Mark Meyers 💛 🇺🇦 💙
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Het Stadhuis van Veere is een laat‑gotisch gebouw uit de 15e eeuw, bekend om zijn rijke geschiedenis en indrukwekkende gevel. Het diende als centrum van bestuur en rechtspraak en herbergt vandaag de dag het museum van Veere met historische collecties. 1/3
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@RomboutLuc Ongepantserd, dubbel zoveel bemanning (13) en zelfde dracht (30km RAP) als M109 familie. Uitgebreidere variatie Mun voor 155mm. M110 tactische nucleaire capaciteit.
We hadden meer in MKs moeten houden, natuurlijk. Dan had UA gratis kunnen komen shoppen.
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Of course.
🇧🇪 Army had the M110 - a 203mm artillery piece on tracked chassis - simple to maintain or to put into mobilisation reserve.
🇧🇪 Military - of course - did not.
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Mark Meyers 💛 🇺🇦 💙 retweetledi
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
MAG🔫1775🇺🇸@realMAG1775
100,000 troops in Europe. Zero help on Hormuz. Bring them home now. No more free rides.
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@WhidbeyAV8 @RAF_Luton You're very much the "one wrong-way driver? there must be hundreds!" kind of person.
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@RAF_Luton The RAF doesn't even know which aircraft they fly 🤣
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Photo of the Day: The F22s of the Red Arrows perform a flypast over The Big Tesco in Watford (Middlesex) in their famous Wobbly Line formation to mark the start of #EasterBreak Sale
Photographed from a Canberra
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Mark Meyers 💛 🇺🇦 💙 retweetledi
No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making.
You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.
You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels.
Take your time. We will wait.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Kurt Schlichter@KurtSchlichter
The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America. The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation. The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.” Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.
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@BiankaB12 @vtchakarova All the evidence points to an eternal 48hrs as opposed to the eternal "in two weeks".
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@RAF_Luton A stealthy demonstration team can save billions and billions of pounds. Even up to 80.085 billion or more.
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@PixelPlatoon80 Ze gaat precies wel naar de juiste kapper.
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Marginaal.
x.com/RpsAgainstTrum…
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Fox News reports that among the people on the shortlist to replace Pam Bondi as AG are Jeanine Pirro and Alina Habba. Habba, a former Trump attorney and former U.S. attorney for New Jersey who was disqualified by a judge, appears to have launched a campaign for the job. Yesterday she posted a photo of herself with Donald Trump and JD Vance in the Oval Office, writing: “Always an honor 🇺🇸” No idea who the next AG will be, but they’ll probably be worse than Pam Bondi.
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@WD4963 @SammyMahdi Er wordt met geld gesmeten? Da's waarschijnlijk bij gebrek aan kogels, missiles en granaten.
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Mark Meyers 💛 🇺🇦 💙 retweetledi
@jdceulaer Links en rechts zijn hooguit relatieve locaties. Als ze nu nog als voorgemixte kruidenmengeling gaan opgelegd worden, blijven er niet veel politieke smaakmakers meer over.
Kunnen we het terug over weloverwogen standpunten en inzichten hebben?
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Op Bluesky noemt men mij kennelijk al "populistisch rechts". Ik zal u eens iets zeggen: ik ben linkser dan al die nieuwerwetse neplinkse wetenschapsontkenners bij elkaar opgeteld - écht links.
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@buitengebieden The submarine component of the battlegroup is not ready yet.
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@ve96359 @arthistorynews @ulrichspeck You bleed red like the rest of us. If you think otherwise, you're in a cult.
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@arthistorynews @chirpingMark @ulrichspeck Dude, you can pretend all you want. I bleed red, white and blue.
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Ukraine needs a strong Nato -- the only real life insurance against an imperialist, aggressive Russia.
West Europeans should think twice before carelessly throwing the transatlantic security relationship under the bus.
Dzis Maksym@DzisMaksym
🇺🇦 Ukraine's envoy to NATO: "Instead of talking about the collapse of NATO, I would rather talk about rethinking the Alliance." She argues that "paradoxically", these troubles could open up more opportunities for Ukraine's integration into the Alliance, which, she says, will help NATO become "much more effective, lethal, innovative and capable of confronting the Russian threat."
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@ve96359 @arthistorynews @ulrichspeck 1. No, it's a power multiplier
2. No. Burrying the child molesting files &starting forever wars is the exact opposite
3-5 MAGA morons are not the American people. US citizens make up 33% of Americans. Most. of the world is very concerned about the US debacles & US civil rights
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@chirpingMark @arthistorynews @ulrichspeck NATO is useless to USA. Trump is doing what he was elected to do. The American people don’t want NATO. The idea of Americans fighting for Europeans is repugnant to Americans. Your understanding of the American people is badly misinformed.
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@arthistorynews @ulrichspeck Not even a single US president except for the current complete fool.
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@ulrichspeck Which leader do you see saying NATO is a waste of space and a paper tiger? Not a single European one.
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@klaasm67 Da's kabouter Smul zonder baard! Plopperdeplop, die Verhulstjes hebben toch overal een vinger in de pap!
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Boomers on Facebook getting duped by AI slop
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