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@WhiteHouse Kids

In a galaxy that demands strength - America stands ready. This is the way. May the 4th be with you.

@IngrahamAngle No. They just don’t like your country. And they are welcome in Europe. The best place in the world.

Apparently Canada intends to become a province of Europe.

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Four days ago, I wrote that after every Trump-Putin phone call, something deranged follows within weeks. I said mark the date. I said the clock is ticking. I was wrong. It took seventy-two hours. Allow me to recap what the leader of the free world has done to his closest allies since that cosy ninety-minute phone call with a man who poisons people in their driveways. Germany: 5,000 troops withdrawn. More promised. The Army’s Long Range Fires Battalion, scheduled to deploy to Europe, quietly cancelled. Germany, which actually met its NATO spending targets, which opened its bases and airspace to American operations, which did everything Trump asked, got punished anyway. Because its chancellor had the audacity to point out that Iran was humiliating Washington at the negotiating table. He was right. That was the problem. Italy: threatened with troop withdrawal because, in Trump’s words, Italy “has not been of any help.” Italy, a founding NATO member. Italy, which hosts tens of thousands of American troops and several critical US military installations. Useless, apparently. Spain: “horrible. Absolutely horrible.” Spain’s crime was refusing to let the United States use Spanish bases and airspace to bomb Iran. A sovereign decision by a sovereign ally. Described by the President of the United States as horrible. The European Union: 25% tariffs on cars and trucks, announced in the same week as the troop withdrawals. Germany builds cars. This was not a coincidence. And through all of this, Vladimir Putin got a ceasefire proposal endorsed, a nuclear diplomacy role handed to him on a plate, and not a single harsh word. Four days ago I predicted one unhinged announcement, one ally humiliated, and one idea so catastrophically stupid that the national security apparatus would spend a weekend trying to undo it. We got four allies humiliated, two economic attacks, and a full military retreat from the continent America spent eighty years promising to defend. I would say I am surprised. But I wrote it down in advance. Which makes this less a prediction and more a schedule. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@defense_civil25 love it. Europe doesn't care.

🚨Update: President Trump states that the US may withdraw ALL troops out of Germany and we will ‘bring them home,’ not just move them to another nation in Europe!!

BREAKING: Iran has said it stopped a US warship from entering the Strait of Hormuz. Two missiles hit the warship near Jask Island after it ignored Iranian warnings, according to Iran's Fars news agency. Middle East war latest: trib.al/EjNHvn0 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

@OttavioMCMLXI theguardian.com/world/live/202…

@Microinteracti1 This is a major development. Have any other outlets, news or otherwise or, X accounts reported this?

An American warship attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz has been struck by two missiles, according to Iranian state media. The vessel reportedly ignored repeated warnings from Iranian forces before the attack, the same source told Reuters. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

🚨AMERICA HAS ISSUED A WARNING TO EUROPE AND NATO! 🇺🇸 TRUMP: "This was a test for NATO. You can help us. You don't have to. But if you don't do that, we are gonna remember... Remember this in a number of months from now, remember my statements. We can NEVER forget."

@business Rutte must resign.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned European leaders that US President Donald Trump is disappointed with their reluctance to assist with the war in Iran bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A 78-year-old woman was jumping on a trampoline in her apartment. Not carefully. Properly jumping. Zero breathlessness. The man watching her from the doorway, still out of breath from the stairs, was a Danish professor with 266,000 academic citations. He has eaten the same breakfast every morning since. 35 years. The recipe changed how my body feels. It will change yours. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

The European army already exists. It has four years of combat experience and runs the most advanced drone programme on the planet. It just held the eastern front of European security against Russia's full weight. It is called Ukraine. The knowledge is already flowing into production lines in Norway, Poland, the Baltics, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Each factory incorporating battlefield lessons no simulation has ever generated and no American defence contractor has access to. Washington told Zelensky he had no cards. Pulled the support. Slammed the door. A few months later sixteen American bases sit shredded across the Middle East, the Navy parked thousands of kilometres away because nothing closer is safe to dock, strike sorties burning hours of fuel just to reach the target, picked apart by Iran with Chinese and Russian satellite data, while drones cross airspace the United States used to own. That is the country still demanding Europe spend five percent of GDP on American hardware built for last century's war. I think the question answers itself.👇🖊️ open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

@bundeskanzler Embarrassing. Grow a spine

The United States is and will remain Germany‘s most important partner in the North Atlantic Alliance. We share a common goal: Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.

Europe has to become an empire again.

BREAKING: President Trump said the United States will begin to help free neutral foreign ships locked up in the Strait of Hormuz. He called the operation "Project Freedom" and said it will begin Monday morning.

@bundeskanzler @_FriedrichMerz @CarenMiosgaTalk Trump is on Russian side. That’s why America is not a partner

Die Amerikaner sind und bleiben der wichtige Partner für Deutschland im nordatlantischen Bündnis. Wir haben ein gemeinsames Ziel: Iran darf keine Atomwaffen erhalten. @CarenMiosgaTalk

@RapidResponse47 @StateDept Zzzzz

@MarkU5656 It does idiot. Read a book.

@Microinteracti1 Oh, air refueling doesn't exist, especially for carriers you foolishly dismiss. & Subs. & Missile shooters. & Elint, sigint, & satellites. & the US economy. & ... oh, your argument is now dismissed.

Germany is not hosting American troops. It is hosting American power. Amplifying it. Projecting it across three continents. And now, for the first time with real legal and political weight behind it, voices inside Germany are beginning to say out loud: Berlin could shut down every American base on German soil. A fiber-optic cable runs beneath Ramstein Air Base. It carries a signal from a drone pilot in Nevada to an armed aircraft over Yemen. Fraction of a second. Precision. Control. That cable sits on German soil. Cut it, and the strikes do not miss. They simply cannot happen. This week Washington punished Berlin for telling the truth about the Iran war. Five thousand troops withdrawn. A presidential post calling Germany a failure. The language of a tenant who has forgotten whose name is on the deed. Because Berlin can end all of it. Not the 5,000. All 36,436. Every soldier, every satellite dish, every signal passing through German soil on its way to a target over Africa or the Middle East. Spain tore it up. Italy said no. Germany has not moved yet. But it is thinking about it. And what it is thinking about is this: Germany holds the one thing that separates America from every other country on earth. The ability to project military force across three continents simultaneously. Take away the European staging ground and the United States becomes what every other nation in the Western Hemisphere already is. Large. Armed. And unable to reach anyone who does not live next door. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…