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NATO is a defensive alliance, not a subservient group of nations that will unconditionally join the US in their aggression - particularly when they don’t consult, don’t have a legal pretext, don’t have a strategy, don’t even have a fixed objective. We’re not sending our people to die for that. I should also add, the current US administration has, without provocation, been lying about us, gaslighting us, threatening us and sanctioning us for the past year. We aren’t exactly enthusiastic about giving the President the benefit of the doubt. Fortunately, the US existed before President Trump and it will exist after. We can rebuild bridges then.

KEIR STARMER IS A DISAPPOINT: "He did something that was SHOCKING. He didn't want to help us." - Trump "They WEREN'T THERE FOR US for small time (Venezuela)." He says he's HIGHLY DOUBTFUL that an ongoing relationship can continue now that we know they DON'T stand with America in true times of need against dangers.

@6beerNchips @fightzone24 @_InfoGram_ Yeah I don’t dispute that they are diversifying, but they’re not unloading 100% of their sovereign wealth funds to the United States “for war”.

@reallywonkyrich @fightzone24 @_InfoGram_ these countries know they are worthless without oil so they are just securing investments for their shareholders abroad before oil runs out

BREAKING 🚨: 🇺🇸 Trump claims Qatar, UAE & Saudi Arabia gave me $2 Trillion each, total $6 Trillion for WAR. Total entire GDP of Qatar, UAE and Saudi: $3 Trillion This is ABSOLUTE CINEMA 😭

@Meowjuqc @fightzone24 @_InfoGram_ Yeah they’re not investing 20% of their entire combined GDP in the US every year for 10 years or 300% of GDP over ten years. This is the equivalent of me saying the US have agreed to invest $96 Trillion to X foreign country over ten years.

@reallywonkyrich @fightzone24 @_InfoGram_ They’re not giving it, they’re investing their money in the US. They get profit in return and US gets to build jobs with it.

@fightzone24 @_InfoGram_ Okay, so you believe that they are giving away 20% of their combined GDP every year for the next ten years to the United States “for war”? For further context you’re talking about an annual payment worth three times the total amount those countries raise through taxation.

@_InfoGram_ He’s talking about investments of $6 trillion over a period of 10 years in the USA. You dumb fuck.

@atrupar @SweetCarmel77 The deranged Wotsit Nonce is chatting bollocks again.

Trump: "They shot the now-famous Ireland--- the island that the UK was very afraid to give us."

@grok @Dean_Hodgkins @Acyn @grok How much does Europe spend on importing military equipment from the US?

Trump: They shot the now famous island, the island that the UK was very afraid to give us because they didn't want to get dragged in. We don't want to get dragged into their wars, either. We’re very disappointed with NATO because NATO has done absolutely nothing… We'll come to their rescue but they'll never come to ours. I want you to remember we said this. They didn't come to our rescue.

@PolitlcsUK @FindoutnowUK Any other Your Party leader would be 20% ahead

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@Truth12123 @SkyNews @EdConwaySky We might as well just issue new licenses but that in itself will make little to no difference to fuel costs.

@SkyNews @EdConwaySky It's not because of the war its because Starmer & Miliband went down a path of importing our energy rather giving new licences for gas, oil & coal that we can produce ourselves. The reason we're facing the biggest hit is because Labour are obsessed with *overnight* net zero.

BREAKING: UK facing biggest economic hit from Iran war of any major country Economics and data editor @EdConwaySky reports trib.al/SjZUkYs

@BBCMOTD They did this for the Chelsea game too (not that it would have made a difference to the outcome). Ligue 1 and the French FA should just say ‘fine you can skip the game but it’ll be forfeited’

PSG have got their wish! The Ligue de Football Professionnel has unanimously decided to accept PSG’s request to postpone their Ligue 1 match against RC Lens, despite Lens’ objection. Liverpool will play Fulham between their two legs.

The guy has threatened us, gaslit us and insulted us constantly for the past year. He’s threatened to invade our territory. He’s given us economic sanctions using a deceptive rationale… …and he is upset that we haven’t committed our people to die in a war that we weren’t consulted on, weren’t given a justification for, weren’t given a strategy for, weren’t given a coherent objective for. He can do one.

BREAKING: Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social claiming that 'NATO nations have done absolutely nothing to help with the lunatic nation, now militarily decimated, of Iran'. The president added the U.S. needs nothing from NATO 🔗 trib.al/SBh67No 📺 Sky 501

If we take the £17 Billion we give the oil and gas sector per year (a sector that makes a £30 Billion profit) and put it into installing solar and battery with an AI grid trading layer on top, you’d pretty much have every household in the country covered in ten years whilst also reducing demand on the grid dramatically and injecting vast sums towards small British businesses who could be contracted for supply and installation.

.@KemiBadenoch displays her total lack of understanding of the energy sector. She argues for more drilling in the North Sea to protect us from this energy crisis - seemingly oblivious to two very important facts. The first is we don't set the price of our north sea oil and gas - we let global markets do that. So in a crisis where global prices sky rocket, how can the answer can be to produce more globally priced oil here - it’s (energy market) illiterate to say so. The answer is to take control of our own energy pricing, starting with our own North Sea, as we have already with retail energy bills. Impose a price and profit cap. If we do this as part of an entire sector move - capping all wholesale prices, then we can combat this crisis and those that are coming next. The second very important fact Kemi seems unaware of is that it will take up to five years to produce anything new from our North Sea. So even if that could help us, it can’t help us with anything soon. And it won’t help us for long because our North Sea is all but empty, there’s 10% left. Our North Sea has been in decline for 30 years, shedding jobs and production capacity - because it’s running out - this has been going on for far longer than green energy has been a thing - to blame green energy for the decline of the North Sea is ignorant (of the facts). And Global markets have been filling the gap between what we make and what we use for decades now - Kemi seems not to know this either. As for energy bills, Badenoch seems unaware that the ‘green taxes’ we have on our energy bills were added by previous Tory governments. She seems also unaware that we spend vast sums subsiding fossils fuels - £17 billion a year at the last count. She operates in a fantasy environment, or would have us do - where green taxes have ruined the country and our oil and gas industry and all we need to do is drill more - it’s delusional. It’s straight out of the mouth of Trump.

@Young_Fish01 Of those.. Penders probably likely to start the season and see how it goes. Quenda and Emegha likely to be squad options. None of them come anywhere near addressing the core issues we have.

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@KizuA1990 @HughEdw31897368 Global instability caused the issue in both instances. If we issue licenses, great, but it won’t make a dent in our bills and I suspect the oil and gas companies would be appealing to the government to fund infrastructure.

@HughEdw31897368 Tories didn't cause the problem mad Ed and Starmer did.

Michael Shanks makes an interesting point, the Tories took 200 days to offer support on heating oil supplies in 2022 while Labour took two weeks. But the MSM scream every day at Labour “what support are you offering”. The energy price cap comes DOWN in April. #skynews

It’s worse as there is no legal pretext, no fixed and clear objective and Iran is far larger and far better equipped than Iraq. The choice is now, retreat with global conditions worse than they were before the air raids started or put boots on the ground and be prepared for a long and protracted war. The worst thing is I expect Trump to do a bit of both. Commit troops, lose troops, lose patience and withdraw.

@RepNancyMace This is Iraq all over again 🤦‍♂️

Just walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran. Let me repeat: I will not support troops on the ground in Iran, even more so after this briefing.

Nah, I’m just listing all of the reasons for war that the admin have rambled on with. I mean if this fits the definition of ‘winning’ for you go wild. The conditions are, however, materially worse for absolutely everyone on the planet than what they were before. It is a bit like a police department hunting for a murderer, smashing up every house in the town they suspect him to be in and calling a press conference saying ‘well, that’s justice served. Case closed’.

@reallywonkyrich @BNODesk @grok So then you admit you pulled those “conditions” of winning out your ass

UPDATE: Iranian media says there were no direct or indirect talks with Trump - Reuters

Well there was no coherent pretext was there? Regime change was spoken about, restricting Iran’s use of a nuclear weapon was spoken about, restoring the Strait Of Hormuz has been spoken about extensively since it’s kicked off. It was almost as if the administration was trying to be as opaque as possible so that they could spin any outcome as victory - even if the reality is materially the worse than it was going in.

@reallywonkyrich @BNODesk @grok I’ll let you look that up. Tell me when you find “occupying Iran” as part of it

@WeJustMightBe @BNODesk @grok What was it about? Just having air superiority for a few weeks?

@reallywonkyrich @BNODesk @grok The war was never about occupying Iran. You’re just making that up as some requirement we need to say we’ve won lol.

The US basically has achieved air superiority. That doesn’t mean the war is won. At all. Not a single square foot of Iran is occupied, the IRG are still in charge, the nuclear program is not destroyed, they’re still launching missiles and drones, the proxies are still in place and as a consequence of the war starting, the Strait of Hormuz is obstructed causing a global oil crisis. From a global perspective, the situation is worse and more unstable than when it started.

@reallywonkyrich @BNODesk @grok Iran is in shambles. They’ve come to the table open to discussions. Yea I’d say they’re pretty toast.

@WeJustMightBe @BNODesk @grok …It was closed as a result of the war starting.. Are you absolutely with a straight face trying to argue that the war has been won. Like you genuinely, genuinely believe that and you’re not trolling?

@reallywonkyrich @BNODesk @grok The strait was not closed pre war. How could its status possibly be the determining factor on whether or not we’ve “won” the war.

@WeJustMightBe @BNODesk @grok …… Are you arguing with a straight face that the Strait being blocked had nothing to do with the war?

@reallywonkyrich @BNODesk @grok Strait wasn’t restricted when the war began. It had nothing to do with war starting. How could its status be a condition of whether or not the war is over.