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@arizman2 @mossadeghsghost @KenRoth America's overseas bases are not charity for foreigners. They serve US interests to project world power and dominance.

When Germany relies on the US expending vast sums of tax dollars to support US military bases in Germany, to protect Germany while Germany spends very little itself on its military, to protect itself from the Putin, and Trump asks Germany to assist in protecting the planet from the Ayatollah and the Germany says no, Should the Trump evaluate its position? or should the Trump make like Kisinger, bend over and shrug it off.

Germany has allowed Trump to launch attacks on Iran from bases inside Germany and let injured Americans be treated in a major American hospital on German soil, but thin-skinned Trump pulls 5,000 troops from Germany anyway over Merz’s criticism of his war. trib.al/VcxdbqM

@JacobGoinBrazy @F1 Rubbish. He's remembered far more than most F1 fatalities of higher stature, precisely because he preceded Senna. Paletti and De Angelis aren't remembered like he is every year. Neither is Ronnie Peterson.

@F1 took you guys about 20 years to remember him consistently

Remembering Roland Ratzenberger Forever in our thoughts ❤️🤍

@AnonPlzX @TRobinsonNewEra Well, Russia started the war. And here's the Russian army: x.com/i/status/20499…

@TRobinsonNewEra I'm convinced the entire purpose of the Ukraine war is to purge eastern Europe of white people and replace them with African migrants. And even if you try to escape the region they will find you...

A rejected "asylum seeker" who shoved a teenage girl to her death under a train in front of her horrified grandad has avoided jail! Liana K, 16, who fled Ukraine for safety, was pushed on the tracks in Germany by an invader who has dodged prison and instead been sent to psychiatric care! The youngster had been speaking with her grandad at Friedland station in August when Muhammed A, 31, from Iraq, forced her in front of a train.

@visegrad24 The Christian heroes who fought Islamic invaders at the Battle of Vienna must be spinning in their graves.

41% of children in Vienna's elementary and middle schools are Muslim.

@GKK239 @clashreport Not one American has died defending the rest of NATO. And those US bases in Europe are not charity either - they uphold America's global dominance and strategic interests. The days of Europeans spending hundreds of billions per year on US tech and defense are over thanks to Trump

I'm not sure about China, but as far as the US and Russia are concerned, Europe absolutely deserves this moment. For decades you’ve happily used American blood, treasure, and military umbrella through NATO while giving the US almost nothing in return when we needed real support. You hide behind our protection, then lecture us and stab us in the back the moment it’s politically convenient. Now you’re fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, flooding your own continent with mass migration and covering for the Islamization of Europe, all while turning yourselves into active enemies of both the United States and Israel. Cowards and capitulators. When real leadership and loyalty were required, you chose weakness, betrayal, and short-term political correctness instead. Macron is right about one thing — this is a unique moment. Europeans should indeed “wake up”… and finally take a long, honest look in the mirror at what they’ve become.

French President Macron: We should not underestimate that this is a unique moment where a US president, a Russian president, a Chinese president are dead against the Europeans. This is the right moment for us — wake up.

@saraan_tweets @clashreport BS excuse

@clashreport May be, but a lot people want to come to your countries because you or your allies bombed there countries and make them unliveable.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis: There's something about our way of life that makes us attractive. Why do people want to come to Europe? Because of our way of life. It's just a question of making sure that this European way of life is sustainable.

@Smirkley This is why France conceals all ethnic data. It's to hide the truth.

Germany just released 2025 crime data. Overall, Algerian nationals commit crime at 18x the rate of Germans and nearly 100x the rate of Japanese nationals. 1/11

@SamuelWHG @kane Singapore has no real welfare state, among the lowest taxes in the world, high inequality metrics, and tops millionaires per capita

@kane “Not an exercise in redistribution” when he talks about possibly the developed country that has gone the furtherest in redistribution through nationalisation of almost all land

Leftists hate Lee Kuan Yew because he showed in one generation that good governance is a technical and operational endeavor, not a moral performance or an exercise in redistributive grievance.

@HarunobuKanemor @FRHoffmann1 Then show me a good source for your claim that Patriot misses every Iranian missile.

@ntonaltntak @FRHoffmann1 If you think there is 'nothing wrong' with a 0% interception rate, then sure.

Honestly, the reality probably is that, even with German participation in SAMP/T, the program would be in a somewhat similar place today. Europe's original sin was the systematic disregard of ballistic missile defense, while the United States made it a key priority from the 1990s onward. That alone pretty much explains the difference in capacity and capability we are seeing today. Let's say Germany was part of the program. The main difference would probably be that instead of Aster 30 interceptors being shipped back and forth several times between France and Italy before going to the customer, they would be shipped between three countries. The more I learn and see about European procurement, the more I am convinced that it just fundamentally doesn't work - the very occasional exception proving the rule. Instead of trying to make a dead horse walk, maybe European countries should just embrace the inefficiency of national and minilateral procurement and make the best of it.

@HarunobuKanemor @FRHoffmann1 There's nothing wrong with Patriot's performance vs Iranian and Russian missiles. The US had other problems dealing with Iran, but it was not a full symmetric war with US forces committed on the ground. They simply fired airstrikes at Iran for a month.

@FRHoffmann1 US ballistic missile defense didn't work. All that money spent, and it lost to Iran in three weeks. Imagine what it would do vs China. Europe dodged a bullet there. All we need is SAMP/T and ballistic missiles of our own to strike back.

@newspeaknews @Motor_Sport That's your own theory that the Ford was more drivable than the Renault, spoken like some know-it-all who drove both cars. James Hunt said it straight in live commentary that day - the Williams was "just as superior in the wet as in the dry".

@ntonaltntak @Motor_Sport If you don't understand how the Ford with it's more linear power delivery and lower torque is an advantage in the wet . . . I can't help you. I don't have time to explain set up fundamentals from the ground up.

What is THE best wet-weather drive in F1 history? ☔️🏁 Clark at Spa in 1963? Senna at Donington in 1993? Schumacher at Barcelona in 1996? Hamilton at Silverstone in 2008? Verstappen at Interlagos in 2024? Check out some of our picks below! 👇

@Motor_Sport Schumacher's win at Spa 1997 also deserves a mention

@newspeaknews @Motor_Sport Senna didn't have the "best engine", and both Williams (and others) also had TC.

@Motor_Sport It's Clark at Spa or Stewart at the 'Ring. No other serious candidates Senna's drive at Donington remains hugely overrated (even he thought so, TC and the best engine in the conditions). Barrichello was better that day. Senna's greatest Wet Weather driver was Estoril'85. Fact

@mikros_vasilias @Matt247821 @sentdefender @RapidResponse47 @lookner The NATO operations on Yugoslavia and Libya were authorized by the UN, and a coalition was built beforehand.

@Matt247821 @sentdefender @RapidResponse47 @lookner NATO was the "aggressor" in Yugoslavia and Libya The only reason why you guys are against it is because it's Trump asking

@ernestoport @JayinKyiv Exactly. And that 3.6% is not charity either - it's for US bases all over the continent to project power, plus subordinate European allies spending hundreds of billions on US defense and tech products.

Trump says that it's ridiculous that Europe defends themselves against Russia.

@JDMatrixWave @RepDonBacon OK, so you won't have 500 million Europeans spending hundreds of billions per year on US tech and defense. Sounds good to us.

@RepDonBacon Tickle your fancy Don? No thank you America has had enough of Europe and they’re crazy….

This article is exceptionally well written. “Gutting NATO would be self-sabotage by the U.S.” NATO has helped us to be the world’s superpower. spectator.com/article/what-t…

@TomasOrpington @sentdefender It punishes America, yes. The only reason America has overseas bases is to serve their own interests. Trump thinks they're all charity.

@sentdefender Moving U.S. forces out of "NATO member states"? Is that supposed o be a punishment? I would see that as a reward.

According to the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed administration officials, the White House is considering a plan to punish NATO countries who didn’t aid the U.S. and Israel in operations against Iran. The proposal includes moving U.S. forces out of NATO member states who failed to aid in operations against Iran. The plan is only in its early phases but has support amongst senior Trump administration officials, per the report.

@tomysweat1 @chrisschmitz The NATO operation in Afghanistan lasted over a decade. And you forgot Bosnia, Serbia and Libya.

@chrisschmitz Other than a brief appearance in Afghanistan, NATO has done absolutely nothing in the past 30 years.

People are quick to judge the "strategic blunder" that the Iran war might be. Here is a little secret: the by far biggest strategical blunder of the Iran war IS already materializing, thats the patronizing attitude of Merz Starmer Macron and others against the US.

@visionergeo Trump always wanted to leave or hobble NATO anyway. This war is just a pretext.

🇺🇸🪖🇮🇷 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on NATO: I have a direct quote from the President of the United States on NATO: They were tested, and they failed.

@Malverde2472 @unusual_whales Russia was helping Iran long before that.

@unusual_whales Of course Russia is helping Iran since we helped Ukraine.

King: Can you update us on Russian intelligence sharing with Iran? Gabbard: If it's going on, that answer would be appropriate for a closed session King: It's been in the press. Is it occurring? Gabbard: What I can tell you is that according to the Dept of War, any support Iran is receiving is not inhibiting their operational effects King: That's the first cousin of 'yes,' I guess