AtomicKnowledge

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AtomicKnowledge

AtomicKnowledge

@KnowledgeAtomic

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Eric Matheny 🎙️
Eric Matheny 🎙️@ericmmatheny·
If our so-called European allies won’t let us use their bases, then we need to leave NATO and stop funding them. NATO is a one-sided deal where America gets stuck with the bill. We don’t need them, they need us.
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy. That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks. She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed. She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed. The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality. It doesn’t add up. Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication. Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?
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Acyn
Acyn@Acyn·
Graham: I would move our bases out of Spain because they are unreliable country. I would be looking at reducing the number of troops we have in Europe. I would be looking at repositioning these troops in countries that are more favorable to the United States. NATO will look different after tonight.
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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@BaldingsWorld It’s a defensive alliance. It works the same way as your “alliance” with Israel. When we are attacked we expect you to spend your wealth defending us. Why? Because you are the hegemon and we buy your debt. Unlike Israel, we’re not being attacked. It’s simple really.
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Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板
Serious question for Euros: what does "alliance" mean to you because other than America defends us as we do nothing, I can't impute any other meaning from how you use the word as pertains to NATO
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AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@Aris_Utensil Because we’ve had our fill of US hegemony and the assorted unga bunga America is No 1 retards on X?
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The Aristocratic Utensil
The Aristocratic Utensil@Aris_Utensil·
Dear American retards... you will notice, virtually no European is begging for NATO to stay... Can you guess why?
LHGrey™️@grey4626

Fucking Finally. The Lion of Mar-a-Lago has roared with that signature, unfiltered lethality, and the message slices through the European delusion like a Tomahawk through a command bunker: the age of American subsidy for your parasitic cowardice is fucking over. To the sniveling, jet-fuel-starved cock-suckers of the United Kingdom and its spineless continental cohorts...listen the fuck up. For eighty years we have bled treasure, blood, and industrial supremacy to underwrite your decadent existence. From the Marshall Plan’s reconstruction of your war-ravaged empires to the carrier battle groups that have patrolled the Persian Gulf since the Tanker War of the 1980s, America has been your unpaid mercenary, your nuclear umbrella, your global logistics backbone. NATO? Nothing more than the North American Tribute Organization...where the United States shoulders over sixty-five percent of the alliance’s actual spending while your militaries have atrophied into hollow parade-ground husks, underfunded, undermanned, and equipped with yesterday’s gear because you chose cradle-to-grave welfare states and green virtue-signaling over steel and resolve. Geopolitically, the Strait of Hormuz is no academic footnote: it is the jugular vein of the world economy, funneling twenty-one percent of global petroleum liquids...nineteen million barrels a day...through a narrow chokepoint that asymmetric Iranian tactics...mines, anti-ship missiles, speedboat swarms...were designed to threaten precisely because they knew direct confrontation with American naval power was suicide. We and our Israeli partners have done the hard kinetic work...the precision decapitation of their leadership structure. The heavy lifting is finished. Now these same European freeloaders, who lacked the spine to commit forces when it mattered, dare complain about disrupted sea lanes? Decades of Pax Americana have bred in you a terminal strategic infantilism: a learned helplessness wrapped in smug moral superiority. You lecture the world on the “rules-based order” while outsourcing your survival to American sons and daughters. History is merciless on this point...from the Suez Crisis of 1956, when your imperial twilight exposed the limits of European power projection without U.S. backing, to the present. Your elites are psychologically castrated by comfort; your populations softened by entitlement. You forgot that freedom of navigation is not a birthright...it is enforced by gun, steel, and the will to use them. President Trump’s directive is surgical in its venomous precision: Number One, buy the fucking fuel from us...we have plenty. Number Two, grow some long-overdue balls, reconstitute what remains of your navies, sail into the Strait, and TAKE IT. No more American taxpayers dying to keep your fighters in the sky and your economies from freezing in the dark while you backstab and virtue-signal. The parasite has fed on the host long enough. The era of the United States as Europe’s security guard, banker, and scapegoat is closed. Fight for your own oil or learn to live without it. Adapt or wither. The choice is yours, but the protection racket is finished. Grow a fucking spine or don't. We don't give a fuck anymore. 💀🗡️⚖️

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AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@Wurmserscribit Everything you say is true. It applies equally to the US. Europe takes its intellectual lead from the hegemon. A divorce would be the best thing for us.
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David Wurmser
David Wurmser@Wurmserscribit·
Europe’s elites have cast airs for a long time about their supposed sophistication and erudition, a continent of great wisdom versus the wild, yahoo world of America. Europe truly is the font of immense knowledge, and is the foundation of US culture and thought. Anyone who ignores the history of Europe in America does so to their peril. But in my dealings with European diplomats and elites, I found some exceptional thinkers indeed, but overall I was struck how undeveloped and uninformed much of their thinking was in terms of history or ideas, and often even in technical knowledge of the issues at hand. As much as I sparred with my State Department colleagues, they were generally far better educated and informed than their European counterparts. This touches the essence of Europe’s misunderstanding of the U.S. borne of their haughtiness. We are a wild, unharnessed nation. But we are educated. We were largely universally literate in colonial times when majority of Europeans remained illiterate, a fact of which not only Europeans but most Americans are unaware. When ideas come to American shores, we lasso them, play with them, give them vast new dimensions and send them back to Europe. We are a nation born of both great historic knowledge from our European heritage but also Biblical knowledge, which is also a rich source of philosophical and historical insight. We truly do rest on the pillars of Rome, Jerusalem and Athens. And the haughtiness of European elites that closed their minds was contrast with the sense of humility that often is accompanied by a deep curiosity. Americans, precisely because they always felt they did not know enough, relentless tapped into curiosity to insatiably learn more and more. And if there is one thing that worries me about American culture more than anything else these days, it is not the breakdown in values or even knowledge. Those can be reacquired quickly by preservation of texts and learning. What worries me far more is the slow adoption, especially among the younger one gets, of a European sense of haughtiness, absoluteness and certainty. This closing of the mind is anchored to a sense of having figured it out rather than a constant humility and the deep curiosity and thirst for knowing more that came with it. Once rooted, that corrosive decline not in knowledge but attitude is hard to reverse.
Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke

One thing to remember about Europe is that there are very few fresh-minded, unindoctrinated people left. That’s just a reality after many decades of cradle-to-grave welfare state culture. The alternatives that get celebrated here, like AfD in Germany, Farage in England, Meloni in Italy, or Le Pen in France, all have major problems of their own, as the tweet below shows. I wish it weren’t so, but it’s a lost continent. You can’t undo decades of decadence and stupidity. That’s just the way it is.

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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@BasedMikeLee It’s amazing you’ve stayed so long given how many divorce lawyers America has. Let’s agree that you take your people but leave the hardware. Just as you did in Afghanistan.
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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
We’re in an abusive relationship with NATO Let’s leave Pass it on
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Pedro Domingos
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos·
Europe needs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz way more than America does, but refuses to help America do it. And Europe is within range of Iran's missiles, unlike America, but refuses to help America get rid of them. Maybe it's time to abandon Europe to its fate.
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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@0ptimod @newstart_2024 The Palestinians in the West Bank didn’t elect Hamas. They are still being ethnically cleansed and slaughtered. Hamas is a cancer, sure. But while your head is up your ass I suggest looking for others.
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anti-Deficit-Spending ☮️⚠️
@KnowledgeAtomic @newstart_2024 Gaza victimhood is a constructed lie. The crime of electing Hamas, who kill anyone that disagrees, is the truth of Gaza. Free Gaza from Hamas, to liberate the captured women and children. IDF are heros for eradicating Hamas. That is the truth.
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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@HarrajSokhi @newstart_2024 By the by, you’d better get used to hearing about Gaza. The dead there are going to be haunting us for the rest of our lives. Especially those who looked away.
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Harraj Singh Sokhi
Harraj Singh Sokhi@HarrajSokhi·
@KnowledgeAtomic @newstart_2024 Again Gaza!🤦🏻‍♂️ Argue on specifics … her context is not Gaza, but a general pattern of imposition of ideological totalitarianism. Discuss on that point, in that context. Don’t drag in Gaza to reject what she is saying.🤦🏻‍♂️ Your reaction is actually proving what she is saying!
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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@HarrajSokhi @newstart_2024 Read my lines again. I don’t reject what she is saying. I actually agree with her diagnosis. But it’s hard to listen to someone argue this case who also denies the reality of what happened in Gaza. Read Orwell. Totalitarianism would have you deny what you see.
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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@johnkonrad Only reason people listen to you is cos of a glitch in the X algorithm.
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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
I’m back from DC. Best quote of the trip? “The only reason so many people listen to you, Konrad, is because everyone with real experience is retired or dead.” Hell of an indictment. 🔥
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Visioner
Visioner@visionergeo·
🇮🇱🇮🇷 An American pilot with 25 years of experience, a veteran of three wars and hundreds of combat sorties, spoke about Israeli military pilots. He published a post that quickly went viral: “I’ve flown over Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. I thought I had seen everything. But when I saw what the Israeli Air Force is doing in Iran, I realized I’m still a student. Precision. Logistics. 200 aircraft in one night. 500 targets. 1,500 kilometers. No aerial refueling from American bases. All the fuel from home. All the weapons from home. It’s like flying from Miami to New York, bombing targets along the way, and returning— while 200 aircraft move simultaneously without a single collision. To the Israeli pilots: You are not just the best in the Middle East. You are the best in the world. And that’s the final word.”
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Roman Helmet Guy
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
I’ve warned Europeans about this before, but if the US stops seeing Europe as a partner to help contain China, it will go looking for a different partner to support. Maybe a large country that borders China, with nukes and oil. The worst case for Europe isn’t merely a neutral US.
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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@CliffordDMay @MsMelChen “But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are.” Yeah we do. We watched China getting richer by not following the US into stupid wars. We figured we’d try something new.
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Clifford D. May
Clifford D. May@CliffordDMay·
I'm pro-NATO. But I can't think of a single argument to refute what @MsMelChen says here. Not one. If others can, please weigh in.
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

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AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@DavidD_Chapman No one in Europe is pissed mate. We want you to leave. Pack your shit and fuck off. If you need a cab, we’ll order you one.
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AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@LydiaMoynihan Not sure anyone in Europe cares. Will you still be complaining when Israel shakes down US taxpayers for reconstruction costs?
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Lydia Moynihan
Lydia Moynihan@LydiaMoynihan·
Trump thanks our allies -- mentions Israel, Saudi, Qatar, etc. Noticeably absent? Any mention of Europe.
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AtomicKnowledge
AtomicKnowledge@KnowledgeAtomic·
@HayekAndKeynes It’s about as pathetic a display of “leadership” as I have ever seen. No amount of Persil is going to wash this stain off American history.
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