Patrick Claes
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So. Rutte is heading to Washington next week. The entire alliance, all 31 of them, is sitting at home staring at the phone. Praying. Hoping. Begging whatever God they still believe in that he doesn’t walk out of the Oval Office and say it again.
Big daddy.
Last time, grown men in Brussels had to lie down in a dark room. Defence ministers wept quietly.
Don’t say it, Mark. Whatever happens in there. Whatever face he makes.
Just f. Don’t!
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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US President Trump sparks widespread backlash in France after mocking Emmanuel Macron and his wife, drawing criticism from across the political spectrum. French officials, including opposition figures, condemn the remarks, while Macron calls them “neither elegant nor appropriate.” #France
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BREAKING: French General Michel Yakovleff tells Trump and his team to "stop sniffing coke" after they hatch an insane plot to seize Iran's uranium with a risky raid that would involve building a runway INSIDE of Iran.
Yakovleff really didn't hold back...
"I was a planner. I see a planner who tells me I have a great idea, chief, and then all you have to do is make a complete air base, etc," the general said of the proposed American plan during a TV appearance. "I say, you have to stop sniffing coke on the desk between your meetings. That's not possible. That's not possible!"
"You don't sniff coke in Brussels?" asked the other man on the panel.
"No, exactly. But here, I wonder... It's become so 'wow!' We are beyond science fiction. It's taking over to make an air base. It's Dien Bien Phu, if you want," Yakovleff said, referring to the disastrous 1954 battle between French forces and the Viet Minh in Vietnam. "The French have done it too. Do you want to see Dien Bien Phu? Go ahead. Enjoy."
The similarities between Trump's battle plan and Dien Bien Phu are striking. The French inserted soldiers into a basin deep within Viet Minh-controlled territory, established a fortified base, and were promptly surrounded and pummeled by the enemy. The French suffered over 12,400 casualties.
Yakovleff served as a three general in the French Army, as the commander of the French Foreign Legion, and in top positions in NATO. When he speaks on military issues, the world listens.
"In addition to that, it's to go and look for fluids that were buried following the bombing," he continued, referring to the uranium. "I mean, the bombings probably made the galleries collapse, etc. In other words, even the Iranians, if they want to go and look for them, they need mass engineering."
"They need builders. They need to recreate tunnels. They need to look for where the tunnels were before they collapsed to go and look for the stuff," he added. "So guys, even the Iranians, in peacetime, will take weeks or months to do this kind of excavation. So we don't see the Americans doing it. We're going to do it anyway. We're going to do it? Have fun, guys!
The reporting on the proposed plan does indeed suggest a massive logistical operation will be needed in addition to the strictly military one. Isfahan, where roughly half the uranium is stored, is roughly 300 miles inland inside Iran. Al Jazeera reports that American forces would need heavy equipment, including excavators, to dig it up. They'd have to transport all of that while under constant attack from Iranian rockets, missiles, drones, and ground forces.
Quite simply put, if Trump proceeds with this plan it will turn into one of the greatest military debacles in history. American troops will die in droves, all so that Israel can destabilize a regional enemy and continue its own territorial expansion.
Please ❤️ and share to demand an immediate end to the Iran War!
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🚨🇫🇷 BREAKING — Macron Mocks Trump:
“Perhaps He Should Not Speak Every Day”
He Said the Strait is open — ships were struck trying to transit it.
He Said the war would take 4-6 weeks — it’s Day 33 with no end.
He Said regime change occurred — Iran has a harder Supreme Leader.
He Declared victory 5 times in 13 seconds! — then announced Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure."
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🇺🇸🇫🇷 Macron on Trump:
“He talks too much and goes in every direction.
This is not a show.
When you are serious, you don’t say the opposite of what you said the day before.
Perhaps you don’t need to speak every day.”
Presidential shutdown.
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This feels like the first war in my lifetime where literally the whole world wants the U.S to lose.
Do we have any friends left?
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump commented on U.S. involvement in Ukraine: “We shouldn’t have gotten involved.”
“We’re spending billions. You know, we shouldn’t have gotten involved in Ukraine. Ukraine is thousands of miles away, across the ocean. We helped them.
We had a president — just a fool — who gave them $350 billion and got nothing in return, gave them so much money, spent so much ammunition.
Now we’re producing ammunition all across the country because we need it — because he gave so much to Ukraine and got nothing back. And I’m selling them ammunition. The European Union is paying for it,” Trump said.
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If Ukraine had actually received the “$350 billion” Trump talks about, its armed forces would have long ago carried out a “special operation” to “denazify” the Kremlin.
The United States did not “feed Ukraine.”
It was writing off outdated stockpiles, clearing warehouses, boosting its defense industry, and profiting from new production.
Ukraine, however, once gave the United States something truly priceless:
174 nuclear missiles and 1,700 warheads — trusting in “security guarantees.”
And now Trump says, “we shouldn’t have gotten involved in Ukraine.”
Translated from political language into plain terms:
America wants to be trusted — but doesn’t want to be held accountable for its own word.
And this is no longer a catastrophe for Kyiv.
It’s a catastrophe for America itself.
Because after this lesson, the world will remember one thing:
Only those who don’t yet understand how the world works give up nuclear weapons.
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🚨HOLY SMOKES:
Reporter to Starmer: “Trump says the US won’t back the UK anymore. How seriously do you take that threat?”
Starmer: “It won’t change my position. I serve the British national interest. Whatever the noise.”
Whatever the noise. Trump is an international embarrassment.
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Total NATO defense spending (2025):
United States: $980,000,000,000
Europe + Canada: $512,337,000,000
That’s not an alliance. That’s a subsidy.
President Trump is right. NATO allies can't keep treating American taxpayers like their personal ATM!
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🇪🇺🇺🇸 Politico: A closed meeting of leaders of about 10 European countries took place in Helsinki over Washington's possible withdrawal from NATO.
✅ They discussed a new security system in case the US refuses to participate in NATO.
✅ America covers about 70% of all NATO expenses. Without it, the Alliance almost loses its key capabilities - aviation, air defense, intelligence and nuclear deterrence.
✅ Most EU countries have not added money to their armies for years. Only some states meet the norm of 2% of GDP on defense.
✅ Iran became a point of conflict, because Europe does not want to participate in the US war in the Middle East.
✅ The closed conference in Helsinki discussed the creation of independent EU military forces.
✅ If the US distances itself from NATO, this could weaken Russia's deterrence.
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Trump bespot Macron tijdens besloten lunch - imiteert zijn accent en noemt de NAVO een 'papieren tijger.' En eerlijk? Hij heeft een punt. De Fransen willen pas meedoen als de oorlog al gewonnen is. Typisch: Europa verwacht dat Amerika alles oplost, maar weigert zelf ook maar iets te doen.
dagelijksestandaard.nl/nieuws/trump-b…
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump: We didn’t have to go into Ukraine. Ukraine’s thousands of miles away across the ocean.
We had a president who’s a stupid individual. Gave them $350 billion. Got nothing for it. Gave them so much money, used so much ammunition.
We’re making ammunition all over the place because we need it because he gave so much away to Ukraine.
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@StateDept And why/because of who, is the Strait of Hormuz closed?
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SECRETARY RUBIO: For all these countries that like to talk about international law, it’s a violation of maritime law to impede the free flow of travel in international waters.
The Strait of Hormuz is international waters, so Iran’s actions to impede commercial traffic are illegal.
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❗️“We shouldn’t have gotten involved in Ukraine,” — Trump
According to him, the United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on aid to Ukraine, but “got nothing in return.”
“We had a president — just a fool: he gave them 350 billion dollars, getting nothing in return, gave them so much money, spent so many munitions.”
Trump stated that the United States is no longer giving away ammunition, but is now selling it, and Europe is paying for it. He also criticized NATO, saying that the Alliance “behaved badly” toward the United States.
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Rahm Emanuel had one question: does Trump know friend from foe?
As a Russian tanker steamed toward Cuba, he framed it as a test. Would Trump be tough and stop it, or roll over like a dog in heat?
Trump chose the latter.
The sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin docked at Matanzas on March 31, carrying 730,000 barrels of oil.  Trump said he had “no problem” with it.  The Kremlin confirmed the whole thing had been coordinated with Washington in advance.

While Trump was coordinating with Moscow, Cuba was going dark. Not metaphorically. Literally. Hospitals running on fumes, ventilators cutting out mid-shift, operating theaters shutting down because there was no power to keep the lights on. Families cooking over open fires. Children doing homework by candlelight, if they had candles. Buses that didn’t come. Food that rotted. Old people sitting alone in the heat with no fans, no fridges, no phone charge, no way to call for help.
This was Trump’s blockade. His stated purpose: regime change. His actual achievement: punishing ten million people who had nothing to do with any regime.
And then, the moment Putin sent a tanker, Trump folded. No fight. No principle. No attempt to extract anything in return. Just a shrug on Air Force One and a “no problem.”
Months of Cuban suffering. One Russian phone call. That’s the exchange rate.
Putin didn’t break through anything. He knocked politely, and the man who built the wall opened the door, wagged his tail, and asked if there was anything else he could do.
Friend or foe, Donald. It really isn’t that complicated.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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The White House has removed this video from their social media channels.
But not before we could post it.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, all these people, we're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things
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Congratulations—this guy just won the internet today.
You have to see this. 🙌🙌🙌
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🚨 BREAKING: NATO SecGen MARK RUTTE will travel to meet President Trump in Washington next week — WSJ
This comes as Trump has been VERY tough on useless NATO allies not pulling their weight
Rutte KNOWS Trump means business and has told off Europe thinking they're ANYTHING without the US:
"If anyone thinks here that the European Union or Europe can defend itself without the US, KEEP ON DREAMING! YOU CAN'T! We can't!"
"Europe — if you REALLY want to go it alone, and those of you who are planning for that, FORGET that you can ever get there with 5% [GDP for defense spending]. It will be 10%! You have to build up your own nuclear capability!"
"That costs billions and billions of euros. You will lose them. In that scenario, you would lose the ultimate guarantor of our freedom, which is the U.S. nuclear umbrella. So, hey, good luck!"
Time for our allies to pull their weight!
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🚨 NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED NATO ACTUALLY IS RIGHT NOW.
In the last 72 hours, watch who walked away:
🇫🇷 France: Blocked US military overflight for weapons to Israel — FIRST TIME since war began Feb 28. Israel cut ALL defense procurement from France.
🇮🇹 Italy: Denied Sigonella air base landing to US bombers. Defense Minister said relations are "solid and loyal." DAYS after blocking US planes.
🇪🇸 Spain: Closed ENTIRE airspace to US operations. Blocked Naval Station Rota AND Morón Air Base. PM Sánchez called it "not NATO collective defense."
🇵🇱 Poland: Refused to redeploy Patriot batteries. US burned through 1,200+ interceptors in 16 days. Poland said no.
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Denied 2 US reconnaissance flights. Suspended $120,000,000 in weapons exports under "neutrality laws."
🇬🇧 UK: PM said "this is not our war." Trump told them to "build up some delayed courage."
🇩🇪 Germany: President Steinmeier called war "possibly illegal." WHILE hosting Ramstein — largest US base outside America.
That is: France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, UK, and Germany.
All in ONE week.
When this many allies abandon you at once, it's not a disagreement.
It's a collapse.
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