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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

@EdwardCunn @keithfsolomon @marlene4719 Isn´t that why he is actually so anti? Because they did put an off shore windpakr in view of one of his golf courses?^^

@keithfsolomon @marlene4719 Then we should get more windmills. Especially to put around orange man’s golf courses

… AND NO MORE WINDMILLS! I love how he hates wind energy because he’s too stupid to understand it.

@FromTsion @ZaksMetaX @DrLoupis__ He is Catholic - he joined the Catholic Church in 2019, so that makes the Pope the head of his church and his Pontifex Maximus.

@ZaksMetaX @DrLoupis__ Not every Christian is catholic. In fact I suspect that most Christians are not catholic. How that wall he's kissing, it's called the wailing wall or western wall. It's an altar unto ba'al, and is used to control the people/leaders who kiss it. Shatter the wall, end Israel.

JD Vance: “I will never bow to the Pope or kiss his ring"

@fellagund @LarryJCovingto2 @NotAvgLiberal I grew up in an area that housed a lot of BFG regiments with families in multiple towns, no issues here. Some pubs were out of bounds and there were certain pubs where everyone stood to attention, even Germans, when the MP rolled in to collect some drunken tw*ts.

@LarryJCovingto2 @NotAvgLiberal Yeah, there are many leftist retards in Germany, but still better than be afraid of your government. Government should be afraid of people, not the opposite.

Been in Europe almost 2 weeks. Seen a lot of armed police officers, A lot of heavily armed military personnel. Not a single one wearing a mask. Not a single one asked to see mine, my wife’s or my son’s papers / passports. Not a single one detaining or beating the shit out of anyone. Yeah… America is clearly fucked up.

@AnnLeadbeater3 @Indy259 @ChillaxBcn @MichaelRosenYes @Shieldmaid8 But all these 2016 passports now are near the expiration date, so people who still have one will feel the consequences. It’s not as if it’s a new issue, though. There have been multiple articles with people complaining about the nasty EU denying them entry over the same situation

@Indy259 @ChillaxBcn @MichaelRosenYes @Shieldmaid8 👍There can't be many left with over 10 years on them. Was it 2016 they stopped adding leftover months.

Ha! I’ve just been refused entry onto a plane from Stansted to Bologna because my passport issue date is March 2016. The expiry date is August 2026 but the rule is 10 years from issue date. Another Brexit benefit. Apparently. Go home now.

@RansomeBrett @Merl41101763 @maddenifico Respect is earned. And Trump’s behavior doesn’t do anything to earn him respect. He did everything to alienate even close allies and his erratic actions pushed them so far away that he can’t even request their assistance anymore.

@Merl41101763 @maddenifico Name one country right now that doesn’t respect the leader of the US?

In the last 36 hours, between 15 and 20 ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz. The ships are from China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran. Once again, the entire world is laughing at Trump. 😂🤣👇

@ClarkonlyClark @RandyGoat If they export a large amount of crudes or gas, whilst not even producing enough for the internal market, petrol pumps will run short and prices will go up. The US is dependent on imported oil to keep up with their own needs.

@RandyGoat That’s easy…. Sell the rest of the world oil at a higher price and use that extra price to subsidize our price at our pumps to make our gas cheaper….. aka the rest of the world is help paying for our gas. #Maga #allwayswinning

The U.S. produces 13.6 million barrels of oil per day and imports 6.3 million. The U.S. uses 20.8 million a day. Already a deficit. I'm paying around $1 more per gallon as opposed to February. Someone please explain to me how our gas prices will go down if we are selling our oil to the world.

@duchenne @inversiones0210 @homeroboscan Don’t forget the fact that 30% of the world’s fertilizer used to pass through the Strait, too.

@inversiones0210 @homeroboscan Tous les pays du Golfe peuvent être approvisionnés sans détroit. Partout : zones portuaires fret, camion, train, logistique ou avion cargo. Le vrai pb concerne produits pétroliers & gaz qui bloquent Koweït, Qatar & 50% prod. pétrolière des Émirats & Arabie Saoudite.

ULTIMA HORA Emiratos Arabes Unidos ya no necesita el estrecho de Ormuz. Comenzó a sacar millón y medio de barriles de petróleo diarios a través del oleoducto Abu Dabhi-Fujairah, de 380 Km. de longitud, construído con apoyo de China al costo de 4.200 millones de dólares. Buena parte de ese petróleo va a China y la India que se desligan de Irán. Con este oleoducto, Teherán se queda sin la presión que ejercía controlando el paso del petróleo árabe por el estrecho de Ormuz.

@ChillaxBcn Is he packing up and taking everyone back home with him?

US Vice President Vance has landed in Ramstein, Germany 🤮

@ZIYADLOGOS @ABMFrontier @Parodyjeffx Samaria was a biblical region in today´s West Bank, not in Lebanon. Lebanon lies north of Israel, Samaria was centrally located in the West Bank between Galilee and Judea. Not that it makes much difference as settlers push out the locals in both areas.

@ABMFrontier @Parodyjeffx wtf is Samaria

@QuantumDvir @World_Affairs11 Does that pipeline also transport LNG, fertilizers, methanol and sulfur?

@World_Affairs11 This is how you handle bullies. Build alternatives and ignore their threats. The Iranian regime must be fuming.

BREAKING: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia fully restores East-West oil pipeline, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz and pumping 7,000,000 barrels per day. Saudi Arabia says it needs no more strait of Hormuz.

@JesseJesus999 @FurkanGozukara You forgot NATO sans US. Canada is a founding member of NATO.

@FurkanGozukara The US won't get far with Canada. If orange man and his minions give it a go, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and pretty much every other commonwealth nation will take sides with Canada. Good luck with that.

Terrifying revelation. An expert defense editor reveals Donald Trump is threatening to militarily invade and annex Canada and Greenland! Denmark is already drafting war plans against a US invasion. The Trump administration is acting like a rogue imperialist power.

@YuleKnow @patriottakes Also a lot of fertilizer is exported through the Hormuz Strait.^^

@patriottakes He tried to place 65% tariffs on Canadian fertilizer.

Trump: “I am watching fertilizer prices CLOSELY during our FIGHT FOR FREEDOM in Iran. The United States will not accept PRICE GOUGING from the fertilizer monopoly! American Farmers, we have your back!”

@rhelmey @Microinteracti1 @PeterCorless @BasedMikeLee Go on, and find out who the bases in Europe serve and why, especially the airbases in Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Ramstein (with USAFRICOM HQ & US Airlift branch) and the largest US Military Hospital/Trauma Center in Landstuhl (& the even larger one under construction)

@Microinteracti1 @PeterCorless @BasedMikeLee So you’re good if we take our marbles and go home?

It’s Time To Leave NATO

@arschpirat @JohnMcD51511070 @Microinteracti1 They don´t need Ramstein for our defense - they need it as a turntable to the Middle East and Northern Africa. USAFRICOM HQ, a US Airlift branch & the largest hospital/trauma center outside the US on site (and they are currently building an even bigger one) should give a hint...

@JohnMcD51511070 @Microinteracti1 Please elaborate how the American tax payer protected us by kicking stones in Ramstein 🤡

The Most Expensive Mistake Since Someone Invaded Russia in Winter For years, Trump told Europe it was freeloading. Not paying its share. Weak, comfortable, ungrateful. He said it so often it became received wisdom, carved into the MAGA catechism as though Moses himself had brought it down from the mountain. The numbers do not cooperate. European NATO members spent $454 billion on defence in 2024. Russia, the actual threat, spent $149 billion. Europe outspends the aggressor three to one. But that $454 billion is the floor, not the ceiling. Trump uses the narrowest possible accounting definition and presents it as the complete picture. European support to Ukraine’s armed forces alone exceeds €63 billion. None of that appears in the number he waves around at rallies. Meanwhile, America pays roughly 16 percent of NATO’s common budget. Germany pays a similar share. The rest of the American defence budget funds 750 bases across 80 countries and the considerable overhead of running a global empire nobody formally asked Washington to build. At The Hague in 2025, Trump got his great concession. Europeans committed to 5 percent of GDP on defence by 2035. He called it a historic achievement. He was right, in the same way that a man who kicks over a hornets nest is right to call it a significant event. Because 80 percent of European defence spending already flows to domestic suppliers. The EU now formally targets 60 percent of all procurement from European manufacturers by 2035. Germany directs 92 percent of new defence purchases to European suppliers. American systems receive 8 percent. Berlin was once one of Washington’s most reliable arms customers. It has quietly stopped being one, and European capitals are not embarrassed about why. European weapons arrive without usage restrictions, without congressional conditions, without the risk that a change in Washington renders your equipment politically unusable. Ukraine taught Europe that lesson at considerable cost. The American defence research machine runs partly on allied procurement. When Europeans buy American hardware, they co-fund the next generation of American military technology. When they stop, that bill lands on the American taxpayer. Trump demanded Europe pay more. Europe is paying more, to itself, building the industrial base that makes American partnership optional rather than necessary. He wanted customers. He created competitors. The arithmetic was never complicated. It just required someone to actually do it. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@frank_le @gepardtatze @realKTMcFarland Die spanische Regierung sieht den Krieg als illegal und völlkerrechtswidrig an. Ich meine, Italien auch. Zumindest haben die die Nutzung ebenfalls verboten.

@gepardtatze @realKTMcFarland In Spanien war es doch so. Oder habe ich das falsch gelesen ? Die NATO ist nicht nur Deutschland...

NATO insists US doesn't need to own Greenland; having bases there is good enough for natl security. But NATO countries just refused us access to OUR bases to refuel, they won't even let our planes overfly their airspace. They just proved the point why we DO need to own Greenland. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@em_Lazzy all the while he is demanding NATO sends troops to re-open the strait that was open before he dumped bombs on schoolgirls and is supposedly open again after his ceasefire deal (which allowed Iran to actually collect toll from the ships...)

Let me get this straight…. Trump has threatened to bomb an entire civilization, threatened the Pope, threatened to pull out of NATO(again), and threatened Greenland (again), all in the span of 24 hours?

@_SonOfTheDesert @archer_rs @casparterhorst Declaring war on Iran would also have needed Congressional approval.^^

@archer_rs @casparterhorst He can’t leave NATO. It requires ratification from Congress.

There is where NATO now is. Trump has set a deadline for European countries to militarily open the strait of Hormuz, "within the next few days" or the USA will leave NATO. So he screwed up and he's now begging for Europe to fix his cock up.

@craigzjohnson @SlimeNotSoShady @ManiamAkash I think they are in a gridlock. From We will take Kyjiw in 3 days to We need Trump to help us to get Ukraine to sign over whole of Donbas after 4 years.

@SlimeNotSoShady @ManiamAkash is russia losing agains ukraine or conquering it?

Under Trump, the US being in NATO is entirely symbolic. He won't defend Europe. He starts wars without consulting allies. He threatens to annex allied territory. He helps russia. So if he leaves, what exactly does Europe lose?

@fthegurus @outcast11004 @FaytuksNetwork Trump already said multiple times that the US would NOT come to Europe´s defense if they were attacked, long before the US and Israel ganged up and lit the fuse in the Middle East. NATO was not consulted ahead of the attacks. He just assumed he could just use bases and airspace.

@outcast11004 @FaytuksNetwork I don’t want to die in a stupid war neither. And as an European I understand that we need the US in NATO to deter Russia from doing anything stupid

BREAKING: President Trump has set a deadline for European allies to provide concrete military support in the Strait of Hormuz, including the deployment of warships, Der Spiegel reports. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte informed European countries that political pledges made since the start of the conflict are no longer sufficient.

@JustinTwell78 @rayrich5528 @ajphelo @torbenmarkp With Rutte at the helm, I think NATO would have actually helped in some way, IF someone had talked to them beforehand, instead of waking up to bombs already dropping and being told US already won and "we don´t need NATO". (Not that I would agree with it, though)

@rayrich5528 @ajphelo @torbenmarkp Yep. Now if America was attacked ala 9/11 then yes, NATO would need to step in. Not when America strikes first then gets shitty because it didn’t work and wants a scapegoat, which is what NATO would have been if they stepped in.

If the US don’t need NATO, then why is Trump acting like a big cry-baby, begging for help, and complaining when he doesn’t get it? Can anyone explain that?