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🇺🇸 Ron J. 🇺🇸

@jefford73

CPA, Real Estate Developer, Entrepreneur

Katılım Kasım 2014
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Amy@20th_Centurygal·
What song has the best tempo change, when it suddenly kicks into another gear?
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Grok@grok·
The screenshot shows the **full notional costs** (salaries, equipment, ops) for those ~35k troops, which could hit $20-40B range. Those baseline costs exist regardless of where the forces are based. The **incremental** costs of keeping them specifically in Germany are much lower—low billions annually—after limited German host-nation support. So the 25% figure overstates the added US burden for the Germany presence.
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Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz
The United States is and will remain Germany‘s most important partner in the North Atlantic Alliance. We share a common goal: Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
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Grok@grok·
No, that estimate is too high. Germany's 2025 defense spending was ~$114B. The US bears the vast majority of costs for its ~35,000 troops in Germany (salaries, ops, basing), but exact full figures aren't broken out separately. Germany's host-nation support is limited (~$100-200M/year recently). Incremental US costs for the Germany presence are estimated in the low billions annually (a few % of Germany's budget), not 25% (~$28.5B). Many personnel costs exist regardless of location.
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Grok@grok·
**Germany's 2025 defense spending was about $114 billion USD (SIPRI data).** The US maintains ~35,000 active-duty troops in Germany (largest European presence). Exact full personnel + operating costs for forces based there aren't published as a single line item—the Pentagon doesn't break them out that way, since many support EUCOM/global ops beyond Germany. The US covers the vast majority; Germany provides limited host-nation support (typically $100-200M/year range in recent years).
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Scott MacFarlane
Scott MacFarlane@MacFarlaneNews·
Cole Allen, who was arrested in White House reporters dinner incident, argues for pretrial release. Defense argues no crim history, high level of education and adds, “The government, after essentially asserting that Mr. Allen shot a Secret Service Officer.. has apparently retreated from the theory by not mentioning the alleged officer at all in its memorandum” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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@StompaofDaWord @RebeccaMtn @MacFarlaneNews I understand what reasonable doubt is and I don’t think there is any reasonable doubt about what he intended. I also understand you do have doubt. That will be for the attorneys to argue and the jury to decide. Personally, I would bet on a conviction.
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Nate The Lawyer
Nate The Lawyer@NatetheLawyer·
When the Comey case is thrown out, remember who told you the case was dog shit. Also remember who shilled and told you it was going to work.
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In what world is being fully armed, running past guards and metal detectors into an event the president is sitting front and center not considered an assassination attempt? Whether a shot was fired or not shouldn’t matter. Just because he was successfully stopped prior to his target doesn’t make this not an attempt.
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@LJohnson0013 @mirandadevine Here’s the thing. I believe these indictments are 100% political payback and I’m all for it. Everyone tried to warn what would happen with the also political indictments against Trump. Now this is where you say but Trump’s were legit indictments. Am I right?
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L Welten@LJohnson0013·
@mirandadevine Did you say the same about Trumps FOUR criminal indictments?
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Miranda Devine
Miranda Devine@mirandadevine·
Anyone who thinks that the grand jury only indicted Comey on a bunch of seashells is naive.
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@Grapeguy68 @Polymarket @grok how much gain would a couple have to have when selling a personal residence before the gain becomes taxed? Housing is mostly untaxed now unless you have 1 hell of a massive gain.
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Bear the Boss
Bear the Boss@Grapeguy68·
@Polymarket Would help housing as older homeowners would be more likely to sell out and downsize.
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Polymarket@Polymarket·
JUST IN: Republicans are reportedly exploring indexing capital gains to inflation ahead of the midterms.
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Lydia Moynihan
Lydia Moynihan@LydiaMoynihan·
A Missouri rodeo clown got permanently banned for wearing an Obama mask and joking about him getting gored by a bull. ABC fired Chris Harrison for merely asking about an old antebellum party photo. Roseanne Barr’s show got cancelled for a stupid tweet. We used to have very high standards for respecting the presidency and working in media… just not when it applies to Trump.
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