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@mert I like to be trolled on the internet Not at the supermarket or mf gas station

americans vastly underestimate i) how outnumbered they are on the internet ii) how susceptible their population is to propaganda given their political system iii) how much the rest of the world hates trump, specially now that he's trolled pretty much all of them

@driftlesswis @FirstSquawk Telling europe to learn to militarise lol Lmao even

@FirstSquawk I pray that it is, Fuck Europe they no longer believe in western values. Learn to swim.

EUROPEAN ALLIES 'LOSING HOPE OF KEEPING AMERICA IN NATO'; SITUATION MAY BE BEYOND POINT OF REPAIR - THE ECONOMIST

@MarioNawfal Lmao?

If the Iranian regime does not accept Trump’s off-ramp, they shift from being the victim to becoming the aggressor

@FinanceLancelot Where we discover Persia is not some LatAm banana republic

The "downed pilot" was a fake cover story for a failed US military operation to capture Iran’s primary stockpile of highly enriched 60% uranium, roughly 440–970 pounds. The primary stockpile is located at Isfahan, exactly where the pilot was "lost." This explains why the US heavily bombed the area while "searching" and why the C-130s were destroyed without loss of life. The C-130s were hit on the ground while the special forces attempted to secure the material. The entire operation became a massive rescue operation to extract the soldiers.

@timsoret Cuck

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

@reggersman 🤣

Links zie je Massimo Etalle, redacteur van het extreem-rechtse periodiek 'De Dissident' en medewerker van FVD. Hij is de vriend van Lidewij de Vos en samen met haar in december '25 hoofdgast op het JFVD Kerstgala in Nijkerk, waar zij buitenlandse neo-Nazi's aan hun tafel hadden en zich door hen lieten toespreken. Deze Massimo gaat Freek Jansen vervangen die met wachtgeld op ouderschapsverlof gaat. Massimo, ongekozen en zelf een bewonderaar van het neo-Nazisme, gaat dus 12.000 Euro per maand toucheren als kamerlid, een cadeautje, want enige competentie ontbreekt, meer nog, ook hij zal het extreem-rechtse, Rusland-vriendelijke fascistische standpunt van FVD uitdragen, op kosten van de belastingbetaler. Dit is een grof schandaal en minachting van de democratische rechtsstaat. Merk ook op dat Thierry Baudet, op wie de meeste stemmen zijn uitgebracht, de Kamer heeft verlaten en een andere medewerker van de partij heeft geparachuteerd als kamerlid. Dit is puur kiezersbedrog en maakt de lijst van schandalen rond FVD langer en langer. Andere partijen verdenken FVD van wachtgeldfraude vanwege de vele personele wisselingen waarbij totaal incapabele medewerkers schijnen te worden bevoordeeld. E.e.a. is een grof misbruik van de regels die gelden voor volksvertegenwoordigers(!), en tast de politiek in diepste wezen aan. Nederland gaat hier een zware prijs voor betalen.

@J_Von_Random @esrtweet Noted

@esrtweet This is, if anything, the milquetoast and friendly take. A lot of us are looking over at the stunts European countries are pulling and wondering aloud why we aren't bombing your capitals into rubble, followed by trying your leaders for crimes against humanity.

Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this country to be fought in somebody else's country, as far away from me as possible with a nice big ocean in the way. Also relevant: I have a history of having lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. I was at one time bilingual in English and Spanish, and have been passably fluent in Italian and French as well. I could probably still find my way around London and Rome and central Paris reasonably well. So if you're tempted to tell yourselves that I'm some kind of parochial American hick, abandon that hope. All that was set-up. So that, when I tell you that almost the entirety of the US electorate, not just Trump supporters, is increasingly fed up with your shit, take me seriously. We've been cleaning up your messes and keeping the sea lanes open since 1917. And that was for you, not us - we, being very close to resource self-sufficient, don't need that investment so much. We've spent enormous amounts of blood and treasure on keeping you safe. We risked nuclear hellfire on our own cities for nearly 50 years to keep Soviet tanks from rolling through the Fulda Gap. Even since the Cold War ended, we've subsidized your socialist-playpen welfare states and disastrous immigration policies by taking the need to maintain militaries more effective than a sack of wet farts off the table. Now we've come looking for help keeping a bunch of rabid Islamic fanatics from getting nuclear weapons that are a clear and present danger to all of you even more than they are to us, and what do we hear? "Waah! It's another Republican president we don't like, just like the last half dozen of them! So we're going to sulk in a corner, except when we're biting at your ankles with crap like airspace restrictions." No. No, we're not going to take this anymore. It's not just conservatives who have had enough, it's moderates and people who used to be strong supporters of liberal internationalism. Our citizen's willingness to pay higher taxes to protect you was upward-bounded by your gratitude. Now that we know your gratitude has effectively gone to zero, so does our willingness. Don't expect this to change if the Democrats take power here. They are much less liberal-internationalist than Republicans now. While they might make mouth noises that soothe you, their overriding concern is the gaping, insatiable maw of their income transfer programs. They'll sacrifice subsidizing Europe's playpen socialism to feed their domestic version in a heartbeat. And there is no longer any significant Democratic constituency to argue against that. In truth, three decades after the Cold War ended there is no American constituency at all for the massive subsidies you get. It frankly surprises me they lasted this long, that we were this patient with your cowardice and your bitchy whining. This moment has been a long time coming. It's not Donald Trump sinking the transatlantic alliance, it is absolutely you.

@D66 @jpaternotte Hoe gaat het met de 10 nieuwe steden

In 66 seconden praat onze fractievoorzitter in de Tweede Kamer @jpaternotte je bij, over wat D66 deze week heeft gedaan voor Nederland.

@AriFleischer I don’t know who you are, but I recommend professional help.

I am and always have been a fan of France. I started studying French in 4th grade. I minored in French in college and love travelling there. But France today is a problem. France is guided by “France first.” Unlike “America First” which strengthens and benefits the world militarily, commercially and morally, France First sells out to the highest bidder. It’s the underbelly of French historical collaboration with Nazi Germany. It undermines the West, and Ukraine, as France cuts deals with Russian and is a top buyer of Russian natural gas. It’s why they work with the IRGC in Iran so French ships can transit the Straits of Hormuz. There’s no one they won’t cut a commercial deal with. Their immigration policies have turned their country substantially over to Muslims whose motives and influence are even more problematic. All that is bad enough. But now they won’t give the US overflight rights as we fight in Iran. We don’t want their troops or their ships. We want and should have overflight rights. France is a historical headache for the US and much of the west. French governments relish playing that role. France is only sometimes an ally. France is a real problem for the West.

@VicctorianChad Houston looks like a nuclear bomb ex post photo

I’d rather see my tax dollars go to defend Paris over Houston

@MaMoMVPY @Mio_Mind I replied this somewhere, didn’t insinuate anything else, and got a dozen real looking but bot-like responses saying “Ukraine did it actually”. It’s all quite sophisticated

It is very, very clear that when the X crowd need to be manipulated in a direction favourable to the Trump administration - like "it is all Europe's fault" - then the algoritmes are twisted in that direction.

@CarlZha In this thread: I’m sure it’s because the Netherlands still has colonial fantasies! And it’s not because the Dutch statistics bureau was created 50 years before the Dutch East Indies ceased being a thing!

Indonesia is now a Western country, folks.

@MorgothsReview You can’t use magic tricks on a trained magician you idiots

@MorgothsReview People pulling the west’s propaganda levers are in a tough spot When the whole western world is hit with the psyops simultaneously (Covid, China, Russia, IS, 9/11 etc) it hits hard af But you can’t hit just half and have the other sitting there belly laughing at the absurdity

My timeline is just this:

@MsMelChen You’re neither American nor European. Particularly when it comes to Europe you seem to understand practically nothing. You might consider sparing us your opinion

May I offer a different perspective on the whole transatlantic family feud brewing over NATO. Europeans are furious at what they call American unilateralism and "wars of choice," while Americans are done subsidizing allies who won't lift a finger when Washington actually needs them. Given all the sentimentality and historical baggage, there’s been a lot of bad blood and high grade insults thrown both ways. A lot of pride here is at stake. But given that I am not American or European, what I can provide is an Asian perspective. The whole thing looks very different as there are no blood ties or cultural nostalgia to pull me either way. Because of distance, the default Asian lens on America has always been colder, clearer, and far more pragmatic than the European one. Asians have never lived under the illusion that their relationship to the US is one based on shared values. If they ever did, the illusion was shattered during the Cold War. Instead, Asian nations saw the relationship to America as a cold, interest-driven bargain in a dangerous neighborhood full of communists, insurgents, and bigger powers. Fast forward to today, and this lesson still holds. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia all partner with America because their interests (not values) align - especially when it comes to countering China. These nations have reasons to be alarmed about Beijing's ambitions in the South China Sea, around Taiwan, and across the Indo-Pacific. They don't need lectures about democracy or liberal international order to see the value in US forward presence, intelligence sharing, tech transfers, and security guarantees. It's a straight-up transactional deal: the US keeps the sea lanes open and the PLA at bay. Meanwhile, Asian nations host your bases, buy your weapons, and join your alliances (Quad, AUKUS, etc.). When interests diverge, they adjust pragmatically, without the drama and meltdown. Probably not many in the West know this, but one of the forces that shaped this attitude was the US pullout of Vietnam and the rest of America’s Cold War shenanigans. Lee Kuan Yew was one of America’s loudest cheerleaders in Southeast Asia. In 1967 he flew to Washington, testified to Congress, and begged Lyndon Johnson (and later Nixon) not to cut and run in Vietnam. He warned that a hasty US exit would trigger the dominoes - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and then pressure on the rest of Southeast Asia. Singapore became a logistical hub, providing a haven for US troops on R&R, oil refineries supplying the American war machine, and Lockheed servicing aircraft. At one point, US military-related spending made up 15% of Singapore’s entire GDP. Singapore didn’t support the war because it loved American democracy but because it kept the communists tied up and bought Southeast Asia time to build up its own economy and military. Then came the pullout - the Paris Accords in 1973 and then Saigon falls in 1975. Despite all the lobbying, despite the blood and resources America had spent, domestic politics in the US (the anti-war movement, Congress, Vietnam syndrome etc.) ended it. LKY watched in disbelief as the superpower that had promised to hold the line simply walked away. The lesson was that American commitments are real only as long as they serve American interests and American voters don’t get tired. It’s a brutal one to internalize. LKY was disappointed and noted American “unreliability” but Singapore didn’t collapse into panic or anti-Americanism. They just recalibrated and kept pursuing pragmatism by building its own deterrent, diversifying partners, and later offered the US naval logistics access (Sembawang port) when the Philippines kicked them out of Subic Bay in the early 1990s. Malaysia drew the same conclusion. The Tunku was pro-Western and anti-communist early on, but Malaysia never joined SEATO and pushed ZOPFAN (Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality) instead. When the British announced their East-of-Suez withdrawal in 1968 and Nixon’s Doctrine (1969) told Asians “you defend yourselves first, we’ll just help,” Kuala Lumpur accelerated its neutralist tilt. The message was clear - don’t count on Washington to bleed indefinitely for distant allies. South Korea is similarly pragmatic but it operates under far higher stakes due to baggage from the Korean War and the ongoing North Korean threat. American intervention literally saved the South from conquest, resulting in a bond that is forged in blood. While South Korea had to learn the same lessons - that the American umbrella isn’t permanent, sharing a border with a nuclear-armed adversary forces tighter coupling with Washington. The reverberations of Nixon’s 1973 opening to Beijing cannot be understated. It shocked the entire region that America, the great anti-communist crusader, suddenly would cozy up to Mao to counter the Soviets. If Washington could flip on core principles when interests demanded it, why should smaller states pretend the relationship was about anything deeper? The core Asian critique of the European approach to dealing with America is that it is entirely bound up in moral values and civilizational kinship. This means that every disagreement feels like a betrayal and breeds resentment on both sides. Because Europe is so hyped up on abstract values, it makes NATO feel like a sacred club that America is disrespecting. Asia's interest-based lens sees alliances as tools - useful until they're not. Maybe Europe thinks the Asian approach is cynical but the irony is that this is actually what keeps Indo-Pacific partners far more reliable counterweights to China than many NATO members ever were against Russia.

@ClownWorld Looks older than 36, I’d say 46 from the face. Demeanor and style of a 17 year old though. It’s not a great combination

This man claims he looks 17. He says he’s a 36-year-old model but still gets mistaken for a teenager

@KobeissiLetter You threatened to invade European territory. Not sure what’s hard to understand

BREAKING: The US-Europe alliance is reportedly reaching a "breaking point" over the Iran War, and President Trump has "mused" to aides about backing out of NATO, per WSJ. Details include: 1. Trans-Atlantic ties between the US and Europe are "deteriorating rapidly" 2. Trump has expressed "disgust" with European allies for not joining the US-Israeli war against Iran 3. Trump is questioning whether defending Europe serves US interests at all if Europeans do not help American military interventions in the Middle East or elsewhere 4. The White House’s stance is being described as a "break" with American global strategy since WW2 US-NATO relations appear to be at new lows.

@KenGardner11 @TheStalwart Debatable

@TheStalwart I'm 13 years older than the guy on the left and I still look a lot younger than he does.

Increased seed oil consumption

@_tm3k The Vaguepost king

people will lose their entire 401k's man im not looking forward to seeing people kill themselves

@galos_gann @FistedFoucault Thanks cia psyop very helpful

@OostLog @FistedFoucault Ukraine did that, yes.

The 4 main differences between the foreign USA and the foreign China from a European perspective 1. China is not laying claim to any territory held by a EU member state 2. China has not actively pushed to start a massive land war on European soil 3. China has not purposely engaged in policies to harm European energy security 4. China does not occupy Europe via post-war treaties and forces on the ground China is not a European ally...but it is definitely not an enemy like the USA obviously is.