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Since 1 April we have the new rule here in Germany that petrol stations can only raise prices once per day at 12pm. Now all the stations just enact massive price increases at noon. The Agip near me jacked diesel up to 2.47 Euros/litre just after 12 – nearly $11/gallon.

The fact that people don’t understand why America would risk $300 million in equipment and lives to save a downed pilot is exactly why a passport or a shitty liberal degree doesn’t mean you are truly American.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

Literally every European male feeling realizing their military would sacrifice men for equipment instead of equipment for men.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaking about Tuesday’s ultimatum with Iran during this morning’s event celebrating Easter at the White House: “We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we're obliterating it. They just don't want to say ‘uncle.’ They don't want to cry as the expression goes ‘uncle,’ but they will. And if they don't, They'll have no bridges. They'll have no power plants. They'll have no anything. I won't go further because there are other things that are worse than those two. And we might have, well, the thing, if I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I'd take the oil. I'd keep the oil. I would make plenty of money.“

Jolani gave Zelenskyy the full royal treatment in Damascus.

Imagine if European shitlibs ever get into another serious war. "I'm stuck behind enemy lines, please help!" "No, what if our plane gets damaged"

The massacre of Russia's air defence visualised. Ukraine's drone units have struck 85 SAM systems or "complex radars" in 2026. This is a 240% increase on the previous 3 months and is almost certainly why we're seeing more success from Ukraine's long-range strikes.

There's something really tragic about watching old footage of England and realising your entire civilisation has been stolen from you.

Here is the airstrip spot, per the same source, who says no airfield was built. “Just seems like the U.S. military saw a straight line of road of about 3,000 meters and figured it could be a decent place to land C-130s. But then they got stuck and they looked around the area for a farm tractor to potentially pull out the aircraft.” It was then they sent 3 C-295s (not Dash-8s as originally given above).

We Japanese witnessed this more than half a century ago when we fought against the Americans. When one of their military aircraft was shot down and the pilot found himself adrift alone in the vast Pacific, they did not hesitate to send out a Catalina flying boat to search for him and rescue him, despite the risk of being shot down themselves. We were not capable of doing that. And so we were defeated. In that sense, the Americans have not changed at all since those days. That is precisely what makes them America.

You're European and poor. You wouldn't get it.

The United Arab Emirates are a better American ally than the United Kingdom. Think about that for a moment.