RyneTryne
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@roddreher Why not? We've covered their asses for decades.
What do the Swiss need fighter jets for? They couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag.
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Wait … we STOLE Switzerland’s money?! Am I reading this right?
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: The United States just took over $126 million from Switzerland’s fighter jet account to cover missile shortfalls in the Iran war. Switzerland did not approve this. Switzerland did not consent. Switzerland had already frozen its Patriot payments after learning deliveries would be delayed four to five years. The US circumvented the freeze. SRF, Switzerland’s national broadcaster, reported on March 26 that Washington redirected Swiss funds originally allocated for 36 F-35 fighter jets to cover Patriot air defence shortfalls using the Foreign Military Sales pooled trust fund, a structure that allows the Pentagon to reallocate payments across a buyer’s contracts without that buyer’s permission. Swiss armaments chief Urs Loher confirmed the diverted amount is a “low three-digit million” Swiss francs and called the situation “very unsatisfactory.” The money Switzerland paid for jets is now subsidising a war Switzerland refused to participate in. Bern halted new arms exports to the US on March 20 citing the Iran conflict. Switzerland rejected two US military flyover requests linked to Iran operations. Two hundred years of armed neutrality, and Washington reached into the account anyway. Here is why. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors defending Gulf states in the first four days of Operation Epic Fury per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post last week. Lockheed Martin and Boeing produce 620 Patriot interceptors per year combined. In four days, America burned through eighteen months of global Patriot production. The war has consumed roughly one-third of the entire THAAD missile stockpile. Annual THAAD production does not exceed 100 units. The cost asymmetry is what makes the depletion irreversible at current production rates. Each PAC-3 interceptor costs $3.9 million. Each Iranian Shahed drone costs between $20,000 and $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Iran manufactures an estimated 10,000 Shaheds per month per Reuters. America produces 620 interceptors per year. Iran builds more drones in a single week than the United States builds interceptors in an entire year. Every interceptor fired in the Gulf is one that cannot be delivered to Switzerland, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, or Poland. The State Department warned allies on March 27 that Patriot deliveries to Ukraine would face disruptions as the Pentagon prioritises Iran per Quiver Quantitative. Senator Chris Murphy said on record: “We’ve been told again and again one reason we can’t provide interceptors for the Patriot system for Ukraine is that they’re in short supply.” Lockheed signed a framework to quadruple production to 2,000 units per year. That capacity will not arrive for six to seven years. The Pentagon has asked Congress to shift $1.5 billion from other programmes to accelerate procurement per Bloomberg. None of this helps now. The interceptors are depleting now. The allied accounts are being raided now. Switzerland is considering reducing its F-35 order from 36 to 30 jets and accelerating evaluation of European alternatives per Bluewin and Global Defense Corp. Swiss parliamentarians have called the redirection “an unacceptable violation of procurement sovereignty.” The Swiss parliament is preparing formal hearings. Switzerland is the canary. A neutral country with two centuries of armed neutrality just had its fighter jet money taken without consent to feed a four-week-old war that burns 18 months of interceptor production every 96 hours. Every US ally with a pending defence contract should be asking one question: whose account is next? Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@JanHerdal Finland hater Russland. Hvilket bedre sted er det å være enn i NATO?
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Finland er blitt et politisk nervevrak. Gikk inn i NATO da alliansen allerede var i ferd med å falle fra hverandre. Droppet nøytraliteten som er blitt et stadig mer gullkantet verdipapir, både politisk og økonomisk.
Alternative News@AlternatNews
Finland is threatening the US. ‘We will make sure that weapons go to Ukraine and not to Israel.’ Finland is a basket case. They joined NATO at a time when it is falling apart. They gave up valuable neutrality for NATO, which is now backstabbing. Punching above your weight is never good in the long term. Finland threatening the US? Are you serious?
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@TheLaurbarian @WarriorNight007 This is very common on the internet.
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This man rescued an abandoned dog that was about to die. People like him have already earned their place in heaven
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@TheLaurbarian @WarriorNight007 This dude probably drugged the dog and put him there to make money of this video
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@WarriorNight007 Poor dog was probably so anemic from the parasite overload… bless this dude. People that save the most vulnerable among us are “the helpers” Mr. Rogers talked about 🥹❤️
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@volcaholic1 People dont't care about what it can do. But how long it would last.
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In China, washing machines are evolving fast. Triple-drum machines can run three separate loads at once.
One main drum plus two smaller ones for delicates, all with separate water systems. Some models use AI and can be controlled from your phone.
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FUCKING FINALLY!!!
ZELENSKY MADE IT CLEAR:
“Trump wants a quick end to the war, but “quick” means at someone’s expense. I won’t accept peace at Ukraine’s expense.“
BIG “FUCK YOU” TO MAGA BY THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT!!
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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The biggest mystery in football.
🏴 How — the hell — did England not win a World Cup or European Championship with this group of players.
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@AnimalUnite Omg this facility is huge!! How could anyone work there?? Please help these babies a stop the suffering of animal experiments
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One of the UK’s versions of #Ridglan, MBR Acres in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, where over 2,000+ beagles are bred into an existence of suffering annually — shipped off to laboratories to be tormented to their very last breaths and discarded.
Pls, all, do your part to end this!
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Ok, men krigen I Ukraina er vår krig, synes du å mene?
Det er ca 2200 km fra Norge til Donetsk, og 4500 km til Hormuzstredet.
Har du en slags cut-off på km for hva som er "vår krig" eller ikke? I tilfelle hvor? 3000 km?
Eller venter du bare på hva Støre mener om det, før du sier noe?
x.com/MagneBjella/st…
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enig! Støre: – Krigen i Iran er ikke vår krig
Donald Trump ber om alliert støtte i Hormuzstredet. Statsministrene i Norden og Canada sender et annet signal.
dn.no/utenriks/iran-…
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🚨 BREAKING:
Argentina FA president says no to the Bernabéu and pushes for the Monumental as Finalissima venue. The dispute over the stadium is heating up 🔥
Where should they settle this? 🤔
#Finalissima
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🚨 BREAKING: For the FIRST time EVER, the World Cup will feature two guaranteed hydration breaks in EVERY game.
Two 3 minute breaks will be called by the referee in each half, REGARDLESS of weather conditions.
Broadcasters WILL be allowed to play ads. @TheAthleticFC
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@InsaneReality Correction - not stillborns but very young live goats (kids) - part of an animal sacrifice ritual to various Indian deities of the Tamil Nadu.
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Meanwhile in South Asia
⚠️ Warning - Trigger warning clip 🤬‼️
It should abundantly clear by now - that not all cultures are the same.
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Finalissima mellom Spania og Argentina skal etter planen spilles i Qatar denne måneden. En dårlig idé har blitt enda dårligere med tidens seneste hendelser i Midtøsten. Arrangørene må snart ta til vettet. Avlys kampen eller flytt den, f.eks. til Camp Nou.
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@HaraldNatvik Skal man bygge ett kollektiv må man ha tålmodighet. Det har ikke denne klubbledelsen eller fansen.
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Bare å legge ned denne sesongen, kvitte oss med daukjøtt (Alaba, Rudiger osv), kvitte oss med egoister (Vini Jr), kvitte oss med middelmådigheter som er skadet, få inn en trener som evner å bygge et kollektivt lag.....
Madrid Universal@MadridUniversal
🚨 BREAKING: Rodrygo's knee injury is very serious, as per COPE.
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