Dan Brusca

@janbruckner @NoContextBrits Well that's interesting. Maybe I'll give it a go when I visit Prague.

@danbrusca @NoContextBrits Mixed carrots, parsley roasted with beef and softened by cream

British cuisine. Best in the world.

@SamosaPoha @NoContextBrits Us Brits will put salt on everything, but I wish we wouldn't. Cook the ingredients properly and you don't need it.

@NoContextBrits British cuisine is the reason the phrase “add salt to taste” was invented.

@janbruckner @NoContextBrits Is the yellow substance egg?

@NoContextBrits Czech s better

@NoContextBrits A bit too much of it for me, but otherwise can't fault it.

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

This is called "panicking"

Old men will be the death of us.

@BergqvistRene @alanrosca @Mylovanov It's not that. It's that Trump is so toxic that being seen to support him is politically impossible, all the more so given America is perceived as a bigger threat to Europe than Iran is.

@alanrosca @Mylovanov Now - first of all I am not living in any of the said countries - but I can figure out why they might not be too happy being used as a staging ground. If I can have you draw a circle of given radii from Iran and see when it hits southern Europe and USA, that might be a hint.

Sikorski: When the U.S. went into the Vietnam War, the UK did not join. NATO has survived these problems before, like France leaving the Joint Command and the Iraq war. We are free countries. We have public opinion. 1/

@alanrosca @Mylovanov How is it sabotaging Trump's war when he's explicitly told Europe he doesn't need them? You can't have it both ways.

@Mylovanov The issue here is not “not joining” US’s war but trying to sabotage that war by blocking their airspace. Simply letting planes fly over their countries doesn’t cost them anything. Their right to do it, but expect consequences.

💥What we’ve all feared is happening: Hungarian Russia expert András Rácz wrote three days ago about a potential Russia-backed false flag attack in Serbia targeting the gas pipeline to Hungary. The same information had already reached multiple journalists, including myself, weeks earlier, from sources connected to Hungarian government circles. Now Viktor Orbán has announced that Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić informed him about “explosives of devastating power” found at the gas pipeline connecting the two countries. Orbán and his propaganda machine are already amplifying the news everywhere, with the prime minister convening his security cabinet. It remains unclear what measures the government might take using this alleged false flag operation as a pretext. But if the second part of the information we received also proves true, Orbán could declare a state of emergency, significantly affecting the election campaign—which he is currently losing—and potentially disrupting the organization of the April 12 election. The opposition Tisza Party has been widening its lead to 15–20 points, if not more. Orbán accuses them of being "Ukrainian agents" for months. His propaganda would very soon link the Serbian false-flag both to Ukraine and the Tisza Party, I have no doubts about that. I encourage all foreign reporters covering the Hungarian election to pay close attention and not fall for the government’s propaganda or the narratives pushed by its pundits on the Orbán government payroll, including here on X. The situation could soon be very serious.

Burn almost as good as Ust-Luga

Cucked boomer faggots and sycophants. Every last one of them.

Musk really had it all: He could have been one of the coolest guys on the planet if he had just stayed a goofy tech and space billionaire. Instead, he chose to back fascism and become a threat to democracy

It's more like American failure. The US, particularly under Trump, has become more and more hostile towards any kind of international cooperation. This has allowed China to capture international organisations that the US could have dominated if it had the will to do so. America just walked off the field.

What Europe gets wrong: Nearly every major international organization and multilateral body has been captured by China and its CCP proxies. Trump is responding by building a parallel system to bypass them altogether. Many Europeans interpret this as destabilization, when it is better understood as adaptation to institutional failure.

Successive American administrations were happy to see Europe under-invest in defence because it preserved American military hegemony in Europe. Now Europe is spending more, Americans are whining because they want to spend money on European weapons instead of American ones. You want Europe to stand on its own two feet yet when it does, by not supporting Trump’s war in Iran, you whine about that too. America just wants Europe to do whatever America says. Well, guess what. Those days are over. This is the reality of America First.

I appreciate a lot of the comments I’ve gotten over the last 24 underscoring that the President has been attacking NATO for years. And my answer to that is, yep, he shouldn’t do that. NATO has a venerable history. Here are my questions for his critics: * Did Trump cause Europe’s fail in the Balkans? * Did Trump cause Europe to prioritize Russian oil? * Did Trump cause Europe to build Nordstream? * Did Trump make Europe (and Canada) stop investing in defense? Yeah. NATO allies stopped behaving like true partners a while ago. And that’s not on Trump.

All this NATO-bashing is pure cope from people who assumed war with Iran would be a cakewalk - just like Afghanistan/Iraq - and who, having discovered once again it wasn’t, now need 2 things: 1 urgent help to clean up the mess they’ve made and 2 a scapegoat.NATO will do nicely

@AriFleischer The West's biggest problem is Donald Trump. Nothing, nowhere and nobody comes close.

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.

@AriFleischer "There's no one they won't cut a commercial deal with." So, just like Donald Trump then?

Now where would Hezbollah be getting fiber-optic FPV drones from?

This will make for a good movie in a few years.