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@MichaelAArouet Not normal behaviour by American leaders

JD Vance was right in Budapest this week. The foreign state interference in Hungarian elections is really unprecedented.

@johnkonrad The empire is on fire 🔥

What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit? What if the real drag on the Republic isn’t taxes, isn’t debt, isn’t even the deficit, it’s Europe? What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to cancel? What if “burden sharing” is the most expensive euphemism in the English language? What if the City of London cabal is draining our banks? What if the advice from globalists is terrible advice that’s costing us big? What if every European basing agreement, every forward-deployed brigade, every Ramstein runway, every Aviano hangar, every Souda Bay pier is a tax American workers pay so Berlin can run a welfare state and Paris can run a 35-hour week? What if foreign aid to Europe isn’t aid, it’s tribute, flowing the wrong way? What if transporting the vast majority of trade on European owned ships costs more than we realize? What if the NGO archipelago in Brussels, Geneva, and The Hague is just a money-laundering loop where US taxpayer dollars get rinsed through a “civil society” conference and returned as lectures about our democracy? What if the UN isn’t a parliament of man, it’s a Manhattan timeshare with diplomatic plates, an accounting black hole, and a Human Rights Council chaired by people who’d jail you for tweeting this? What if “the rules-based international order” was always code for: Americans build it, Americans pay for it, Americans bleed for it, and Europeans grade it? What if $36 trillion in debt looks a lot smaller the second you stop underwriting a continent that sneers at you in three languages? What if you zeroed out the Europe line, the NATO line, the UN line, the NGO line, and woke up tomorrow in a country with the fiscal headroom to rebuild every shipyard, every foundry, every rail line, and every Navy hull we’ve let rot since the Cold War ended? What if American tourists went to American cathedrals, American opera, American museums, American cities instead. I’m not saying I believe all of it. I’m saying maybe, just maybe, we could pay down all our debt and wouldn’t have to pay taxes at all if we cut Europe loose.

@BiereHQ @aus_pill War is one big crime scene, everything is a crime........we should respect our veterans.

@aus_pill >shot unarmed civilians >lost his medals >murderer >jail for life Ben Robert-smith

Ben Roberts-Smith > 6’7, 250lbs (200cm, 110kg) > Taliban described him as the ‘big soldier with blue eyes’ > Fought with crusader’s cross patch > SASR, Victoria’s Cross recipient

@mirandadevine I take it as a badge of honour if Trump is calling us out

Australia has fought and bled and died alongside the US in every war and one feckless Trump-deranged Labor government has damaged that relationship - hence Trump's callout today.

@johnkonrad Niave comment as always it's from an American, ( yeah rah rah America ), go and look at the polish armed forces, then add the Finlands, then chuck in a few French, Germans and Brits.....750, 000 professional s......

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.

@iAnonPatriot Stupid low IQ American again.....back to school for you

Leave NATO and allow Russia to take Europe.

@KobeissiLetter Please leave, all of Europe wants you to leave, stop threatening and just fuck off.

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.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says he is NOT going to reveal what Iran is in for if they harm our missing pilot I’d imagine FIRE AND FURY is on the menu. Make the wise choice, Iran. Do NOT take American serviemembers hostage.

@GuntherEagleman Please please leave........

I don’t want my taxpayer money going to NATO! It’s useless. Spain, England, France and Italy sold us out. Time to leave! Not another penny.

@McFaul He called Europe cowards, said we stayed back from the fighting, what a disgusting man

I regret that some NATO allies are denying us access to our bases in their countries. I also regret that the US president threatened to invade and annex NATO countries. This ridiculous Trump policy is obviously negatively impacting our national security now. I hope both of these issues within NATO can be overcome soon.

@forager_gareth Wise rates are fantastic 😊

My advice, get Wise. Use it for travel needs, use it for overseas-sourced purchases (even if "priced" in AUD, as you'll often get stung for conversion anyway). As both a proselytising user and a shareholder, I'm biased. But not for no reason.

@markomihkelson Trump would never take on Putin

It’s hard to follow the logic - if there is any. Russia helps Iran kill Americans, and Iran helps Russia kill people in a free-world nation. What should the response be - punish Russia directly or indirectly? Instead, the White House treats Russia like a normal country.

@MykhailoRohoza What does Putin have over him ??????

Trump issued a stern address to Ukraine, declaring that all weapons should be redirected to the war in Iran. He also suggested that Ukrainian soldiers could help him, since the war in Ukraine “no longer makes sense” and it’s time to negotiate with Putin. The U.S. leader proposed the following solution: all troops and weapons from Ukraine would be sent to Iran so that Trump could carry out an operation against Tehran using Ukrainian forces. In return, Russia would cease fire in Ukraine and return the occupied territories.

@rabois Wow , you know a alot of exact details, no fog of war for you, amazing.......

Goals achieved: 1. Iranian Navy eliminated. 2. Air Force eliminated. 3. 48 of the 50 top evil leqders dead. 4. Less than 80 launchers remaining w a shelf life of one fire 5/ No capability to enrich an nuclear material probably for a decade (inputs destroyed like water plant, steel and most sights). 6. Very military ballistic missles supply left w no ability to produce more. 7. Some drones remain w negligible ability manufacture new. 8. Unified Gulf States against Iran except Oman 9. Chinese weapons proven to be dysfunctional. 10. Middle Eastern states lining up for business relations w Israel.

@mattvanswol The empire is on fire....

I've been holding back on this, but I'm just gonna let loose... So many of these "protestors" here in Asheville NC have had their lives DRAMATICALLY improved by President Trump. Trump's FEMA resolved 80% of ALL open Hurricane Helene cases Biden left sitting 116 days... in 5 DAYS. Trump's DOT gave nearly $2 BILLION to fix roads and bridges in WNC, which is the largest Emergency Relief allocation in federal highway history. Trump's DOT reopened I-40 in 5 months. Everyone said it would take years. Trump's HUD approved $1.4 billion for Helene housing recovery so fast that even Democrat Governor Josh Stein publicly thanked him for it. Trump's USDA delivered $221 million directly to WNC farmers who lost everything. Trump gave NC 6 full months of 100% federal cost coverage — one of the longest in FEMA history. The same people driving on rebuilt roads, drinking clean water, living the comeback... are out here protesting the man who made most of it happen. JUST GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!!! It's not that hard. He knew you hated him before the storm. He knew that when he landed in Asheville. And guess what? HE SHOWED UP AND HELPED YOU ANYWAYS!!!!!! And today you grabbed your little sign and costumes, got in your little Subaru, you drove on those rebuilt roads, over those rebuilt bridges, passed rebuilt houses and rebuilt parks, to protest a man who helped your city. You look stupid, out of touch, and insanely ungrateful.

@Ivankatrumpne Trump does not go to church, never has , never will

If you’re praying for President Trump’s safety, reply with “AMEN” 🙏

@its_The_Dr Donny loves Russia

Karoline Leavitt: “While pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power, Barack Hussein Obama, in private, went to great and nefarious lengths to sow discord among the public and sabotage his successor, President Trump. The new evidence released by the Director of National Intelligence confirms that the Obama administration manufactured and politicized intelligence, which was later used as justification for baseless smears against President Trump — an effort to delegitimize his victory before he even took the oath of office. The truth is that President Trump never had anything to do with Russia, and the Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetrated on the American people from the very beginning. The worst part is that Obama knew the truth, as did all the other officials involved, including former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and many others.”

@itstaylorsmith9 @nexta_tv Another ignorant American pretending they know everything about the middle east, it's beyond complicated

A NATO member threatening to attack US partners in order to shield Iran is everything you need to know about the current state of Turkish foreign policy. They will happily sabotage the entire strategic posture of the West in the Middle East if it gives them another excuse to bomb Kurdish groups.

🇹🇷 Turkey warns the US: if Kurdish forces take part in strikes on Iran — a military response will follow immediately Earlier, the US had discussed supporting Kurdish groups for operations in western Iran — but the plans were complicated by Turkey’s position, which sees this as a risk of separatism near its borders. According to the Türkiye newspaper, Ankara also warned Kurdish groups directly: any involvement in operations against Iran would immediately trigger Turkish military action.

@GrindeOptions American says what

The U.S. and Israel have the momentum and have had it since the start of the war. If you think Iran has the upper hand, you’re restarted.

@JoeySalads Wish I could see the future like you 😜

If Trump opens the Strait of Hormuz by force, we will see an absolute historic economic bull run.