@Billbrowder @ChrisO_wiki Withdraw from NATO and lose access to the air and naval bases that America relies on to fight the President’s war?
Seems insane.
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OptimisticCynic
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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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@joni_askola NATO has total control over access to the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic.
Russia’s export economy would essentially end, the very goal of Ukraine long range strikes.
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European armies are living in a fantasy.
We do not have even a fraction of the cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, or interceptors needed to survive a high intensity war or actually deter Russia.
We are entirely exposed and relying on empty stockpiles.
We must wake up
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@Angry_Staffer Very expensive or a great incentive to rebuild America’s industrial base.
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Oof. An E-3?
That’s not good. We only have around 20 active in the entire fleet.
Between this and the radar systems we’ve lost, this war is getting very expensive from a national security perspective.
The Aviationist@TheAviationist
The Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia was apparently bigger than first thought, with reports of damage to multiple refueling aircraft, an E-3 Sentry AWACS, and injuries to at least 10 U.S. troops. Updated report: theaviationist.com/2026/03/27/ira…
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@JamesSurowiecki NATO saves America money and vastly increases our ability to spend in R and D since we have allies to sell weapons to.
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We do not spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO. We spend less than ten billion dollars a year on it.
Trump's implicit claim here is that if we weren't a member of NATO, we would slash our defense budget by hundreds of billions. But that's nonsense. We don't spend almost a trillion dollars a year on defense because of NATO. We do it because the US wants to be able to project its power wherever and whenever it wants.
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@ProfessorPape @MalcolmNance There us only one thing that will determine if the US enters a ground war:
Trump
And he has multiple ways he could be pulled in:
1) severe loss of American life
2) terrorist attack in the US
3) irreparable damage Gulf oil infrastructure
4) personal humiliation
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In Iran war: Everyone is watching troop numbers
They’re missing the signal that actually determines whether the U.S. enters a ground war
New: escalationtrap.substack.com/p/the-marine-t…
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@MalcolmNance Trump just wants to make sure that any Thanksgiving argument between relatives over whether or not Trump is an egomaniac can be settled quickly.
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@Rep_Stansbury @anders_aslund Vance is so unpopular that this trip is just backstabbing Orban.
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OK, so let me get this straight—the Vice President of the United States is going to Hungary to actively campaign for an autocrat….k got it.
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@JewsFightBack The Soviet Union was occupying all of Eastern Europe for a half century, but they gave it back.
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47 years ago today, Israel gave Egypt the Sinai.
Three times the size of Israel today.
Given up for peace.
Show me another country willing to compromise this much for peace. I’ll wait.
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@factsforupsc Russians took Tehran and the north half of Iran in 1941 while the British occupied the south.
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This is How Natural Fortress look like
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Ground invasion is not easy
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@MalcolmNance The Russian invasion of Ukraine involved more than 150000 Russian soldiers from bases on Russian and Belarusian soil.
Gulf War, 500k Americans plus allies.
So 10k Americans will do what?
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Your assessment is quite wrong. Strategic deception would not involve 10,000 troops. Where we attack is different but this op is a Go.
Trump is painted himself into a corner. He’s gonna take the leap. And Land in paint.
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein
A conventional ground invasion of Iran is not imminent; military sources tell me that the Pentagon is just trying to scare them using strategic deception: kenklippenstein.com/p/is-a-ground-…
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@Mylovanov Why not make the reaction to Russia’s current invasion devastating if you want to teach Russia a lesson?
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Rutte: Ukraine's NATO membership is not on the cards for now. When the war stops, Putin must know the reaction will be devastating if he tries again.
In Paris in January, a coalition of the willing agreed on what Ukraine's security guarantees should look like. 1/
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@TrashPanda08x We can’t have this because city folk don’t want this coming into their downtown through their single family zoned neighborhoods.
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We can't have this in the US because a farmer will lose 0.5% of their land and less people would drive which would be bad for oil companies. :(
Li Zexin 李泽欣@XH_Lee23
In China’s Guilin, high-speed trains have become a sightseeing attraction.
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@IndiaTales7 Israeli mob is the Russian mob is the New York mob.
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@TrentTelenko Taking shelter in mosques or praying in mosques as their religion calls them to do.
Potato, potato.
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The US-Israeli air campaign needs to be inflicting 20 times that number a day to collapse Iranian Regime Security Forces control over the Iranian population in ~3 months.
The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷@TheIranWatcher
🚨 Over 200 Basij members reportedly killed in a mosque strike in Mashhad. Reports indicate that Basij and IRGC forces had taken refuge inside Imam Sajjad Mosque during heavy bombardment. This comes amid growing evidence that these forces are using mosques, schools, and other civilian locations as cover, believing they will be shielded from Israeli and U.S. strikes. Mashhad was heavily struck tonight.
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@MulhollandL0ver The North was also very racially and culturally segregated, and initially the former slaves had hopes of integrating in the South. Reconstruction doesn’t end until 1877, and legalized segregation takes 20 more years to take hold. By the mid 1910s The Great Migration has begun.
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It’s still pretty perplexing how many freed slaves didn’t migrate North after slavery. And if not then, then definitely during Jim Crow. I would’ve been on the first smoking train to Chicago
Epic Maps 🗺️@theepicmap
USA black population by county
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@dqveed North Korea is more willing to have a female leader than America?!?
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If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Kim Jong Un is set to formally name his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, as North Korea’s next leader.
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Somebody in Iran is negotiating with the US. Maybe as soon as tomorrow in Pakistan. Not everybody in Tehran is happy about that. Maybe they will turn on each other.
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@Riley_Gaines_ Female sports were created because women wanted to compete and society wouldn’t let them.
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"Female bodies are just as strong and fast and capable as male bodies." - State Senator Lindsay Williams in PA today
If this were the case, why were women's sports created in the first place? They just say words and expect us to nod along.
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In South Korea, some tall buildings now have small gravity escape systems where you clip in, release a brake, and gently lower yourself to safety without electricity 🪂
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@KingOffX_ @TrentTelenko Iran is not in a trap.
They believe Trump will not commit ground troops and without that the US can’t break Iran’s stranglehold on world oil.
If the US attacks, Iran can force a ceasefire with strikes on oil and gas infrastructure—which is what brought Trump to the table now.
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The Iranian regime is walking straight into a U.S. trap by rejecting the proposal. Let me explain, if the U.S. sent in ground troops without a clear trigger, like Iran rejecting a 15-point ceasefire, the global backlash would tilt toward Iran. Trump knows that. He’s set it up so that if Iran refuses, he has the pretext to escalate to save the people of Iran, if it accepts, Washington still comes out ahead. Either way, the regime loses.
Open Source Intel@Osint613
BREAKING 🔴🔴 Iran State TV: Iran has rejected the U.S. 15-point plan.
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