@ulrichspeck Wrong take. The issue is reliability: say you do everything Trump says, do you really think he will respect any agreement with you? (I mean, if your last name is not Putin)
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Hoban Washburne 🇨🇦
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@TrueGradient
Space, football and freedom: I will not trade any of them. 🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦
The 'Verse شامل ہوئے Mart 2015
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Europe is dependent on the US in many ways:
- Ukraine
- own security
- tech
- trade
Yes, Trump is difficult to say the least.
But is it a smart strategy to offend him without necessity?
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
Trump: This was a test for NATO. You can help us. You don't have to. If you don't do that, we're going to remember. Remember this a number of months from now. Have a great expression: "Never forget."
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@NatalkaKyiv If it really struck (or better, destroy) a hydrocracking unit, that could be more devastating than everything else combined. The HCU is a massive profit driver. It would be even better if the distillation tower also got hit.
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💪🇺🇦 Ust-Luga: Results 🇺🇦
Ukrainian UAVs struck:
▪️ 3 oil tankers: Aisopos (Greece), Sea Hymn (Marshall Islands), Fiesta (Sierra Leone);
▪️ 5 storage tanks containing fuel oil, gas condensate, and fuel;
▪️ 3 technological units, including a hydrocracking unit;
▪️ 3 berths, including a pier structure, a utility building, and a dormitory;
▪️ 2 patrol boats under construction for the border service coast guard at the Vyborg Shipyard;
▪️ a port crane and a tender site at the "Portenergo" berth;
▪️ an electrical distribution substation.
Indeed, the most destructive attack on a Russian port during the entire war.
Source: ASTRA
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@BohuslavskaKate - Captain Smith, is the Titanic sinking?
- As of now, we're still afloat
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JOURNALIST: The Washington Post just reported that the Pentagon is considering redirecting weapons intended for Ukraine to the Middle East. What do you know about it?
RUTTE: Crucial U.S. equipment, including interceptors, is continuing to flow into Ukraine through PURL.
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NEW!! NATO chief says, weapons still flowing to Ukraine, despite reports that US is considering diverting weapons to the Middle East.
"The critical support from the United States into Ukraine paid for by allies continues to flow," Rutte says
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@slantchev I said this when Trump won the last election, I will repeat it:
The USA will end up stopping any support for Ukraine, and selling weapon components to Russia.
Not full systems, but critical components. Mark my words.
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And now, the incompetent corrupt US administration that is peddling “security guarantees” against a future Russian aggression by demanding that Ukraine make enormous concessions to the current Russian aggression is also blackmailing Ukraine by threatening to steal weapons we already sold it through the PURL initiative.
The way we are going, we will be establishing Lend-Lease for Russia by the summer and threatening to jointly attack Kyiv by the fall.
Dzis Maksym@DzisMaksym
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky: We in Europe need to have the full capability to produce all types of air defense systems and missiles for them. In particular, means of protection against drones, cruise missiles and ballistics. We cannot rely on the military-industrial complex of other partners. We must be confident in our own base here in Europe. Please let us continue this work and accelerate it. And while we are building this capacity, please remember that we need protection against Russian missiles every day. And I am grateful to those of you who actively support us within the PURL. This is extremely important.
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@RobLikesJets Agreed. F-35 might be a better fighter, but who cares if you're binding yourself to the whims of the vendor? We need the Gripen.
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Untrustworthy as a weapons supplier within NATO. F35 contract with Canada is one step closer to falling over the cliff. Gripens are a better choice as a northern interceptor for NORAD commitments, however the rest of the fleet for NATO is at risk because of the U.S. itself.
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦@IAPonomarenko
I mean, how the hell is this even legal? Was it part of the contract that the seller is entitled to say “screw you and the money you've paid us, we're talking these weapons for ourselves”?
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@ShaunPinnerUA Not even "funds allocated". It's money paid by Europe/Canada as part of PURL. It was never American money.
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It’s getting beyond a joke, you can now actually steal funds allocated to Ukraine?
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦@IAPonomarenko
I mean, how the hell is this even legal? Was it part of the contract that the seller is entitled to say “screw you and the money you've paid us, we're talking these weapons for ourselves”?
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@JSchneid99 @amanpour We know, but reality is that nobody outside of the US counts the votes. Do you count how many voted for Orbán b4 saying Hungary does this or that? Again, nothing personal 👍.
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@TrueGradient @amanpour I agree, the stain of dump will definitely outlive me and likely my children. But we have to start somewhere.
For what it's worth, it wasn't half of the country that voted dump in - it was a plurality. But it pains me that we had so many bigots vote for a bigot.
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@anders_aslund The really important piece now is, how serious is the rest of NATO (the US is essentially out it) about Art 5?
New NATO, ironclad commitment: if the Baltics are attacked, the rest respond militarily. Otherwise, get out. And weapons production in overdrive, now.
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No NATO country can believe in Article 5 after this Trump statement.
Trump has effectively ended the ultimate objective of NATO. Only the organization remains.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: “NATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP WITH THE LUNATIC NATION, NOW MILITARILY DECIMATED, OF IRAN. THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT ‘NEVER FORGET’ THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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@JSchneid99 @amanpour Here in 🇨🇦, Americans have been friends and family forever. We did love you guys.
But something is broken now. That crazy half of your country is doing all this in your name, showing your flag. That stain will not go away in 222 days. Truly sorry🙇♂️.
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@TrueGradient @amanpour Many of us do, but are currently powerless to prevent it as Congress is doing nothing about it.
In 222 days, I expect dump to be neutered by an historic election rebuff.
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@RealJohnShoe @amanpour The contract under which NATO paid for it and the US said it would sell it. The contract is called PURL, what you're doing is called stealing money.
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@jimsciutto Jim, time to spell it as it is: we (Canada/Europe/SK/Japan/Taiwan/Australia) are not US allies anymore. We have been dumped.
US allies today: Russia - Belarus - NK - Israel - Gulf states. Those are the guys you hang with.
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What is the strategic consistency in appeasing Russia while it threatens Europe and going to war with Iran as it threatens the Mideast? Each is surrounded by U.S. allies and each has attacked U.S. allies. Moreover, Russia is aiding Iran in the war, including providing intel to attack U.S. forces.
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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA Nonsense. Orbán gets a ton of money from the EU, and Russia needs a mole inside it.
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🇭🇺 Hungary may leave the EU if Orban wins the elections, — Hungarian opposition politician Peter Magyar
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@Rix6145 @JayinKyiv The US didn't give ANY F-16s to Ukraine and it only gave 31 old tanks.
I know many great Americans that I love, it's the stupid ones that drive me nuts.
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@JayinKyiv Send Tanks : We did.
Send F16's : We did.
Send Patriots : We did.
Send Javelines : We did.
In return we asked you to accept the reality on the ground that Donbas was lost : You refused.
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So, European nations gathered $750M to buy US weapons for Ukraine, gave the US the money, and now Trump refuses to give them the weapons.
MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀@Maks_NAFO_FELLA
🤔🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 WSJ: Separately, the Pentagon notified Congress on Monday that it intended to divert about $750 million in funding provided by NATO countries through the PURL program to restock the U.S. military’s own inventories, rather than to send additional assistance to Ukraine. The first official said it was unclear whether European countries providing their funds for the initiative to bolster Ukraine understood how the money was being spent.
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@atrupar "The island that the UK was very afraid to give us".
Skip the obvious - Trump is as ignorant as they come, and proud of it. The UK was not "giving" DG to the US.
Issue is, how can a person that doesn't even start to understand the problems choose the right solutions?
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Trump: "They shot the now-famous Ireland--- the island that the UK was very afraid to give us."
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@Dr_M_Davis Not just NATO. If Trump is not willing to comply with Art 5, what makes South Korea, Japan or Australia think that their own agreements are secure? ANY agreement with the US, for that matter.
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I suspect that we’re seeing the end of US involvement in NATO. Article 5 can no longer be assumed to be secure. #Putin will be emboldened to become more aggressive along #NATO’s eastern frontier and escalate #Russia’s hybrid warfare against the Alliance.
This is how the next war in Europe begins.
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
Trump, in an early-morning outburst, says: “The U.S.A. needs nothing from NATO”
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@menotyou1941 @Dr_M_Davis When did Turkey invoke Article 5?
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@Dr_M_Davis A NATO country has been attacked multiple times and yet the rest if the alliance does nothing. That is why NATO is dying.
So when Turkey was attacked and the rest of NATO did nothing, that is why NATO doesn't matter.
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@JayinKyiv Hostile to the US, but friendly to the Trump Organization.
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A week after Trump took sanctions off Belarus, Lukashenko high tails it to North Korea.
Belarus will now act as conduit for all banking for every regime hostile to the US.
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@Teoyaomiquu 💯
Taurus was a "game changer" in 2023-24 bc Ukraine didn't have medium-range attack capabilities. Now they're developing their own, and at better cost.
A partnership benefits both sides.
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If you ask us which one we pick:
1) financing our homegrown strike drone capabilities without stirring things up inside German political landscape
2) giving us the Taurus stockpile equivalent in cost
We would chose 1. We understand political decisions cost politicians their seats and new politicians are hostile to Ukraine. The funds for drones are also effective and Taurus isn't a game changer in any sense, on top of a very high price the stockpiles are very limited.
Colby Badhwar@ColbyBadhwar
Taurus remains a useful capability that could be added to Ukraine's arsenal. Merz should honor his word.
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