Mark Meyers 💛 🇺🇦 💙

@LeonardMJoyner @iamclarett First rule of friendship: treat your friends as friends. Not as a 51st state, a territory to conquer.

@iamclarett We thought we had friends, but we really had a harem of mean girls that hung around us because they liked our daddy’s money. Daddy took back the AmEx, and we found out who our friends actually were.

To our European and NATO “allies”: “You were given the choice between war, and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and now you will have war…” - Sir Winston Churchill

Niet vergeten, nooit vergeven! Lt Thierry Lotin 1Sgt Yannick Leroy Cpl Stéphane Lhoir Cpl Bruno Bassinne Cpl Louis Plescia Cpl Bruno Meaux Cpl Marc Uyttebroeck Cpl Christophe Dupont Cpl Alain Debatty Cpl Christophe Renwa En hun families, collega’s en vrienden

@IAPonomarenko They're nuts!

SUDDENLY

@holland_tom Together with his secretary of warfare Peaster Hareseth.

Excited to contemplate what it will be like for historians of 21st century America, excavating the ruins of Washington in AD 4500, & coming across this footage preserved in the ruins. “Only with the blessing of the sacred rabbit would the American people go to war.”

@johnkonrad Stop equating MAGA|Trump-Epstein to all of the US. Direct threats by your president to territorial integrity of NATO allies is the issue here. And hiding the Trump-Epstein files. Their contribution to culture is defacing the Kennedy Center and making the East Wing "great" again

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

@ELNVdc @ulrichspeck You speak for the US now? Were you elected, or is it just your feeling?

@ulrichspeck Europe needs to figure out their own problems. The US is leaving and the American people are happy about it.

The anger in Washington runs deep. While Europe needs the US to deter Russia and to support Ukraine.

@ulrichspeck @IlvesToomas The lying and entitlement in Washington runs deep. Europe might need the US, but not the Trump-Epstein regime.

@klaasm67 In een diepe plas gevallen?

En daar gaan ze. Waarom zou je dit vrijwillig doen?🤢

Ik ben ineens hier?

@WillemdePrater Ook een fascinerende kerk

Het Stadhuis van Veere is een laat‑gotisch gebouw uit de 15e eeuw, bekend om zijn rijke geschiedenis en indrukwekkende gevel. Het diende als centrum van bestuur en rechtspraak en herbergt vandaag de dag het museum van Veere met historische collecties. 1/3

@RomboutLuc Ongepantserd, dubbel zoveel bemanning (13) en zelfde dracht (30km RAP) als M109 familie. Uitgebreidere variatie Mun voor 155mm. M110 tactische nucleaire capaciteit. We hadden meer in MKs moeten houden, natuurlijk. Dan had UA gratis kunnen komen shoppen.

Of course. 🇧🇪 Army had the M110 - a 203mm artillery piece on tracked chassis - simple to maintain or to put into mobilisation reserve. 🇧🇪 Military - of course - did not.

@buitengebieden Adapt and overcome

Mistakes were made.. 😂

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand. Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes. Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports.  That is now over. Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington. Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic. Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@WhidbeyAV8 @RAF_Luton You're very much the "one wrong-way driver? there must be hundreds!" kind of person.

@RAF_Luton The RAF doesn't even know which aircraft they fly 🤣

Photo of the Day: The F22s of the Red Arrows perform a flypast over The Big Tesco in Watford (Middlesex) in their famous Wobbly Line formation to mark the start of #EasterBreak Sale Photographed from a Canberra

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@YngveS2 @RAF_Luton Stealth mode 5 is emulation.

@RAF_Luton Strangest F-22s I’ve ever seen🙄 Pucklehead

@BiankaB12 @vtchakarova All the evidence points to an eternal 48hrs as opposed to the eternal "in two weeks".

@vtchakarova Is this going to be the next 2 weeks?

Easter break

@RAF_Luton A stealthy demonstration team can save billions and billions of pounds. Even up to 80.085 billion or more.

@PixelPlatoon80 Ze gaat precies wel naar de juiste kapper.

Marginaal. x.com/RpsAgainstTrum…

@WD4963 @SammyMahdi Er wordt met geld gesmeten? Da's waarschijnlijk bij gebrek aan kogels, missiles en granaten.

De jaren 2000 hebben gebeld, @SammyMahdi, ze willen hun slogans terug.