The Good the Bad and the Ugly

@potato_fight @MsMelChen Remember the war in Bosnia. The EU asked the US to get involved. No threat to the US no attack on a NATO member. Yet involvement was required because it was in European soil. The US came to the rescue and ended that war.

NATO is a defensive pact - not offensive. Your entire argument just dismisses key points about this arrangement and the fact that Trump hit Iran thinking it would be an easy takedown and FAILED. Now he’s trying for other countries to foot the bill of his failure. Why should they risk lives and money for such a foolish decision, THAT THEY WEFE NEVER CONSULTED ON IN THE First place.

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

@bachmakov @RodKahx And Canada will resemble India.

@RodKahx Don’t worry about them. America is undergoing major demographic changes. In 50 years it will resemble another Latin American country — large but “right-sized,” with good food and a healthier relationship with the world around it. Pride is what leads people and countries to rot.

Our moon. The average US citizen in a nutshell.

@RasmusJarlov Still. Do you remember the civil war in Bosnia. That was a European problem that was not an attack on NATO. Yet the EU leaders at the time asked the US for help. The US got involved militarily and helped end the war.

If the USA does not intend to honour the obligation to defend NATO because European countries dont join an offensive war of choice against Iran that we have absolutely no obligation to join, the USA membership of NATO is already worthless. The NATO oath to defend each other is unconditional. If you dont intend to honour it because you are offended about disagreements that have nothing to do with the treaty obligation that you have sworn to uphold, your are not a realiable ally. Tresties with you are worthless and your word means nothing. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case for the USA.

@GodlyMessage333 @NaomiSeibt The first and second amendment do not change because of who becomes president.

@NaomiSeibt What if you get asylum and then the next US president turns out to be a Democrat? 🤣You’ll just be trapped among woke supporters again

🇩🇪🇺🇸 SEEKING ASYLUM: HOW FREEDOM IN THE U.S. CHANGED ME I applied for asylum in the U.S. after years of intelligence surveillance, government persecution and ANTIFA threats. The freedom to speak the truth made me BRAVER To fight for Western civilization. You can be put on trial for posting MEMES and mocking politicians in Germany, as @Deu_Kurier editor David Bendels has experienced. Watch the full interview at @TRobinsonNewEra!

🇮🇷 Islamic Republic: Our goal from the beginning was to build the nuclear bomb Former Director of the Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent: Iran didn’t want the bomb The deep state liberals continue to get exposed.

@FurkanGozukara Sure. the US will pay with Tomahawks.

Brilliant move by Iran. They are planning to levy a 10% toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. This will generate $73 billion a year, completely offsetting US sanctions and paying for war damages. Checkmate.

@FredJon41882468 @unseen1_unseen Neither is Ukraine

@unseen1_unseen Neither Israel nor Iran are NATO members. NATO is supposed to come to the defense of a NATO member if they are attacked

Nato is falling right into Trump's trap. I didn't think they would be this stupid but here we are. Nothing like showing the world that the US doesnt need them.

@GusanoDelBarrio youtu.be/TX19QDinse0?si…

Sígueme si quieres ver de primera mano, la caída del comunismo en Cuba

@nexus2040124882 @liberiudiciorum Www is a protocol. The actual internet was invented in the USA. Every WWW address is tied to a real IP address that is the backbone of networking and the internet.

@liberiudiciorum Y eso que Internet se inventó en Inglaterra

¿Qué ha hecho EEUU por nosotros aparte de crear internet, las plataformas de tv que vemos, las películas, las redes sociales, los vaqueros, Disney por el que conocemos los cuentos de nuestra propia cultura, el GPS, las bombillas, los ordenadores, el jazz, el rock, el tratamiento del VIH, las vacunas contra el sarampión, paperas, rubéola, varicela, hepatitis, meningitis, polio, liberar y proteger a Europa en la I y la II Guerra Mundial, en la Guerra Fría… ? Aparte de eso, ¿qué ha hecho Estados Unidos por nosotros?

A must listen on Iran, an IRGC’s daughter’s perspective. It helps us to understand what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against.

El cubano Wilmer Toledo interviene en el plenario del ayuntamiento de Zaragoza donde se discutía una moción para condenar “el bloqueo “ de EEUU. No le quito ni una coma a su intervención.

@vanbar62 @PolitlcsUK @Telegraph

@PolitlcsUK @Telegraph America never came when Argentina invaded the Falklands a British territory they never gave us an aircraft carrier. They never gave us a ship. They ever give us an aircraft. They never put a no fly zone over the Falklands to stop the Argentinians sinking seven British warships.

🚨 NEW: Donald Trump says Keir Starmer took “far too long” to give the US access to British bases “That’s probably never happened between our countries before… we were very disappointed in Keir” [@Telegraph]

@Onverklaarbaar_ @tedkel It was UK intelligence that provided the US with “evidence” that Iraq had WMDs

The long-term repercussions of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's actions over the last couple of days will be that the US will never trust the UK again. The security and intelligence alliance between the US and the UK was already terribly damaged. But denying the use of Diego Garcia, which allows planes to fly direct to Iran without entering another country's airspace, and to also inform Mauritius of America's operational plans beforehand, has taken the relationship to the woodshed.

@Ollie_Vargas_ Sure. That is why close to 3 million Cubans left Cuba.

The Cuban revolution never lost the support of the people, despite sanctions and billions in US funding, there was never a color revolution or any movement large enough to internally sabotage the nation. The people never surrendered their independence to the colonizers.

@Emmet917045 @mean_field_zane Are you that jealous? You are a piece of shit.💩

@mean_field_zane it is full of miami cuban batista fascists. the cubans are pure assholes. all of them.

Miami is genuinely the sleaziest, most air-headed city I’ve ever been to… at least Vegas has poker.

@BraddrofliT The 19 officials called you so that you could post here. Very nice of them to keep you informed of current world affairs.

Officials from 19 countries say their governments are now ignoring Donald Trump's increasingly desperate calls for trade deals, saying that they'll pause all deals with the US until they get a real president

@shaunrein It’s the opposite. The US is de-risking from the rest of the world.

My fellow Americans don't seem to realize the rest of the world is de-risking from us, not China

@Toni_El_Amable @CapitanBitcoin Out of 195 countries only the United States has not officially trade with Cuba. There is no blockade.

@CapitanBitcoin No,cuba está así y cada vez peor por todos los bloqueos económicos y multas que tiene xd

🚨 Español: no te olvides NUNCA de que Cuba fue parte de España por 4 siglos. Y ahora es una isla CÁRCEL sometida a una dictadura que parte del gobierno de tu país DEFIENDE. x.com/InesBetancur1/…

@joab121997 @andres20ad Include the intentional separation of families and imprisonment of its people for speaking against the government. Constant harassment and scarcity of food. The system can only stay in power because of repression.

En serio? Vamos a los hechos reales, sin verso, ché: Cuba, desde 1959, el régimen castrista apoyó y financió terrorismo global (ETA, IRA, FARC, ELN, sandinistas, etc.). Envió tropas a África (Angola, Etiopía) para guerras soviéticas, puso misiles nucleares soviéticos en 1962 que casi provocan la Tercera Guerra Mundial, y hasta hoy alberga a prófugos de la justicia estadounidense (como Joanne Chesimard, asesina de policías). No es “nada”: es agresión constante y apoyo a enemigos de EE.UU. Venezuela,bajo Chávez y Maduro, se convirtió en narcoestado (Cártel de los Soles) que inunda EE.UU. y Europa con cocaína y fentanilo. Maduro financió a las FARC, dio refugio a terroristas, y su régimen usó el petróleo para comprar lealtades en la región y mantener dictaduras. Eso no es “nada”: es narcoterrorismo que mata miles de estadounidenses cada año. EE.UU. no “invadió ni bombardeó” a Venezuela. - Cuba tiene un embargo comercial y comercia con el 90% del mundo. - Venezuela: sanciones selectivas contra funcionarios y empresas corruptas por narcotráfico y represión, no es invasión. La captura de Maduro fue una operación quirúrgica de justicia, no un bombardeo masivo. Las economías no se “destruyeron” por las sanciones: se destruyeron por el socialismo. - Cuba: expropió todo en 1960 y destruyó la producción privada. - Venezuela: nacionalizó PDVSA y la dejó en ruinas (de 3 millones de barriles diarios a menos de 800.000). Las sanciones llegaron después del colapso, no lo causaron. Si aún no te das cuenta de quién actúa mal, estás mal de la cabeza: el régimen que esclaviza a su pueblo 66 años, exporta médicos como mercancía, reprime las protestas a tiros y mantiene a la gente en miseria eterna mientras la élite vive en mansiones.

Cuba y Venezuela no le han hecho nada a EEUU, absolutamente nada. Pero EEUU los ha invadido, bombardeado, complotado para derrocar a sus gobiernos y ha destruido sus economías con bloqueos y sanciones. Si aún no te das cuenta de quién está actuando mal, estás mal de la cabeza.

@BraddrofliT I have done some stupid things in my life, but voting for Trump is not one of them.

I’ve done some stupid things in my life, but at least I never voted for Trump.