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Nigel John Benton

@NigelBenton

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Nottingham Katılım Şubat 2009
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Nigel John Benton
Nigel John Benton@NigelBenton·
@Acyn @MeidasTouch God damn that evil brain worm really f’ckd RFK JR up huh.., gawd bless him and his weird ways!!💯😌✌️
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Acyn@Acyn·
RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map..
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Liam Nissan™
Liam Nissan™@theliamnissan·
They're telling the Marines to prepare for battle. Many will die for Trump's lies
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The Intellectualist
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow·
Kristi Noem: “We can't trust our government anymore.” CNN: “You are the government.” Noem: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”@atrupar (2026)
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Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦
Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦@DeborahMeaden·
As I said… only less eloquently and a lot less words!!!
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

If America Leaves NATO, the Bill Lands in Washington “NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?” That argument sounds airtight. It also gets almost everything backwards. The Industrial Logic No One Wants to Say Out Loud. For decades, NATO membership has functioned as the world’s most effective arms sales platform. When a country joins the alliance, it buys American. F-35s, Patriot batteries, HIMARS, Javelins. It becomes structurally dependent on American spare parts, software updates, and maintenance contracts. It is the most sophisticated captive market in military history. Poland alone devotes 4.7 percent of its GDP to defense. These are not abstract trade figures. They are jobs in Fort Worth, Orlando, and East Hartford. They are the economic foundation of entire congressional districts. A US exit from NATO does not preserve this arrangement. It ends it. Canada and Portugal have already signaled reservations about F-35 commitments worth up to $19 billion, citing political unpredictability in Washington. When two countries walk away from an American platform, others begin running the same calculation. EU member states spent 343 billion euros on defense in 2024, a 19 percent rise from the year before. The political momentum behind “Buy European” is real and growing. The market will remain. NATO gives the United States something no defense budget line can purchase: forward positioning, intelligence integration, and political legitimacy across 30 countries. These are the operating system of American global influence.Without them, the United States becomes alone. The Indo-Pacific pivot is not wrong on its merits. But forward positioning in Europe is not a drain on Pacific readiness. It is the network that makes global power projection coherent. Cut one node and the whole system degrades. The Quiet Withdrawal Already Underway. A formal exit has not happened. But the functional retreat is well advanced. The Trump administration has told European allies the US will no longer serve as NATO’s primary conventional defense provider after 2027. Joint force commands are being transferred to European generals. Intelligence-sharing arrangements built over decades are being quietly renegotiated. Each move is individually defensible. Collectively, they produce the same outcome as a formal withdrawal, without the legal fight or the Senate vote. The irony is considerable. The administration that views NATO as a bad deal for America is dismantling the mechanism that made American arms exports dominant in global defense markets. The alliance was never just a security arrangement. It was the most durable commercial advantage in the history of the defense industry. So back to the question. Why would America be there for allies who aren’t there for America? Because “there for us” included $343 billion in European defense spending flowing toward American suppliers. It included 30 countries hosting American bases and intelligence networks. It included the political architecture that let Washington call itself the leader of the free world and have other governments agree. Not a subsidy to Europe. A return on investment that took 75 years to build. The bill for dismantling it will not arrive in Brussels. It will arrive in Fort Worth.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

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Jordan Crowder
Jordan Crowder@digijordan·
Interesting Development: The things that we’re pretending to be drones and planes last year… Seem to be mimicking meteors now.
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Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
Trump on the Iran war: “We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation,I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress…So I call it a military operation”
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Astral🛸@The_Astral_·
This was JD Vance 6 months ago saying he has access to UFO files but hasn’t even looked at them. Fast forward to today… he still hasn’t, after saying he’s obsessed with the UFO topic. What are we doing?
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John Greenewald, Jr.
John Greenewald, Jr.@theblackvault·
Happy birthday, dad. I miss you more than you know.
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Nigel John Benton@NigelBenton·
@highbrow_nobrow He’s a dumb little boy with elementary school knowledge of the world is and how it works… if you voted for Trump, you were duped by a narcissistic sociopath who cares about nothing but himself and his kind!! 💯🤨👎
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The Intellectualist
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow·
Trump gives reason to abandon NATO Allies: Russia affects our allies more than us. We have an “ocean between us”. (2024) Fact-check: The United States is only about 2.4 miles from Russia at the Diomede Islands. The Earth is round. 🌎
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Owlcat Games
Owlcat Games@OwlcatGames·
Take the helm and step into your Expanse story. WISHLIST Action RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn on Steam 🚀
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Brendan May
Brendan May@bmay·
No idea why anyone thinks this sneering, self-satisfied, contemptible, divisive, and deeply unserious self-publicist would be fit to run even a fairground ride, let alone a G7 economy. He’s just a tedious pantomime baddie in a suit. Idiotic and shallow.
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Ankit Mayank@mr_mayank·
BREAKING : Situation so bad that the 🇺🇸 US is literally begging for HELP “Few European leaders said this is not Europe’s war. Well, Ukraine is also not US’s war. Nobody showed up when US needed HELP” 😭 Trump is becoming a laughing stock 🤣
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