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@osheaf01
Corkman who's lived in Dublin, Cambridge and now Belfast. Engineer who loves bridge and football.
Belfast, Northern Ireland Katılım Mart 2010
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@GenericJes @DanielJHannan Then spend more on defending Europe, and cut your free healthcare and 40 weeks of paid leave.
Draft your young men, and send them to Eastern Ukraine.
This is not the responsibility of Americans.
You Europeans fix it.
It is your continent.
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NATO members are obliged to support one another if attacked, not to join wars of choice. That stipulation was made at the demand of the US, which also insisted that the commitment be territorially limited.
“The treaty does not cover the entire world,” said Dean Acheson. “It applies only to the North Atlantic area.”
He made clear that this had been the key American condition. “We deliberately avoided any implication that we were undertaking a global military commitment.”
The Senate, worried about being dragged into European colonial wars, had threatened to refuse ratification unless the limitations were explicit.
As John Foster Dulles put it: “If it were made global in scope, it would not be acceptable to the United States.”
Despite all this, the only time that NATO has gone to war was indeed out of area, at the request of the US after 9/11.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
.@POTUS: "This was a test for NATO... if you don't [help us] we're going to remember."
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Dear World:
Stop comparing politicians you don't like to Hitler.
Be more creative. Open a history book and find one of the 1,000s of other notable world leaders from history.
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I do hope that European states finally understand what a strategic asset Ukraine is right now. People need to stop talking about Ukraine needing Europe. Europe needs Ukraine for its own freedom and security.
Yaroslav Trofimov@yarotrof
Ukraine’s defense industries are operating well under capacity because of insufficient funding. Orders from the Gulf could be fulfilled very quickly — and co-production lines could also be set up fast.
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@RichardHor54460 @philrandal Stefan Kiszko.
The murderer in his case ejaculated on his victim.
Kiszko physically could not produce sperm.
Took the Finest System of Justice in the World ™️ 17 years to figure out the implications of that.
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Peter Sullivan spent 38 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing florist Diane Sindall. Just a reminder to the morons that keep arguing that Lucy Letby was found guilty in court by a jury. Miscarriages of justice happen. Far too often.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@laurast51362949 @Channel4News @SpanishDan1 20k dead kids.
That's the war crime the world can't get past.
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@osheaf01 @Channel4News @SpanishDan1 all cheered. They killed people that had dedicated their lives to caring for them, to supporting and advancing their cause. They killed disabled kids in wheelchairs. Hamas leaders watched grinning from their hotel rooms watching it live. I can’t get past that.
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Palestinian baby released from Israeli detention with ‘burns’ on legs
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Wait … we STOLE Switzerland’s money?! Am I reading this right?
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: The United States just took over $126 million from Switzerland’s fighter jet account to cover missile shortfalls in the Iran war. Switzerland did not approve this. Switzerland did not consent. Switzerland had already frozen its Patriot payments after learning deliveries would be delayed four to five years. The US circumvented the freeze. SRF, Switzerland’s national broadcaster, reported on March 26 that Washington redirected Swiss funds originally allocated for 36 F-35 fighter jets to cover Patriot air defence shortfalls using the Foreign Military Sales pooled trust fund, a structure that allows the Pentagon to reallocate payments across a buyer’s contracts without that buyer’s permission. Swiss armaments chief Urs Loher confirmed the diverted amount is a “low three-digit million” Swiss francs and called the situation “very unsatisfactory.” The money Switzerland paid for jets is now subsidising a war Switzerland refused to participate in. Bern halted new arms exports to the US on March 20 citing the Iran conflict. Switzerland rejected two US military flyover requests linked to Iran operations. Two hundred years of armed neutrality, and Washington reached into the account anyway. Here is why. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors defending Gulf states in the first four days of Operation Epic Fury per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post last week. Lockheed Martin and Boeing produce 620 Patriot interceptors per year combined. In four days, America burned through eighteen months of global Patriot production. The war has consumed roughly one-third of the entire THAAD missile stockpile. Annual THAAD production does not exceed 100 units. The cost asymmetry is what makes the depletion irreversible at current production rates. Each PAC-3 interceptor costs $3.9 million. Each Iranian Shahed drone costs between $20,000 and $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Iran manufactures an estimated 10,000 Shaheds per month per Reuters. America produces 620 interceptors per year. Iran builds more drones in a single week than the United States builds interceptors in an entire year. Every interceptor fired in the Gulf is one that cannot be delivered to Switzerland, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, or Poland. The State Department warned allies on March 27 that Patriot deliveries to Ukraine would face disruptions as the Pentagon prioritises Iran per Quiver Quantitative. Senator Chris Murphy said on record: “We’ve been told again and again one reason we can’t provide interceptors for the Patriot system for Ukraine is that they’re in short supply.” Lockheed signed a framework to quadruple production to 2,000 units per year. That capacity will not arrive for six to seven years. The Pentagon has asked Congress to shift $1.5 billion from other programmes to accelerate procurement per Bloomberg. None of this helps now. The interceptors are depleting now. The allied accounts are being raided now. Switzerland is considering reducing its F-35 order from 36 to 30 jets and accelerating evaluation of European alternatives per Bluewin and Global Defense Corp. Swiss parliamentarians have called the redirection “an unacceptable violation of procurement sovereignty.” The Swiss parliament is preparing formal hearings. Switzerland is the canary. A neutral country with two centuries of armed neutrality just had its fighter jet money taken without consent to feed a four-week-old war that burns 18 months of interceptor production every 96 hours. Every US ally with a pending defence contract should be asking one question: whose account is next? Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Meanwhile, in Ireland, there is some weird phobia of people living in tall buildings, and anything above four storeys is guaranteed to end up in An Coimisiún Pleanála
NXT EU@NXT4EU
The Netherlands is set to enter a true skyscraper boom, not just for offices, but for people to live, with apartment towers over 200m high! Many of these projects are set to add over 1000 houses each, offering people homes right in the city. Europe is building 🇪🇺
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@seanbwparker @GraceAguil85398 @jeremyatmirror @EmpowerInnocent @hanksoff03 "Appalling vista" on loop
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'It is an unsafe prosecution and he should never have been convicted. To me, it is an open-and-shut case'
Chief investigator in the Horizon scandal Ron Warmington on the case of Robin Garbutt
Report by @jeremyatmirror
@EmpowerInnocent @hanksoff03
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h…
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I mean, how the hell is this even legal?
Was it part of the contract that the seller is entitled to say “screw you and the money you've paid us, we're talking these weapons for ourselves”?
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@Channel4News @SpanishDan1 Why do you all immediately believe Hamas? The terror organisation? Maybe Israel did do it- none of us know. We weren’t there. Or maybe it’s shrapnel wounds. How would anyone know what happened? Including ‘sources’ ?
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@Psycobunny @Channel4News @citizenjournos_ Doesn't look like shrapnel wounds, does it?
Looks like...cigarette burns.
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@Channel4News @citizenjournos_ I cant actually belive a mainstream channel like this is repeating these lies!
The 'burns' are from flying shrapnel from where the soldiers fired warning shots towards the man, the babies father, who was carrying HIS CHILD towards a defense line he KNEW would provoke shots.
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@Iinuscrypto @PeterHRatcliffe Not the first time that's happened, there's the seizure of Ottoman dreadnoughts in August 1914
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Let me get this straight.
Countries around the world have paid the US in advance for arming themselves and also arms for Ukraine.
The US is not delivering those weapons, and also seizing the money already paid for weapons never to be delivered.
No trust left for the US.
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@PeterHRatcliffe @nulasuchet That's the big story right there - what is being done to get this money back from the USA? If anyone has requested a refund, I fancy the current regime is doing the equivalent of a playground bully, crossing their arms and saying come and get it if you can?
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Sounds like the table is being set for the US to withdraw from NATO. Not that this wasn’t obvious before, but it’s now being said pretty explicitly
Department of State@StateDept
PRESIDENT TRUMP: NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?
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Anybody have any tips on how to appear Canadian while traveling internationally?
Asking for a friend.
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As Maya Angelou said: "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time"
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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@Rail_splitter1 @mfstern They're worthless "guarantees", Hitlerian, in fact: another leader who word was worth absolutely nothing.
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“We just told Zelensky the guarantees won't kick in until he does what russia wants.”
This is the Secretary of State of the United States telling the victim of aggression that it must do what the aggressor wants. Never forget. Vote them all out.
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