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That's why I said it "sad" ... implying that the nature of the relationship is changing. But every country shifts funding priorities and sacrifices its military. But that doesn't mean the relationship is shit. As my UK friends said "don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

@syserr0r_ @MAGA2028FLibs @0hour1 "From an intel and military cooperation perspective, the UK remains our closest and most trusted partner." I'm British & pro US. I ❤️ the US. But man, what u said just doesn't feel true anymore. This is what happens when too many yanks treat their friends as cunts. It's so sad.

The US is considering cutting all defense deals with the UK and France.

@MAGA2028FLibs @abc20254 @0hour1 Yes. I hope so too.

@abc20254 @syserr0r_ @0hour1 Yep I hope Nigel wins and you guys get your country back

When I say “strongest” I'm referring to the depth of the relationship…not just raw military size. The US/UK have one of the most integrated militaries in the world, with extensive joint operations, training, and basing. On the intelligence side, we share more with the UK than with any other country, including deep access through the FVEY alliance. UK facilities and capabilities have historically filled important gaps for the US, and vice versa. From an intel and military cooperation perspective, the UK remains our closest and most trusted partner."

@syserr0r_ @0hour1 Strongest, lol they have 1 carrier that isn’t even nuclear and it takes them weeks to be ready. That sounds like a terrible alliance

What we are seeing right now with a large element of Special Operations Forces pushing to the Middle East is not just routine military movement. It is a deliberate positioning of capability, and more importantly, decision making power, at the highest level. The surge of at least 35 C-17 flights from key installations across the United States into Israel and Jordan strongly indicates the potential formation of a Special Operations Joint Task Force (SOJTF) or, if allied partners are involved, a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF). That distinction matters, but the implication is the same. This is not a conventional buildup. This is the architecture required to execute decisive operations. Special Operations Forces operate fundamentally differently than conventional military units. A traditional force buildup of brigades, divisions, armored units, signals preparation for large scale, sustained ground combat. That is not what this is. A SOJTF or CJSOTF is designed for precision, speed, and strategic impact. It brings together elite elements from across the services: Army Special Forces, Rangers, Navy SEALs, Air Force Special Tactics, under a unified command structure that can execute complex missions with minimal footprint but maximum effect. These formations are built to dismantle networks, eliminate remaining high value targets, enable partner forces, and create cascading operational advantages without requiring a massive ground invasion. The inclusion of the 82nd Airborne Division in this movement is also telling. The 82nd is not being positioned as the main effort, but rather as an uplift and contingency force. Their role is to provide rapid reinforcement, secure key terrain, respond to escalation, and enable the freedom of maneuver for special operations elements. They are there to support and stabilize, not to lead a conventional campaign. This combination gives the President something critically important: options. A SOJTF or CJSOTF provides the ability to act quickly without committing to a large scale war, apply precise force where it matters most, scale operations up or down based on conditions, and achieve strategic objectives without the political and human cost of a full conventional deployment. Most importantly, it creates a pathway to victory without a massive ground footprint. Victory in this context does not mean occupying terrain with large formations. It means achieving decisive outcomes: neutralizing threats, collapsing hostile networks, and shaping the environment through targeted, intelligence driven operations. That is exactly what Special Operations Forces are built to do. If the objective is to finish the job, this is the most effective way to do it. A SOJTF or CJSOTF allows the United States to bring its most capable and adaptable forces to bear, while avoiding the risks and long term commitments associated with conventional boots on the ground warfare. This is not escalation for its own sake. It is precision positioning for decisive action, and anyone saying any different is either doing so out of ignorance or because they want to use any force movement into the Middle East as a club against the President.

@C_3C_3 If European countries only want NATO to stop Russia, then the EU can establish its own military and fend for itself. The US needs to shift to focus on China and other types of threats.

Are you sitting down? The American taxpayer is responsible for 62% of NATO’s defense budget. It’s way past time America leaves NATO. Let them fend for themselves. Most NATO countries are not our allies. Facts.

THE VA GUN BAN IS DEAD! We have received confirmation directly from the House Veterans Affairs Committee. All names of veterans who were banned from owning firearms for things as simple as requesting financial assistance have been REMOVED from the NICS system! This has been a decades-long fight, but this historic injustice has finally been corrected. Victory!

🚨 WOW. Ohio Rep. Josh Williams calls out Planned Parenthood as KlLLERS right to their faces, the Democrats are STUNNED "Planned Parenthood is not the witness that I would look to, since more black babies have DIED in the womb because of YOUR organization." He said on the floor: "As a black man in America, married to an amazing black woman, I couldn't STAND here and IGNORE those numbers and the harm that abortion is causing in my community!" "Now, while we make up a significant smaller share of the population, nearly half of all abortions involve black children!" "Between 19 million and 20 million black babies have been killed inside the womb since Roe v. Wade in the United States. That's something I can't ignore, because I'm literally watching the genocide of black children in the United States." He's speaking truth!

European NATO militaries (the non-U.S. part of the alliance) are capability-constrained, structurally fragmented, historically under-resourced, own systems that are not integrated, and heavily dependent on American support for anything beyond short-duration, low-intensity territorial defense on or near their own continent. Decades of post-Cold War cuts left them with shallow munitions stocks, aging equipment, manpower shortages, limited high-end enablers (strategic lift, aerial refueling, ISR, precision fires, resilient logistics), and a patchwork of incompatible national systems that undermine joint operations. The UK, for example, slashed its forces after the 2015: the British Army was cut to just 72,500 regular troops by 2025—its smallest size since 1714—with reductions across the Navy and RAF as well. This included the surface fleet shrinking to around 13 destroyers and frigates (with far fewer operationally available at any time due to maintenance backlogs). That hollowing out severely limited Britain's power projection capabilities. Germany's Bundeswehr was so unprepared that, in early 2022, it famously offered Ukraine just 5,000 helmets instead of meaningful lethal aid, becoming a global symbol of a risk-averse, under-equipped force with minimal stocks and low readiness. Why these cuts? European priorities shifted toward funding expansive social and domestic programs. They took unnecessary risks by shrinking defense budgets, assuming the U.S. would always handle the heavy lifting for them. Sure, European allies and Canada recently ramped up spending sharply—hitting ~$574 billion in 2025 with a ~20% real-term increase. All members now meet or exceed the old 2% of GDP target, and the 2025 Hague Summit set a new goal of 5% total (3.5% core defense + 1.5% resilience/industry) by 2035. But money doesn't instantly create warfighting capability. Building the industrial base, trained forces, deep stockpiles, integrated systems, and readiness needed to win high-intensity peer conflicts takes a decade or more. Rhetoric and budget pledges move faster than actual deployable combat power. This imbalance is why burden-sharing debates persist: Article 5 is mutual defense for the North Atlantic area. It’s supposed to be a two-way relationship that also benefits the US, not just Europe. In today’s warfare, threats go far beyond conventional forces and can take many different forms. So once again: if China—an emerging superpower—attacks the US, would NATO truly help? Or would it fold and provide only symbolic “support” in the form of helmets?

@StateDept @SecRubio If the US went to war with China, would NATO come to the aid of the US, or would they just send military helmets?

🚨 SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement. That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.

🚨 BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt just FIRED BACK at everyone melting down at SecWar Pete Hegseth calling for prayer during war "I don't think there's ANYTHING wrong with our military leaders or with the President calling on the American people to pray for our service members and those who are serving our country overseas!" 🙏🏻 "In fact, I think it's a very noble thing to do. And if you talk to many service members, they will tell you they appreciate the prayers and support from the Commander-in-Chief and from his cabinet." Said it perfectly.

One, there likely already are IDF special mission units operating in Iran, and the footprint we are sending in is SOF, not conventional, so the conventional IDF wouldn’t necessarily be involved regardless. Two, because they are fighting a different front of this war. They are pushing into Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah (which is an Iran proxy), while providing priceless HUMINT and strategic air support along with our systems. Three, because we are leading this conflict so that we have operational control over all aspects, which includes what boots go on the ground and for what purpose. Again, this will be a SOF led initiative and our troops will be best suited to complete the missions without issue. Four, because they are surrounded by Muslim countries that refuse to work with them, some of which are also our allies in this conflict against Iran, and they likely are not willing to share the battle space with Israel like they are with us. Yep, good ole fashioned blood feuds are real, especially in the ME. All of you people have such strong opinions about strategic warfare while knowing absolutely nothing about it…

Big policy shift from America abandoning Latin America which opened the doors to China operating in our backyard.

The US is a net exporter of petroleum overall and imports very little oil directly from the Strait of Hormuz (only a small fraction of our crude comes from the Persian Gulf). That said, we can still expect higher global oil prices and supply disruptions that will hit other countries hard, especially in Asia and Europe. This leaves two likely paths forward: 1. The international community takes action to secure the Strait of Hormuz, ensuring no single country can hold the global economy hostage. 2. Countries with weaker leadership, facing energy shortages and economic pain, turn on Trump—ramping up political pressure and accusations of war crimes or escalation. Either way, this situation will come to a head within the next month as the remaining pre-closure oil "air pocket" runs out and real shortages begin to bite.

@johnkonrad It’s psyops programming to get them to believe they don’t submit to any king, to include Jesus.

You do know when marxists chant “No Kings,” they mean Jesus, right?

“… while Japan’s carriers trained for Pearl Harbor. Isolationism didn’t spare America war...it guaranteed America would fight it late, unprepared, and against an Axis already at peak strength.”

@TheAtlantic @petridishes TSA has an 80-95% failure rate in detecting threats on X-ray/CT scanners. DHS “Red Team” undercover agents routinely smuggle mock weapons & explosives through checkpoints at dozens of airports. I’m sure the untrained ICE agents can do much better…

America’s airports are plagued by long lines; surely deploying ICE agents who are “not trained” to read X-ray machines will help move things along, @petridishes writes: theatlantic.com/newsletters/20…

@0hour1 Each one armed with a nuclear hang grenade and a box of crayons.

Breaking, according to X experts, Trump has landed 1 trillion Marines inside Iran. I will keep you all updated.

🚨 WOW —Tumors literally liquefied by sound waves. No scalpel. No chemo. No radiation. None of those horrible side effects. This is histotripsy: focused ultrasound blasts destroy cancer cells mechanically in minutes, sparing healthy tissue completely.

@CynicalPublius @RobManess Iran will wait until Trump leaves office to restart their nuclear program.

Barack Obama deliberately sought to make Iran a nuclear power. Consider what his intentions were in doing so.