Mike Strank 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@FT The man is quite clearly a prick.

Mark Rutte’s suggestion that European allies would eventually 'come together' to heed the US president’s call to deploy naval assets in the Strait of Hormuz has irked officials in several European capitals ft.trib.al/XH9amqC

@roy_kinsella I believe it. Haven't heard many complaining about it. We're a very strange country indeed.

🇬🇧-🇮🇪 Parliamentary Assembly has been told UK air defence of Ireland is not as much of a concern to public opinion as might be thought Irish public is “pretty prudent” & “quite pragmatic” on defence & security if international challenges are explained irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/0…

@reallouiehuey All three of those can be true at the same time.

Donald Trump is either retarded, comprimised or a liar.

@Microinteracti1 This asshole needs to go. Now.

Mark Rutte just told the world that NATO is “coming together” to secure the Strait of Hormuz. He applauded Trump’s leadership. He beamed. He practically offered to carry the man’s golf bag. There is one problem with this. Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain, and France have all stated, in plain language, that the conflict is not a NATO war.  France officially refused to participate. Trump responded by calling NATO a “paper tiger without the US,” and accused European allies of complaining about high oil prices while refusing to do anything about them.  So Rutte is applauding the leadership of a man who is simultaneously publicly humiliating him. This is a level of masochism usually reserved for advanced yoga instructors. Rutte has made a habit of irritating his European colleagues by crediting Trump personally for NATO’s defence spending increases, insisting that Spain, Italy, Belgium and Canada would never have moved without Trump’s pressure.  His audience, being Spanish, Italian, Belgian and Canadian, sat there and absorbed this. One imagines they were delighted. El Pais has been particularly scathing, questioning the competence of the current NATO and EU leadership and concluding that European leadership has failed to provide coherent direction during the Iran crisis.  They named names: von der Leyen, Kallas, Rutte. The whole top table. Rutte has also dismissed proposals from Manfred Weber and others for European-led security structures independent of Washington, insisting the transatlantic partnership remains “essential.”  The timing, given that Washington is currently calling NATO a paper tiger and questioning whether it would ever help America, is not ideal. And here is the real engine of the absurdity: Rutte told Fox News the good news is that 22 countries are “joining forces to realize Trump’s vision.”  Trump’s vision. He said that out loud. On Fox News. To Trump’s primary audience. Mark Rutte is not stupid. He is, in fact, quite clever. But there is a difference between diplomatic pragmatism and turning up to your own roast with extra tomatoes. Every European and Canadian leader watching him on television yesterday knows that Trump just used the Hormuz crisis to explicitly threaten to deprioritize NATO support for Ukraine. Rutte’s response was to applaud the leadership. It is, as a communications strategy, the geopolitical equivalent of saying the food is delicious as the restaurant burns down around you. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Osint613 @rssndr Trump-Licker.

For the record, to every European saying America is doing this for Israel: no. America is doing the dirty work Europeans were too scared to do, opening a strait your economies depend on because your governments couldn’t stomach confronting a radical Islamic regime that’s been holding the world hostage for years. This had to happen before messianic Islamists got nuclear weapons and ICBMs capable of hitting every city on earth. That clock was running. Someone had to stop it. That’s something you clearly don’t understand.

@CattardSlim The Taliban didn't have a navy or an airforce and they still booted America out of their country.

Taco Trump is such a bad negotiator, that the "Art of the Deal" is literally just Trump negotiating with himself while Iran ignores him. 😂

@ML3democrats It's less about his age and more about his nature. An obnoxious pig is an obnoxious pig – no matter what age.

Macron says that "Europe cannot depend on the mood of a 79-year-old man". I don’t know about you but I fully agree with him. Do you?

@DannyMcDai567 If I was you, I'd ask the doctor for a lower dose.

Your profile photo is a Vietnam era yank soldier, these people murdered and slaughtered and raped the Vietnamese, and still lost the war. The fact you suppprt this is not surprising.

@kvistp Fuck Rutte... the arse licker.

The leader of NATO calling for Europe to join a war of aggression. He just gave every piece of russian propaganda legitimacy.

@YourAnonCentral Yippee!!

MAGA says it's going to boycott Spain and never travel there, another victory for Spain.

FineGael & Fianna Fail are consistently voted into power. The public knows their changing stance on defence but votes them back in regardless. So your desperate claims about polls are meaningless. It's the ballot box that counts. Or do you still want to have the 'Armalite' in the other hand?

@PaulyNRC @NATO_SOF Every Irish poll regarding supporting #NATO has being soundly beaten!

This week, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day alongside our NATO SOF partner, Ireland 🇮🇪 In a moment of tradition, SOFCOM's Deputy Commander, Major General Tony Turner, received a shamrock sprig to wear on his uniform — a symbol of trust and shared commitment. ☘️ We also saluted the professionalism and dedication of Irish Special Operations Forces — a highly valued partner making strong contributions to NATO’s mission success. Together, we ensure collective defence. 💪🛡️ Sláinte agus beannachtaí! @defenceforces

@DannyMcDai567 @Crob_2025 @NATO_SOF I bet you 'triple lock' your toilet.

@c_h_e_m @adammocklerr NATO is a legally binding DEFENSIVE treaty. Not a gang that clubs together for unprovoked OFFENSIVE attacks when a single member decides to become delinquent.

@adammocklerr It doesn't matter "how NATO technically works". I don't have a signed partnership contract with my friends... But when I call them to help me move some stuff, the come nonetheless. Don't hide behind some NATO articles.. Countries could help if they wanted. They just don't want.

CONSERVATIVE: why won’t NATO help us MOCKLER: that’s not how NATO works

Better late, than never, I suppose. Ireland's talent ecosystem is ideal for supporting the defence sector.

A European blow to Trump — Spanish NATO troops in Iraq pull out and head home via Turkey.

@BrittanyinTexas I think being a liar is a bigger disgrace than simply asking a question.

PLEASE… more reporter questions like this.🔥

@DannyMcDai567 @NATO_SOF Sinn Fein – The Putin Arse-Licking Party

@MikeStrank @NATO_SOF Fuck off you #NATO 🐀 And you forgot the fada over the é its Sinn Féin 👍

@JamesMelville @ClarkeMicah You wouldn't change the name of the 'Department of Defense' to the 'Department of War' – unless you were planning to go to war.

“We can - and must - stand up to Donald Trump. Before this war wrecks the world.” ~ Peter Hitchens / @ClarkeMicah dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

BREAKING: ONE OF MACRON’S GENERALS TELLS DONALD TRUMP TO “GO FUCK HIMSELF” “First he threatens to invade a European country, Greenland, and now he is begging for our help. He can go FUCK himself.” 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷