Richard Haseloh

Retired 99 NSP

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@miles_commodore Might as well

[Carson Bowen @CarsBow910]

Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

No British government ever imagined an American president might finally tell the truth about the “special relationship.”

Until now.

Spare me the pearl-clutching obituary from The Economist, that decaying salon of transatlantic nostalgia where the ghost of Churchill is still being pimped out like a rent-boy for Davos subscriptions.

Your precious bunting of flags in the bin isn’t some tragic metaphor for Trump’s “betrayal.”

It’s the autopsy photo of a one-way parasitic bargain that America has carried on its back like a drunk uncle for eighty goddamn years.

And the drunk finally woke up, looked around, and said: Fuck this.

This isn’t “turning his back.”

This is a sovereign nation refusing to keep subsidizing a continent of strategic eunuchs who have spent decades castrating their own militaries, hollowing out their industrial bases, and importing the very pathologies that make them security liabilities rather than allies.

You want the special relationship?

Earn it. Reciprocate it. Stop treating the United States like an ATM with nuclear weapons.

Geopolitically and militarily, the numbers don’t lie and they never have.

The United States still shoulders roughly sixty percent of total NATO defense spending...$845 billion out of a collective $1.4 trillion last year.

Most of your European “partners” couldn’t hit the 2% GDP target even after Russia parked tanks on Ukraine’s border and started lobbing missiles at civilian infrastructure.

Britain under Starmer talks a big game about “global Britain” while quietly slashing capability, courting CCP-linked cash, and letting its own streets burn under the weight of demographic transformation and speech codes that make the old East German Stasi look libertarian.

You lecture us about values while your own government criminalizes tweets and turns Rotherham into a cautionary tale the media still refuses to fully autopsy.

Historically, the ledger is even more damning. We bled for you in 1917 and 1941 when your empires were on the ropes.

We bankrolled your reconstruction, anchored your defense for the entire Cold War, and let you punch above your weight on the world stage because sentimental Anglosphere nostalgia still meant something.

In return? Suez 1956, where you expected us to back imperial nostalgia while we were trying to contain Soviet expansion.

Vietnam, where you sat it out. Iraq, where you half-assed it and then spent the next twenty years sneering at us in your broadsheets. And every single time an American president dared put America First, your commentariat wailed like Victorian widows about the death of the alliance...as if the alliance was ever meant to be a suicide pact.

You’ve internalized a victimhood narrative so profound it borders on the clinical...projecting your own national decline, your own loss of agency, your own self-inflicted castration onto the one country that still possesses the will to act like a great power.

Trump doesn’t “deprioritize” the relationship; he simply refuses to indulge the delusion any longer.

He sees what you refuse to admit:

the United Kingdom of 2026 is no longer the reliable offshore balancer of 1945.

It’s a mid-tier European power wrestling with internal entropy, elite disconnect, and a demographic trajectory that makes long-term strategic partnership… let’s just say, complicated.

We are sick of it. Sick of the free ride. Sick of the lectures from people whose capitals are turning into no-go zones while their defense ministers beg Washington for more F-35s and more carrier groups to patrol waters they can no longer secure themselves.

Sick of the pomp, the pageantry, the royal visits, and the hand-wringing editorials that treat American self-interest as some kind of moral failing.

The special relationship isn’t dead. It’s being stress-tested by reality.

And reality, Mr. Economist, is a vicious bitch with a ledger in one hand and a mirror in the other.

Look into it.

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[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@ColonelWaughNSP @NEStatePatrol Very cool picture!

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@FeitCanWrite Very good stuff here Dave!

[College Insider Inc. @collegeinsider]

Navy head coach Jon Perry calls a team meeting to inform Austin Benigni that he has won the 2026 Lou Henson award. But Coach Perry is surprised to learn that he has won the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year. @NavyAthletics @NavyBasketball @PatriotLeague #2026CIAwards

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[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@KentPavelka @FeitCanWrite Excellent!

[Tara Ross @TaraRoss]

#MedalOfHonor Monday! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 On this day in 1945, a prisoner of war is liberated. But Roderick “Roddie” Edmonds wasn’t the only man freed that day. Because of his heroic actions, hundreds of other prisoners were liberated alongside him.

/1 of X #storytime 🧵👇

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@NickBahe Spot on!

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

Glenn Reib nailed it 🎯

Dear Sane America,

What you’re watching is not organic outrage or spontaneous protest, it’s pressure. Deliberate pressure. The fires are being fanned on purpose by political operators, amplified by social media, and sold to the public as compassion. None of it is meant to help Americans. It’s meant to provoke.

This is no longer left vs. right. That framing is dead. What we’re dealing with now is a faction that would rather burn the country down than accept the fact that voters rejected them. They don’t want to govern. They want chaos, because chaos creates leverage.
They want to provoke Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act. Not to protect anyone. Not to restore order. But because escalation is the product. They want confrontation. They want images. They want blood in the streets so they can scream tyranny while standing on the damage they helped cause.

That’s the plan. They don’t have policies because policies require accountability. They don’t have solutions because solutions require competence. What they have is disruption, and an army of "useful idiots" willing to play their role. The foot soldiers don’t understand this. They think screaming in the street is activism. They confuse lawlessness with compassion and chaos with courage. They don’t see that they’re being used as bait, deployed to provoke a response they can then weaponize. So they attack law enforcement. ICE agents enforcing federal law are smeared as villains, called Nazis and Gestapo by little shits who don’t understand history, power, or reality. Courts are ignored. Orders are defied. Federal authority is mocked. And every time disorder follows, they clap like trained seals and call it justice. None of this is accidental. This is bait. They want Trump to act so they can claim victimhood. They want him to move so they can cry dictatorship. They want people hurt so they can point, film, and fundraise. Tragedy isn’t a fear to them, it’s a tool. Bodies become props. Suffering becomes narrative fuel.

And what's making them angrier? Trump sees it. He understands the trap. He knows discipline beats emotion, patience beats mobs, and restraint denies them the spectacle they’re desperate for. Make no mistake about it: this apparatus is willing to see Americans hurt if it advances the narrative. They dress it up as compassion, but it’s sabotage. They talk about justice while excusing crime. They preach empathy while attacking families, mocking work, erasing standards, and treating national identity like a disease. And when sane Americans finally say “enough,” they act shocked...as if consequences fell from the sky. This isn’t disagreement. This is contempt for the country itself.

Sane Americans don’t want revenge. We want order. We want laws that mean something. We want a nation that doesn’t apologize for existing. We are done being manipulated into chaos. Done pretending division is progress. Done letting people who hate this country define morality while pushing it toward the brink. This isn’t about being polite anymore. It’s about being awake. And sane America is awake, clear-eyed, fed up, and no longer willing to hand the wheel to people whose entire strategy is to provoke a national confrontation and blame everyone else for the wreckage.

[Clemson Superfan (Jordan Spieth Defender) @SuperfanClemson]

Bowl Games - Dying

Conference Championships - Dying

College football Playoff - Disaster

Transfer Portal - Disaster

NIL - Out of Control

Heisman Trophy - Irrelevant

ESPN - Making Millions

Things are great!

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

No

[Paul Mauro @PaulDMauro]

She was just indicted by a grand jury comprised of her fellow citizens in one of the bluest jurisdictions in America. Complain to them. And compared to the Alvin Bragg case on Trump, this indictment is legal poetry.

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@FeitCanWrite Lot of good stuff in here Dave!

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

This is hilarious 😂 😂😂

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@FeitCanWrite @HuskerFootball This is good!

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@FeitCanWrite Good stuff Dave!

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@HuskerTapes After watching b-ball all weekend, we have a long long way to go to be competitive

[Chris Basnett @Chris_Basnett79]

We wonder why high school basketball participation is declining, then you listen to parents at state get so red and mad at every single thing that they can't see straight.

[Richard Haseloh @RichardHaseloh]

@NEStatePatrol @scarcelyBecky God bless Trooper McAcy. This is a impressive photo