BREAKING: A letter from Alex Pretti’s Final Nursing Student:
“I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal.
Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera.
It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well.
Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.
I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need.
Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity.
Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.”
BREAKING: The Finnish president enrages MAGA world by declaring that Europe can "defend itself" without the help of the United States — destroying Donald Trump's leverage.
And then he explained EXACTLY how they can do it...
"First is a direct answer to the question of this panel, can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally yes," said President Alexander Stubb at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"Without the Americans?" pressed the moderator.
"Without the Americans, I mean—" began Stubb.
"How?" interjected the moderator. "But you rely on them for these key elements, how would you do it at scale and at duration and at intensity?"
"With an assumption that the United States would cut off completely?" asked Stubb. "Well, if we look at the defense composure of Europe by and large in a country like Finland, so how do we do it? We have conscription. One million have done it. We can mobilize 280,000 soldiers within weeks."
"We have sixty-two F-18s," he continued. "Your next question is going to be do they fly without Americans? No they don't. But do we trust that they will continue to fly because it's in the interest of America to do so? Yes. We just bought sixty-four F-35s. We have the biggest artillery in Europe together with Poland. We have long-range missiles, land, sea, and air."
"We don't have these because we're worried about Stockholm," he joked. "So the bottom line is, if you ask me the question that can the Finnish military defend itself against a Russian attack, the whole defense posture of how you do it? Yes we can!"
Trump has been taking for granted that all of Europe will tremble and bend over backwards to please him amidst his deranged demand that Greenland be handed over to the United States. He whines constantly that America pays for Europe's defense through NATO and has been trying to use our support of our allies as leverage. That harebrained strategy has backfired.
What we're clearly seeing now is that Europe isn't afraid to push back. They see that the United States has become a deeply unstable partner led by a demented pedophile, so they're strengthening themselves to break away from the American security umbrella. The result will be a weaker United States and less safe world. And we have only Donald Trump to thank for it.
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