@OzymandiusUK@PM_ViktorOrban@realDonaldTrump Lol how can you post such blatant bullshit. The reflecting pond does not look like that anymore because of trumps actions to clean it up. The front lawn will be beautiful again it's just an event... How dense can you seriously be..
@FrankMaGooGoo@Mappy6984 They are just lucky it was a 76 year old. (Who probably could have whooped their ass) But one day they will mess with the wrong person and justice will get served lol
@Copelander73@RonDeSantis Most of the time I agree but the state farm in my area has an awesome adjuster that has been doing it for 13 years and understands what it takes to put a home back together. But 90% of the other state farm adjusters I dealt with suck.
@wetyeti01@MaryFolkerts@elonmusk Ive never been paid as low as the min wage. But i also pull 80 hour weeks and work my ass off. If you want something and you have the ambition the world is your oyster. People just want to "have their cake and eat it to" if you want to be successful be ready to earn it. Thats it.
@Sali28468M@RobSchneider Thats why when you find a great physician thats trying to do the right thing you need to tell your friends and family to switch and stop giving these hacks the time of day
@Sali28468M@RobSchneider 1/2 Everyone is being discarded by their physicians ๐ you name it female, male, any diagnosis that may take time to figure out fully gets shuffled under the rug for the quick fix. Kids get prescribed pills and told they have adhd because they are being children...
@Sali28468M@RobSchneider Diabetics are getting raked over the coals for insulin. Stomach issues? Probably gluten. Even if you are celiac any future stomach problem is just said to be due to your allergies no further testing. Next. Western medicine is a business model now. Thats it. More profits.
Letโs be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025.
But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it.
Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and โpredictability.โ Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions.
Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are.
Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale.
Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isnโt a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I donโt know what is.
Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a โlegitimate target.โ
If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the worldโs energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about?
Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy.
Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscowโs proxies. Turmp didnโt ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades.
They couldnโt even manage that.
So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates.
If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.