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@Sadie_NC As you say Iran wasn't a threat to America, its a threat to Europe. Despite that, Europe didn't ask you to attack Iran. They asked you to help with Ukraine.

DONALD TRUMP: "Germany said, 'This is not our war.' Well, Ukraine wasn’t our war either, but we stepped up and helped you anyway!" NATO is quick to reach out with its hands open for American money and protection, but the moment we need them? They vanish. And they’ve just proven it again. After we poured hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine to shield Europe’s own backyard, they won’t even let our aircraft fly over their airspace or use their airfields. These Iranian missiles aren’t a threat to the American homeland, but they are absolutely within range of Europe. Right now, the United States is the one out there taking them out and protecting Europe, and Europe’s response is still, “This is not our war!” It is not acceptable.

@JimFergusonUK Sounds awesome. The whole US military is awesome. It's just ineffective.

🚨 A SILENT SIGNAL IN THE MEDITERRANEAN An Ohio-class SSGN surfacing off Gibraltar is not routine. Add a Dry Deck Shelter… Add special forces transfer… And the picture becomes very clear. This is not theatre. This is preparation. The Dry Deck Shelter exists for one purpose: Covert insertion and extraction of elite units. Underwater. Unseen. Undetected. When assets like this are forward-positioned near a strategic chokepoint like Gibraltar… It tells you something. Operations are not just being planned. They are being enabled. These submarines are among the most capable platforms in the world: • Cruise missile strike capability • Covert surveillance • Special operations deployment They don’t move for show. They move with purpose. And when they surface… It’s usually because something is already in motion. While headlines focus on carriers and airstrikes… It’s the quiet movements like this that matter most. Because the real operations are rarely the ones you see. They’re the ones you don’t.

@JimFergusonUK Trumps words are worthless. My farts have more worth.

🚨 EUROPE JUST GOT THE MESSAGE — AND IT’S NOT A GOOD ONE President Trump has made it clear: America is finishing its objective… and then stepping back. No more world policing. No more automatic protection. No more guarantees. His words matter: “The Strait… that’s not for us. That’ll be for France. That’ll be for whoever’s using it.” Read between the lines. This is a strategic shift. The United States is signalling: We secured our interests We achieved our objective You are now responsible for yours For Europe — this is a wake-up call. Because for decades: Security was outsourced Energy vulnerability was ignored Military strength was allowed to decline Now reality is returning. Fast. If America steps back: Who protects critical trade routes? Who secures energy supply lines? Who responds when escalation happens again? Europe is exposed. And it has been left exposed by its own leadership. This is not just about geopolitics. This is about consequence. Weak energy policy. Weak defence policy. Weak leadership. All converging at the same moment. And now, when the pressure is rising… The safety net may no longer be there. The world is shifting. And Europe is not ready.

@Scruffymurphy2 Albo’s speech was a big nothingburger. #auspol

The President/PM's of the Three AUKUS nations are making public announcements within hours of each other. 🤔 One can only hope it means the end of the Trilateral alliance? Otherwise, the alternative is unconscionable.

@johnkonrad You don’t need a battleship 100x more powerful, you just need one with reliable toilets & laundry.

Trump said we need Greenland because we can’t trust NATO to let us use it in a war. He said we need a battleship 100x more powerful to keep straits open. Europe laughed. Trump was right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@StateDept Ok so what about the international waters around Cuba then?

SECRETARY RUBIO: For all these countries that like to talk about international law, it’s a violation of maritime law to impede the free flow of travel in international waters. The Strait of Hormuz is international waters, so Iran’s actions to impede commercial traffic are illegal.

@MOSSADil The Iranian people couldn’t rise up because they were being bombed by America.

🚨 DID THE MOMENT PASS FOR THE IRANIAN PEOPLE? Did the opportunity for the Iranian people to free themselves from the regime pass? President Trump is set to address the nation and the world at 9 PM on April 1, with all indications pointing to an announcement ending operations in Iran. So what’s next? Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil

@RealBookerScott Those troops don’t protect Europe anyway more than the troops in the Gulf protected Gulf states. They’re there to protect the US.

There are 100,000 American boots on the ground in Europe today as their Army protecting Europe. TO HELL WITH NATO, Europe and Canada. Bring American troops home.

@AvidCommentator Not to mention the diversion of oil payments away from the US dollar. This war is the nail in the coffin for the petroleum-dollar.

Lets say the U.S pulls out and leaves the new Iranian highwayman toll both on the Strait of Hormuz charging $2 million a transit. Take that and multiply by the 35k+ transits per year. That is $70bn USD a year. That is roughly 7x Iran's defence budget. Sounds viable...

@StateDept Ah finally you tell the truth - why you really have bases in Europe - not to defend Europe, but the US.

SECRETARY RUBIO: NATO wasn’t just about defending Europe, but allowing us to have military bases in Europe for our national security. If we’ve reached a point where the NATO alliance means that we can’t use those bases to defend our interests, then it’s a one-way street.

@bhweingarten It’s in our global interest to see that America is no longer the world’s number one state terrorist.

It's absolutely wild, when you step back and think about it, the Regime Media narrative being propagated regarding the length of the Iran war. "How long will it take," the talking heads drone on about, ad nauseam. We are ONE MONTH in to an operation to decimate the world's leading state sponsor of jihad, which has been at war with us for 47 YEARS. And we're dominating by every conventional measure against the stated objectives of neutralizing their nuclear, missile, and naval capabilities, and laying waste to their defense industrial base (to say nothing of what is becoming of their ailing proxies). For some there's an understandable hangover from genuine forever wars without tangible or achievable objectives. And there are of course reasonable good faith questions and criticisms one can raise. But for far too many this is about politics, in a midterm election year, plain and simple. And it's about hatred of President Trump over everything else -- including the national interest.

@_InfoGram_ Well, actually, Russia is bombing Ukraine. So there’s that.

BREAKING🚨: PEAK HYPOCRISY 🔥 🇮🇱Netanyahu: "I don’t hear North Korea chanting Death to America. I don’t hear China or Russia chanting it either. — 🇮🇷Iran is." 🇮🇷IRAN: YOU don’t hear China or Russia bombing other countries nonstop either but 🇮🇱Israel does.🔥🔥 HYPOCRISY EXPOSED 🔥

@DanFriedman81 And yet the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

Let’s make one thing clear: When the US and Israeli Air Forces have complete air superiority over your country and bomb your military infrastructure 10,000 times, you are not stronger after that. Iran has lost numerous generals and leaders, its entire Air Force, its navy, numerous munitions factories, between half and 90% of its ballistic missiles and Israel and the US continue to bomb hundreds of targets a day, completely unimpeded. It’s astonishing how many total nitwits are platformed to write the dumbest things imaginable in major publications.

@Microinteracti1 I think you’re wrong this time. He’s lying and will send in the troops.

The most embarrassing military retreat in American history just got a name: Operation Epic Fury. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump has told aides he is willing to walk away from the Iran war even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed.  Let that sink in. The president is considering declaring a loss and going home while it stays shut. Military strategists around the world are watching in disbelief. This is a superpower that started a fight it cannot finish, blinking in public, hoping nobody notices. Trump and his team concluded that an operation to reopen the strait would extend the conflict beyond his preferred timeline of four to six weeks.  So the schedule beats the strategy. The calendar matters more than the objective. That is not how wars are won. That is how empires signal decline. The fallback plan confirms it. Press Tehran diplomatically to restore free flow of trade. And if that fails, ask European and Gulf allies to take the lead in reopening it.  The same allies Trump spent years mocking, tariffing, and threatening. Now he needs them to finish his war. Every military college from Sandhurst to Beijing is studying this right now. The lesson they are writing down is simple: America without its allies is a paper tiger. Trump set an April 6 deadline for Tehran to reopen the strait or face strikes on key energy and water infrastructure.  Iran said no. The deadline is now quietly dissolving into diplomatic language. America started a war it cannot finish. What a joke. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@KrisPatel99 You’re over-complicating it. Trump is lying and he is sending in the troops.

What Trump did by announcing that the US would leave even with the strait closed is created a situation where every other country that is a net importer of oil and refined products is now paying roughly $1/barrel toll. The deal could be… 1. Denuclearize with inspections 2. Stop supporting proxies 3. Sanctions relief 4. Get the $2M toll as long as it’s in US dollars. *Very important that it remains USD* to maintain petroleum dollar. Some of the money could go towards a “regional fund” This would make Iran $ 90B from tolls a year and another $90-100B from Oil sales. 200B / year. Right now they sell to the Chinese at a significant discount because of the sanctions. If they become economically dependent on the strait being opened full time. they will save their economy and cement the current regime in power. The ultimate loser in this will be any and all countries that are net importers from the strait of Hormuz.

@PeterOB24979769 America is the world’s number one terrorist state. The death and destruction they have wreaked over the last 50 years dwarfs what Iran has done.

Iran is a terrorist state. For 50 years they have funded terrorism and killed thousands of people. I am disgusted with the level of support they seem to have in our screwed up society.

@TheFlowHorse And shorting the market.

Calling bullshit on this Trump headline and he is just head-faking before boots hit the ground.

@RealBababanaras Is that like the credible intelligence that the nuclear facilities were obliterated last June?

BREAKING: A major success for the U.S. and Israeli Air Force. The world is now safer. Based on credible intelligence, the U.S. and Israeli Air Forces targeted and destroyed a uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons development facility in Isfahan, Iran, in overnight strikes.

@realJoelFischer How do you know it’s been completely destroyed? Is that like how Iran’s nukes were completely destroyed last June?

The U.S. Air Force has just struck and completely destroyed an underground ballistic missile storage site in the Sofeh mountain range. It looks like this war is about to come to an end. This is what I voted for 🇺🇸

@amuse Perfect. They’re not there to protect Europe anyway. Just look at what happened with US bases in the gulf, the gulf countries haven’t been protected. US bases in Europe are there to protect the US from Russia.

NATO: If Europe won’t allow us to use the bases we man and fund for their defense when we need them we ought to close them down and remove our troops from Europe. If they get attacked by Russia we can discuss whether or not we have the time to help.