Tiger Tom2022

@lady_valor_07 20, means I am old, huh?

@UKikaski You needed to explain in your article that these 5,000 US troops that are moving out of Germany were initially installed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since that war has stabilized, the US is rightly making the decision to revert to pre-war status deployment.

🇩🇪🇺🇸 𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 | 𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗟 BLUF: The U.S. will withdraw or cancel the deployment of 5,000 troops from | to Germany over the next 6-12 months. The documented trigger is the public clash between the president and Chancellor Merz over Iran. The Pentagon framing was “… studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany …” as part the long-standing debate on NATO funding. The Putin call framing circulating in partisan circles and on social media is not confirmed in current sourcing. What is not in dispute is that the Kremlin scores a win regardless. Speaking to students in Marsberg on April 28, Merz said the Iranians were "very skillfully not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result," adding that the U.S. was being humiliated by the IRGC specifically. Trump, in typical form, took umbrage. Merz was reacting to domestic political pressure. Germany's economy is taking direct hits from the Hormuz closure. Reduced Qatari LNG and Gulf crude supply is driving industrial input costs higher, while diesel, jet fuel, and heating oil price increases are landing directly on German consumers and the freight sector. Merz's domestic political standing is tied to that economic narrative, and both anti-Trump and Muslim constituencies are compounding the pressure on his messaging. Whatever one thinks of this president, the Islamic Republic has killed Americans and Europeans, funded proxy groups that terrorize Jews and Muslims alike, institutionalizes the brutalization of women, executes protestors and the doctors who treated the wounded ones, destabilizes the region through terrorist proxies, and is in active pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Previous administrations kicked the problem down the road. This one is attempting to end it. Although Germany, and Europe in general, have both economic and political pressures stemming from U.S. and Israeli action in Iran, they too personally absorbed the fallout of Iran's policies in the Middle East. The refugee crisis that reshaped European domestic politics for a decade was not incidental. Iran spent an estimated $30 billion and deployed IRGC Quds Force commanders, directed Hezbollah into the fight, and recruited Iraqi and Afghan Shiite militias to prevent Assad's collapse in Syria. The strategic logic was not ideological solidarity. Syria was the land bridge to Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the entire western arc of Iran's proxy network depended on that corridor. Keeping it open was worth propping up a government that, along with Russia's support, killed an estimated 500,000 of its own people and drove millions more toward Europe's borders. Germany alone absorbed over a million Syrian refugees between 2015 and 2016. The political consequences of which are still relevant. The AfD's rise, the strain on Merz's coalition, the fracturing of consensus on immigration and integration, all of it has a direct line back to a conflict Iran chose to sustain rather than allow to resolve. And quite frankly, one Europe chose to ignore while working to ease sanctions on Iran and secure access to low-cost energy from the region. So forgive me for being so blunt, but the whole thing drips with hypocrisy. Personal animosity or political convenience should not displace the larger point. A democratic and secular Iran that cannot blackmail the world is the better long-term solution, for Europe as much as for the United States. Conversely, there are no grounds for the president to allow personal political friction to drive decisions with direct consequences for U.S. and European strategic and security priorities. In the end, the Pentagon gave the president the outcome his ire demanded without substantially disrupting NATO force posture. The problem is that opposition calculus, in the U.S. and Europe alike, has prioritized Trump as the threat worth organizing around. Iran, Russia and China are often the beneficiaries of that prioritization, and the strategic cost is not abstract. Diagnosis: Political theatrics on both sides, constituencies energized, no real changes made, while Russia and Iran use the friction to their advantage. NATO Secretary General Rutte, who typically avoids domestic political commentary, was direct on this point. He warned publicly that prolonged diplomatic hesitation on Iran risked a "North Korea moment," where Iran's nuclear capacity moves beyond the point where it can still be stopped. He stated that what the U.S. was able to accomplish against Iran's nuclear program was possible because most European countries provided the platform, and that those who did not made it harder. His conclusion: the whole world is safer for this president degrading those capabilities. The reaction to Rutte's remarks was instructive. European governments pressured him privately to walk back his endorsement, telling him directly this was not NATO's war. He held his position and doubled down. The pushback that followed was largely grassroots, concentrated on social media, with vocal calls to replace him with EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, framed as a harder line on Russia and a more authentically European voice. The connecting thread: they believe that Trump is a Russian asset and Rutte is enabling him. Although that claim does not hold, the sentiment is the point. The same European political circles that resist confronting Iran's nuclear program are organizing around the removal of the one NATO official willing to state plainly that the world is safer for degrading it. Power politics often makes strange bedfellows, but choosing to stand in the way of ending the Islamic Republic's four-decade reign of regional terror will be seen as being on the wrong side of history. So, which is it? Enduring three more years of Trump or decades of the Iranian threat? #Iran #OSINT

@kc_btl84 welcome home Uncle KC

Never felt so good to be back in America

@sentdefender Time for the USA to move on from the declining and decadent Western Europe. Let the collapse under their own self-inflicted hubris.

According to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, her government will not renew a defense agreement the country has with Israel that comprised of technological cooperation and military equipment exchanges, citing the situation in the Middle East for the move. Full Comment: In view of the current situation, the government has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement with Israel.

@Osinttechnical How about the USN had some of those ships turn off their transponders so the IRGC could not track them using marinetraffic?

Bloomberg: “It was not clear where the president got that exact figure, as it appears to be higher than the number tracked by Bloomberg”

@PubWanghaf He did not lose this Catholic's vote. However, Trump is not eligible to run in 2028. Take a US civics lesson or two before you spout nonsense.

Trump just lost EVERY single catholic voter in 2028 His reelection chances are GONE

@otokyo__ Fat Daddies

What the best name for this seal team 🤔

@renabaddie_ Croquet

Can you think of an answer to this qestion ?🤔

@UKikaski What is not spoken of is what happens to the shadow fleet tankers after they unload their oil in India? Seizure? This might be a brilliant ploy to sucks those tankers.

‼️🇷🇺🩸🛢️𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗢𝗶𝗹 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙚 "𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨" On Thursday, the White House began easing sanctions on Russian oil by issuing India a 30-day waiver allowing the delivery of Russian crude. Treasury Secretary Bessent then announced on Friday that the United States could remove more Russian sanctions to ease rising crude prices. This is the same Russia that, along with China, helped arm Iran, transferred critical military support, and, according to U.S. government sources and Iran’s own foreign minister, continues assisting Iran in targeting American soldiers, bases, ships, and Gulf energy infrastructure. This is the same Russia that, with Chinese support, is conducting a land war against a democratic European Country, targeting civilian infrastructure, and keeping the continent under permanent energy and security threat. The arrangement is elegant in its cynicism. Russia and China help set multiple fires across the globe. Iran is their critical partner in spreading that chaos in the Middle East. The U.S. and Israel move to end the threat. Iran, with support from Moscow and Beijing, targets American soldiers and military bases and starts an energy war. The White House then decides those with the most blood on their hands should be rewarded. Even more cynical is that the human cost of this axis of evil is to be forgotten now. They are the Iranian protesters shot in the streets by their own regime, with estimates as high as 30,000 during the recent uprising. They are the civilians and dissidents, the vast majority of which are Muslims, crushed by Tehran’s proxy wars across the Middle East. They are the Syrians murdered by Assad with the support of Iranian proxies and the humanitarian crisis it triggered. They are the victims of Russia’s imperial campaigns from Chechnya to Georgia to Ukraine, wars that left millions of casualties on both side and displaced entire populations. They are Israeli civilians murdered by Iran’s proxy forces. They are the Americans murdered in terrorist attacks from September 11th onward and the soldiers killed fighting the networks that followed. They are the Ukrainian civilians buried under apartment blocks and power stations destroyed by Russian missiles today. That is the body count produced by the regimes now working together across Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing. And after all of that blood, Washington issues a waiver so Russian blood oil can flow again so they can rearm themselves and repeat the cycle. With polling soft and midterms approaching, the White House appears ready to choose transactional deals with the despots responsible for this crisis over the principles that created the sanctions policy. #OSINT #Ukraine #EpicFury

@Mayas556 True

@dbookownsyou Skill decline due to aging. Happens in pro sports every year.

Devin Bookers splits this season 45% from the field 29% from the 3 85% from the FT line What happened to Devin Booker?

@Arden_2210 Tit

No word start with "T" End with "T"

@AVGirl4Life tit

Hmmm 🤔

@oelma__ 68

Eye acuity test, what number is missing?

@kc_btl84 I do not get excited about any rookie till they really show me they are as good as the hype. To me the last rookie who lived to the immediate hype was Luka. After watching the Suns dismantle the myth of Wemby, I have my doubts about him now.

I'm excited about Cooper Flagg and the future in Dallas. But man...it's really hard to watch the Mavs right now

@MatthewLissy @SunsJAM Based on the Suns preseason (for what that is worth), 48-win season for Suns is a possible.

Spoilers if you are following @SunsJAM, but this is my final prediction for the upcoming 2025-26 season. 🏀

@Suns How many minutes would Butler get as the 15th player? Not much. Suns did him a favor by waiving him and giving him the chance to get more playing time elsewhere.

OFFICIAL: The Suns have waived guards Jared Butler and David Duke Jr.

@____1985_____ @Suns How many minutes would Butler get as the 15th player? not much. Suns did him a favor by waiving him and giving him the chance to get more playing time elsewhere.

@TJ_AxsAmerica @BasedBlondex @ShadowofEzra He has a backpack. If the rifle in the media is the right one, that stock could have been removed and carried in pack and barrel on the body. Barrels are usually 20"-24".

@BasedBlondex @ShadowofEzra When you have a barrel of a rifle down your pants and the Stock under your arm, you can’t bend your knee

Newly uncovered security footage shows the figure responsible for Charlie Kirk’s death walking toward the scene before sprinting away afterward. The suspect’s appearance aligns with the description released by the FBI of their person of interest.

@sentdefender That looks like liberal boomer. Utah has the death penalty.