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@alvaro01445820 @BScruvener @TKratman A civil war to install a 40 year dictatorship. lol, it sounds like another loss in Spain’s long list of struggles

@BScruvener @TKratman I guess the army would be the first,what a stupid question,lol... but we also had a civil war less than 100 years ago, so I suppose everyone would if necessary,why?

From Martin Iles, reposted: Having lived in the USA for nearly two years, I've realised something. The USA and the remainder of the Western world are no longer aligned. We all laugh and mock when the Americans say, "Freedom!" because we truly think we're as free as they are. Wrong. We're not. Not even close. The laws, the mindset, and the behaviour, is totally different in this regard. Most of all, the governments are totally different. The USA's convictions around core freedoms are on a scale we do not share. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wins the popular vote, the electoral college, the House, and the Senate... a man who, in every other Western country, is held in open derision, if not contempt. For these and other reasons, we are not the same. Yet the West, including Australia, fully expect to rely on the USA for our very survival. If the world turns bad (which will happen - only a question of time), then the whole West, without America, is toast. So, you may ask - if we're not very aligned ideologically, then it must be that we bring something to the party militarily? Well, no... actually... we don't matter that much militarily. The USA has about 470 ships in its navy, including 11 aircraft carriers, 69 submarines, 75 destroyers... plus 110 new ships in the pipeline. Australia has about 30, including 3 destroyers, 7 frigates and 7 outdated submarines. The UK does a little better, with about 60. Meanwhile, the US has over 14,000 military aircraft. A staggering number. Australia has 252 military aircraft. The UK has 556. The US army has just shy of 1,000,000 uniformed personnel in its military. Australia has about 45,000. The USA spends 3.4% ($968 billion) of its GDP on defence. Australia spends 2% ($36.4 billion). The US spends as much as the next 15 largest military-spending countries (including China) combined. The USA has a fighting culture. The men shoot things (a lot) and hunt things, the veterans get favoured in everything from parking spots to boarding planes. A uniformed young man is thanked in the street a dozen times a day. "Oh, the Americans and their guns!" we say, in our smug way. Yes, they have a warrior culture. We do not. We don't have to, because we're a leech on theirs. How many young British men are willing to fight for their country? Now ask the same regarding young American men. The difference is about as wide as it could be. Militarily, we don't offer squat. Meanwhile, look at the way Australia works against America's interests by loving on China. China made us rich and we stay close. This is a Marxist regime with expansionist aims. Again, you have to spend time in the USA to realise just how vast a gulf there is between us on China. Europe, too. They let China have their way everywhere from Germany to Greenland, all the while importing Islam and sending their own people to court for saying hurty words. Somehow, we have landed the deal of a lifetime with the USA that says, "when the baddies come, you'll save us ok?" Because we can't save ourselves. And we live in peace. But we keep gnawing away at freedoms, keep enabling China, and get flabby and disinterested about our military because Uncle Sam's got it. And, let's be honest, Americans are widely looked down on. To add insult to injury, we don't think that highly of our protectors. So, the USA is finally saying "enough." I am here, I can tell you what the vibe is, and that's it. Trump is doing what people want in this regard. They're over it. And we come across all shocked and hard done by. We behave like people with no self-insight at all. Yes, the global alliance system is all over the place now. From America's perspective, it's about time. And I must say, though I be a proud Australian, I am forced to agree. Something has to change.

@its_The_Dr Tafari & Reggie

Do you think Obama is Capable of m*rder? The housekeeper of former President Barack Obama has come forward to reveal that Obama was having a HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIR with his now deceased chef that the chef was about to go public with at the time that he was found dead in the water behind Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate of a supposed "accidental drowning". The death was initially determined to be A HOMICIDE by local police until The FBI, then under Joe Biden, swooped in and forced the coroner to change the cause of death to an accidental drowning, according to multiple local police sources familiar with the investigation of the chef's suspicious death.

@its_The_Dr He hired Team Hillary

@GonzaJA99 @RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 Again, the numbers were not denied or disputed. You’re the spreader of denials.

@Zeeman6164 @RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 Proving what? you disinformation spreader

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling is not mincing words. The former Commanding General of US Army Europe says these generals were purged because they stood up against Pete Hegseth’s push to turn the US military into a Christian nationalist crusade. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner says dozens of chaplains who don’t share Hegseth’s views are being marginalized and excluded from staff meetings.  The chaplain corps exists to serve all service members regardless of faith. That apparently made Green’s position untenable. The Pope has now weighed in. Hegseth’s prayer for battlefield violence prompted a response from Rome: God does not listen to those who wage war in his name. Hertling has seen enough. So have the troops. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 So BAE and Saab are moving from Virginia? Interesting news.

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand. Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes. Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports.  That is now over. Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington. Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic. Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@chiky_handlr @Suzierizzo1 It did take 15 long months to fire Bondi.

New poll finds almost 80% of Americans are 'Ashamed' of Trump. Do you agree?

@GonzaJA99 @RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 Here’s bullshit, General George’s finest.

@Zeeman6164 @RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 I didn’t ask grok. You’re just a bullshitter.

@patriotpdc @rgoodlaw War fighters…at the local Golden Corral

@rgoodlaw Maybe it’s just merit based again. Crazy idea.

Hegseth purge of Black and women officers larger than previously reported "Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for MORE THAN A DOZEN Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military." nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

@ElektraVBarron @rgoodlaw Then Biden’s corrupt pentagon used covid mandates, falsities and DEI to place trans lunatics and other unworthies in positions of power or positions TO power.

@dom_lucre Minnesota Clown boy. Served along side Al Franken

🔥🚨JUST IN: Jesse Ventura: “I’m still not over January 6th. That was treason. All of the people should have been arrested and put in prison all the way to Trump because he and Giuliani and all of them orchestrated the whole thing. He tried to violate the Constitution.”

@Wescott464348 Nope. Just waiting for his sedition speech.

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation." Are you standing with Admiral McRaven?

@GonzaJA99 @RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 You cited Grok word for word. Plagiarize much?

@Suzierizzo1 And my neighbor told my cousin the complete opposite.

This woman was just sitting next to a Lieutenant in the Army of over 14 years on a plane & she said that they’re coming for the black females.They’re reprimanding them for nothing & it shows they definitely want them out & now! She said she’s never seen anything like it before.

@RepMikeLevin The crisis is criminal county officials and manipulation of voting machines. The illegals game every other system, again, through criminal local officials. I agree the label is off, but that doesn’t change the issues.

Think about what Washington Republicans are actually asking you to believe: that there are noncitizens so committed to voting illegally that they’d risk deportation, prosecution, and everything we’ve seen ICE do, just to cast a ballot in our elections.      There is no documented crisis of noncitizens voting. It is already a federal crime, and it always has been.       Republicans invented a crisis that doesn’t exist so they could sell a “solution” that makes it harder for YOU to vote.      Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act.

@GonzaJA99 @RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 I read what Grok wrote. He didn’t reject the 197 over 5 years, he nuanced it.

@Zeeman6164 @RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 I did: There is no evidence that Obama “purged” 250 officers. It’s a number compiled by partisan sources that: •span multiple years •include routine retirements, resignations, reassignments, and disciplinary removals •mix different ranks, not just top generals

@RandomRambler15 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 Do your own research.

@Zeeman6164 @LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 Details, please.

@LongPlay1215 @Microinteracti1 12 years of blatant DEI and loyalty tests, 2008-2016 and 2020-2024.

@Zeeman6164 @Microinteracti1 When did that happen?

@JBlunt1018 It doesn’t take much experience to purge insanity

Sec Hegseth should be fired. Yes, he served, and that deserves respect. But he does not have the experience for this job. He went from a National Guard Major and a TV host to running the entire U.S. military, a multi-trillion dollar operation with global war responsibilities. He has zero senior command experience. Zero large-scale organizational leadership. Zero prior top-level national security role. And we’re in a live conflict with a country like Iran. This is not the time for on-the-job training. I truly hope POTUS is considering it.

@_InfoGram_ Why? Insubordinate DEI clowns.

🇺🇸Reporter: "How many generals have you fired?" 🇺🇸Hegseth: "I don't know the number" 🇺🇸Reporter: Oo You dont know the number?It's eight. Why did you fire them? 🇺🇸Hegseth: "At the pleasure of the president..." 🇺🇸Reporter: Stop "You can just tell me Why and you probably learned what 'why' means." 🇺🇸Hegseth: blah blah he...hoo.. ABSOLUTE BELT TREATMENT 🔥🔥😂