UK Defence Academy at Shrivenham in 2014.

@AndrewKenyon6 @CdrEricson Staff Sergeant Jim Prescott CGM RE was killed while attempting to defuze the bomb on board HMS ANTELOPE but WOII (later Capt) John Phillips DSC RE survived despite losing his left arm. I had the privilege of hosting him (left) at the MCDOA’s annual dinner in 2016.

Remembering #OTD 1982 the ultimate sacrifice given by crew member ( Mark Stephens) HMS Antelope in the initial air attack in 💣 alley and later that night John Phillips who was attempting to defuse UXB 🙏, I paid my respects last year at the memorial on Campito hill 😞🫡

@realDonaldTrump Such childish behaviour seriously demeans Trump’s stature and discredits the office of the President of the United States in the eyes of the world.

🚨 UPDATE: President Trump has abruptly CANCELED his trip to Trump National in Bedminster, NJ, and will be heading STRAIGHT BACK to the White House following a speech in New York It's unclear why, but in a post about not attending Don Jr.'s wedding, 47 said "I feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, DC, at the White House during this important period of time"

@atrupar NATO countries’ proximity to Cuba: Florida (US) - 90 miles Cayman Islands (British) - 141 miles Bonaire (Dutch) - 736 miles Guadaloupe & Martinique (French) - 930 miles Ontario (Canadian) 1,500 miles

Q: Is there a role for NATO to play when it comes to Cuba? MARCO RUBIO: NATO is far from Cuba

@SavchenkoReview Trump and his cronies are learning the hard way that NATO was set up for the mutual defence of its members, not as their personal train set to throw into their reckless, illegal wars as an afterthought or dig them out of the doo-doo when it all goes wrong.

🤔🇺🇸 Rubio to meet NATO foreign ministers for first time since Trump expressed dissatisfaction with the Alliance over its stance on Iran Before leaving for the meeting in 🇸🇪Sweden, Rubio said that Trump was "very disappointed" with the Alliance members who did not allow the US to use bases on their territory for war. "You have countries like 🇪🇸Spain that deny us the use of these bases - so why are you in NATO? It's a very fair question," the Secretary of State told reporters in Miami.

@JFS0six Nuff said.

It is continually said that the USA pays for 62% of the costs of NATO. THAT is a LIE. What we are seeing are the charts and numbers of all the countries of NATO added together and their spending on their OWN defense. It has been proven that number does not represent what people think it means. Almost none of that money goes to pay for other countries defense or to NATO. Again it is for each country's OWN defense , to spend as they decide. NOW the real numbers of each countries share of NATO expenses. (As an example it costs the USA around $800 MILLION to be part of NATO. It is the only thing that adds to the USA deficit. ) The Common Budget of NATO is dependent on the GNI of each country with a few exceptions .... Look at the Charts of each countries GNI compared to the GNI of ALL NATO Countries. What do you see ... look at the percentages Now do you see you have misled for YEARS (The USA pays a lower percentage because it it such a huge portion of the world's economy. NATO decisions were made years ago to have the USA percent lower because of that. The highest the USA has even paid was a little over 28%. You don't seem Europe whining about the USA not paying their "fair share" do you) Support information links to the facts are below: Total NATO spending : x.com/i/grok/share/0… Amount the USA is required to pay for others defense : x.com/i/grok/share/7… USA's percentage of GNI of NATO as a whole: x.com/i/grok/share/7… What the USA and other countries pay for the NATO Common Budget : x.com/i/grok/share/c… USA's historic percentage of the NATO Common Budget: x.com/i/grok/share/b…

@StateDept Trump and his cronies are learning the hard way that NATO was set up for the mutual defence of its members, not as their personal train set to throw into their reckless, illegal wars as an afterthought or dig them out of the doo-doo when it all goes wrong.

SECRETARY RUBIO: I don’t think anyone is shocked to know that the United States and the President are very disappointed in NATO right now. If NATO countries like Spain are denying us the use of these bases, why are we in NATO? We need to discuss that.

@JohnCleese These Russian ambassadors, eh? What can you do with them?

All these sad second-raters have to offer is lies. lies, and more lies

@Gerashchenko_en @MelnykAndrij These Russian ambassadors, eh? What can you do with them?

Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk @MelnykAndrij: the war that Putin believed would produce his crowning life achievement will prove to be his final downfall. Ambassador Melnyk on Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians and Russian attacks on international law: The first half of May has become one of the deadliest periods for Ukrainian civilians since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale military invasion, reaching a new level of barbarism. The Russian armed forces have continued to deliberately and systematically attack the civilian population in Ukraine. Between the 1st and 11th of May alone, Russia launched over 600 attack drones and 16 ballistic missiles against Ukrainian cities and communities. More than 40 civilians were killed and over 200 were injured. On the 5th of May, Russia struck multiple regions simultaneously. These outrageous Russian terror attacks occurred just hours after President Zelenskyy announced a ceasefire to take effect during the night of the 5th to 6th of May and called on Putin to take genuine steps toward ending its war of aggression. Ignoring this appeal, the Russian armed forces continued their perfidious assaults against the infrastructure, including a strike on a kindergarten in Sumy on the 6th of May, where two people were killed and seven civilians were seriously injured. The three-day ceasefire was ultimately agreed for the 9th and 11th of May, following a statement by President Trump. Ukraine honored it fully and was ready for its continuation. Continued assaults of drones and strikes along the front line even during this period were registered. These three days were used by Moscow to accumulate more missiles and long-range attack drones, which were unleashed against Ukrainian cities just after that. The humanitarian situation and the catastrophe unfolding in the temporarily occupied areas of Kherson region, especially, in Oleshky, Hola Prystan, Stara Zburivka, and Nova Zburivka, urgently demands this Council's attention. Russian forces are deliberately blocking the departure of civilians and obstructing the supply of basic goods, food, water, and medicine. Critical infrastructure has been completely destroyed there. There is no electricity and no gas supply. These communities are on the brink of collapse. Civilians attempting to purchase food or leave by private vehicle are literally hunted by Russian drone strikes. More than 6,000 people require urgent humanitarian assistance, including approximately 200 children. The majority are persons with limited mobility. We call on UN Member States to force Russia to comply with international humanitarian law to allow evacuation corridors for those Ukrainians who wish to leave. The war that Putin believed would produce his crowning life achievement will prove to be his final downfall. Russia's trampling of its international obligations must not just be condemned. We need a new sanctions regime against Russia's nuclear arsenals. Despite the fact that Russia cannot win this war, we continue to hear the same shameless demands of Putin that Ukraine must capitulate. He continues to insist on Ukraine's surrender. But our reply to Russia is very simple: don't hold your breath.

@JoannaRN_ @DemocraticWins It’s hilarious that so many Americans find it strange that outsiders tend to speak more than one language.

@DemocraticWins You’re such a fn liar! They don’t speak English on Greenland

BREAKING: Protestors in Greenland are outside the U.S. embassy chanting “Go Home USA.” This is what Donald Trump has done to our nation. He’s made us a global embarrassment.

@maria_drutska These Russian ambassadors, eh? What can you do with them?

Nebenzya, Russia’s envoy to the UN, claims Ukraine uses strike drones to “kill and harm Russian civilians” and accuses Kyiv of “gamifying” warfare. He says this undermines the fundamental principles of armed conflict. WHAT A NONSENSE Ukraine has consistently operated within international law while defending itself from a state that invades, occupies, deports children, executes prisoners, bombs civilians in their homes. Ukrainian children and entire families are being killed at night in their apartments, while sleeping in their own beds, by Russian missiles and drones. And Russia still has the nerve to lecture Ukraine about the “principles” of warfare. There is not enough space on this platform to list all the laws and norms Russia has violated.

@steadystate2025 This Admiral has sanctioned the extrajudicial executions (murders) of civilian noncombatants, including incapacitated (shipwrecked) survivors, on the high seas. Drug smuggling, even if proven, is not a crime inducing capital punishment. Where next? The streets of America?

A combatant commander should not have to be cornered into acknowledging the plain text of the Law of War Manual. “No quarter” is prohibited. It’s a simple question with a simple answer.

@factpostnews The man's sick to have made such a comment.

Trump: We lost 13 people. In other wars, you lost hundreds of thousands of people. I get a kick when I look at somebody on television and they say, 'he's lost 13 people.'