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Rickey Rantle

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Rickey Rantle
Rickey Rantle@feb2ndday·
@Omugaragwa123 @USronaldcarter Trump was a fucking asshole way before he was president. That's not the problem. You dumbasses elected this fucking asshole for president. That's the problem.
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🇺🇸 Ronald Carter
🇺🇸 Ronald Carter@USronaldcarter·
🚨 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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Rickey Rantle
Rickey Rantle@feb2ndday·
@USronaldcarter Trump knows he's fucked. He's sending soldiers into Iran to die for his fucking ego trip that he's trying to justify with his incoherent bullshit. He will escalate the war because he can't admit that he's a failure.
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🇺🇸 Ronald Carter
🇺🇸 Ronald Carter@USronaldcarter·
🚨 Let me explain what Iran is actually doing right now and why the Pentagon should be terrified.. > the IRGC is moving military bases, intelligence centers, and missile platforms INTO Kurdish border villages > they're transporting medium-range missiles and drones in containers.. at night > after the IDF destroyed their Ground Forces base in Tehran.. they switched to mobile command centers they're not retreating.. they're dispersing.. here's the part that should terrify every military planner alive.. Iran has an 8-layer ground defense system: > forward early-warning units > electronic warfare disruption > anti-armor and anti-air perimeter > IRGC infantry defense corridors > urban warfare integration — cities as fortresses > tunnel networks and underground command > asymmetric guerrilla fallback > popular mobilization — a "million-strong sea" of the Iranian nation 12,300+ targets have been destroyed since Operation Epic Fury began.. and they haven't even touched the ground defense network.. the US air campaign didn't degrade Iran's ability to fight a ground war.. it just guaranteed they'd have to find out the hard way..
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Rickey Rantle
Rickey Rantle@feb2ndday·
Nope. Grok- The claim is false. The post asserts that the U.S. has been "dragged into EVERY damned European conflict for decades because of that USELESS alliance" (NATO). This is the opposite of the historical record. NATO has never forced or "dragged" the United States into any war—European or otherwise—and it has never invoked its collective-defense clause (Article 5) against the U.S. or to compel U.S. participation in unwanted fights. Key facts that directly refute it NATO cannot "drag" the U.S. into anything. All major NATO decisions, including military operations, require unanimous consensus among members. The U.S. has an effective veto. No ally can force Washington to act if it doesn't want to. This has been true since the alliance was founded in 1949. Article 5 (the "attack on one is an attack on all" clause) has been invoked exactly once in NATO's 77-year history—after the 9/11 attacks on the United States. European allies came to America's aid, not the other way around. NATO aircraft patrolled U.S. airspace and later took command of the Afghanistan mission at U.S. request. It was Europe supporting the U.S., not the U.S. being pulled in unwillingly. NATO has never started a war or forced the U.S. into one. Its operations (Bosnia 1995, Kosovo 1999, Afghanistan 2001 onward, Libya 2011) were responses to ongoing crises or U.S.-led initiatives. The U.S. government at the time chose to participate or lead them. Critics of those interventions can argue they were unwise, but they weren't imposed on an unwilling America by NATO allies. The U.S. has fought plenty of wars completely outside NATO. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (2003), and others had zero NATO involvement or even active opposition from some allies (e.g., France and Germany opposed the 2003 Iraq War). If NATO were "dragging" the U.S. into every conflict, those wouldn't have happened without it. On "useless" NATO's core job during the Cold War was deterring Soviet invasion of Western Europe. It succeeded—no NATO member was attacked by the USSR, and Western Europe avoided another continent-wide war. Post-Cold War, it stabilized the Balkans (preventing wider genocide and refugee crises) and provided a ready-made coalition framework for U.S. priorities. Whether you think the U.S. gets its money's worth or that Europe free-rides on American spending is a legitimate debate, but calling it "useless" ignores decades of successful deterrence and burden-sharing in U.S.-led missions. The person who replied to the post in the same thread put it bluntly: "Name 1 time NATO pulled you into a conflict. Just one." There isn't one, which is why the claim falls apart. The U.S. has used NATO as a tool for its own strategic interests far more often than the reverse. The "dragged into every European conflict" line is a common talking point in some circles, but it doesn't match the documented history.
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Seán Gatton
Seán Gatton@SeanGatton·
@feb2ndday @USronaldcarter Wrong dude. Just plain wrong. We have been dragged into EVERY damned European conflict for decades because of that USELESS alliance. If you don't know that, come back when your balls drop. Retard.
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HuntedAngel
HuntedAngel@HuntedAngel1·
@feb2ndday @USronaldcarter At the beginning of new presidency, he started good, but then he began with wars, just like every US president, instead of staying out of it & mediating. The masterminds manipulated him quite a bit if he thought that the USA/Israel could quickly conquer Iran. And the end see we.
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@MysterySolvent
@MysterySolvent@MysterySolvents·
What was under Trump’s jacket!!
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Rickey Rantle
Rickey Rantle@feb2ndday·
Trump doesn't give two fucks about what the US pays to NATO. He's pissed off because he hasn't figured out how he personally can grift off the European allies to enrich himself. When he can make money off of leaving NATO, when he can extort them to make himself or his buddies richer, that's when he'll do it. Otherwise it's nothing but his same old bullshit.
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blargh
blargh@blargh373362·
@feb2ndday @USronaldcarter Sounds good, can we leave NATO then and wash our hands of Ukraine? Not our war etc. etc. Seems fair.
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Rickey Rantle
Rickey Rantle@feb2ndday·
Trump doesn't give two fucks about what the US pays to NATO. He's pissed off because he hasn't figured out how he personally can grift off the European allies to enrich himself. When he can make money off of leaving NATO, when he can extort them to make himself or his buddies richer, that's when he'll do it. Otherwise it's nothing but his same old bullshit.
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Rickey Rantle
Rickey Rantle@feb2ndday·
@RonFilipkowski The world says, "We ain't changing Trump's shitty diapers. He can sit there and smell like ass for the next 3 years. See how that works out for him."
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Ron Filipkowski
Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski·
Basically Trump decided to cause chaos, mayhem, death, destruction, disruption, dissension, depletion of resources, & decades of hatred and mistrust from friends and foe in the Middle East and beyond, then walk away while telling the world he expects them to clean up his mess.
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Rickey Rantle
Rickey Rantle@feb2ndday·
Another shit-for-brains ✔️ Confirmed Grok- The claim is false. The US does not pay over 60% of NATO. It contributes roughly 16% (or slightly less) to NATO’s actual common funded budgets—the only money that directly “pays for NATO” as an organization.48ae92 Here’s the clear breakdown (using the latest official NATO figures): NATO’s common funded budgets (civil budget + military budget + NATO Security Investment Programme) total only about $3.5–4 billion per year. These cover shared headquarters, command structure, joint programs, infrastructure, etc. US share: 15.88% through the end of 2025, dropping to 14.90% starting January 2026 (capped at the same level as Germany, the next-largest contributor). That works out to roughly $570–770 million annually from the US—less than 0.1% of the total US defense budget.2b1c3f This is confirmed directly on NATO’s own website and in multiple fact-checks. The US is the single largest contributor to these budgets, but it is nowhere near 60%.7b460f Where the “60%+” number comes from (and why it’s misleading): People sometimes look at total defense spending by all NATO members combined (each country’s own military budget). In the latest 2025 estimates: Total NATO-wide defense spending ≈ $1.59 trillion. US defense spending ≈ $980 billion (≈ 62% of the alliance total).ca925e This is not “paying for NATO.” The vast majority of US defense spending is for America’s own global military (bases worldwide, Pacific operations, nuclear forces, etc.), not direct funding to NATO allies or NATO operations. European/Canadian allies’ spending is almost entirely on their own national forces in Europe. NATO itself has repeatedly said this aggregate figure is not a measure of who “pays for NATO.”a14e56 This confusion has been debunked for years by Reuters, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, the Atlantic Council, and NATO’s own public data. Claims that the US pays “70%,” “two-thirds,” or “most” of NATO almost always mash these two completely different numbers together. Bottom line: The poster’s claim (“The US pays for over 60% of NATO”) is the classic misleading statistic. The US does shoulder the largest share of the alliance’s collective military power, but it does not bankroll NATO itself at anything close to 60%. NATO’s actual operating budget is funded far more evenly, with the US at ~16%. The rest is individual countries paying for their own defenses.
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Brett Meiselas
Brett Meiselas@BMeiselas·
This is objectively just a very low energy, bizarre, speech with no real purpose. More lies about the war. More threats of committing war crimes. Lots of slurring. Just weird.
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Jo
Jo@JoJoFromJerz·
In honor of April Fool’s Day, a reminder to all the MAGA shidiots who told me to “cry harder” after the 2024 election… He promised you no more foreign wars and now we’re putting boots on the ground in Iran. He promised you $2.00 gas, it’s now over $4. He promised you tariff checks that never came, lower grocery prices that have since gone up, and millions of Epstein files he never released. He fooled you all because you wanted to believe a pathological liar conman felon gave a shit about you, when he never has and never will. So, today, I lift a glass filled to the brim with your salty tears and I say, cry harder stupids. Cry. Fucking. Harder.
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