Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺

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[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

City of Newcastle Upon Tyne 😍

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

Hey @AlistairCarns it's time to step up. #AlCarns4PM

[Sam @SamCKx]

Some guy whose mates down the pub call Barry the Bellend or Terry the Tosser is going to wake up on Monday morning and realise he's responsible for overseeing a £26 million regeneration project, and chairing a meeting of the local council licensing committee...

[Sly U @SlyForTheRight]

🚨 YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP 🚨

A prankster approaches Laila Cunningham pretending to hand over an envelope of cash from “Dimitri in Moscow”… and her reaction says it all.

First question: “How much is it?”
Then the body language — leaning in, ears open, hands gesturing toward the envelope, even peeking inside.

Only saved by last-minute intervention from her Reform UK handlers telling her not to take it.

Have these people learnt nothing from the cautionary tale of Nathan Gill? 🍿

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

If your dislike of Keir Starmer leads you to support attempts by a foreign government to decouple Britain from the Falklands - over which we have had sovereignty for over 200 years, and for which 255 of our servicemen gave their lives 44 years ago - you really are no patriot.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Let me be precise about what is happening here.

Trump keeps saying “NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.” He says it like a grievance. He will keep saying it. Expect it at every rally between now and 2028.

Understand what he is actually doing. He is not venting. He is building a case.

Because he knows what Russia is planning for the Baltic states, and he is pre-loading the public argument for why Article 5 does not apply when that moment arrives.

“We asked, they refused.” That is the exit ramp. Simple. Memorable. Wrong, but effective.

Article 5 covers armed attacks against members in Europe or North America. It was never designed to cover offensive wars the United States chooses to launch in the Middle East.

Article 6 makes this explicit. The Americans insisted on that language in 1949 precisely so they could not be dragged into Europe’s colonial wars.

Trump is now furious at a clause his predecessors wrote. 

He called allies cowards. He told the United Kingdom to “build up some delayed courage.” He threatened France after Paris refused airspace for weapons bound for Israel.  None of this is anger. It is choreography.

NATO allies had no legal or treaty obligation to join this war. The United States was not the victim of an attack. It was the instigator.  What Trump is calling betrayal is allies reading the actual document.

Now to the harder question: can NATO hold without Washington?

Yes.

European members have every incentive to maintain the alliance, even in radically different form. Germany’s chief of defence has already ordered the military to be fully equipped by 2029, when Russian forces may have reconstituted sufficiently to test the eastern flank. That clock is running regardless of what happens in Washington.

European leaders have been forced to confront the need for a security architecture that can stand without the American pillar. That conversation was theoretical eighteen months ago. Iran made it operational.

The alliance survived the Suez crisis, when the United States humiliated Britain and France. It will survive this.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

Let's see reform tie themselves in knots trying to defend this...

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

US considering to reevaluate its stance on the Falkland Islands as a punishment for UK not helping in the war against Iran-Reuters

What?

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

@RocCityBuilt @campbellclaret The US has created over 80 years total economic reliance based in part on military strength. To then NOT help, despite your 80 bases and the devastating impact it'll have on US defence as Europe moves to self reliance... absolutely mental. But good for Europe. A timely divorce.

[Colt Sebastian Taylor @ColtSTaylor]

@Acyn The Red Cross... is famously known for its robes and magic.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

MAGA: “Europeans are freeloaders! We pay for NATO. We pay for everything! We’re leaving.”

Europeans: “Okay. Cheerio.”

MAGA: “We’re packing up! No more handouts. You’ll be screwed without us.”

Europeans: “I’m sure we’ll manage. Bye then.”

MAGA: “Better start learning Russian. You won’t last 15 minutes without us. You’re a bunch of pussies!!!”

Europeans: “Still here?”

MAGA: “We’ve got 300 aircraft carriers and 10 gazillion rockets and space lasers! You europoors still have cannons!”

Europeans: yawn in French, go for three-hour lunch.

MAGA: “USA! USA! USA! You’ll beg us to come back!!!”

Europeans: order a second bottle of Chablis.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

MAGA thinks Europe can't defend itself without America. Here's what they don't know.

1. France and Britain have 515 nuclear warheads and 8 nuclear missile submarines.

2. European defence spending hit €481 billion this year. That's more than Russia and China spend combined. The EU's ReArm Europe plan is mobilising another €800 billion.

3. European countries have over 1.7 million active troops. Russia has 1.3 million.

4. EU and UK air forces fly over 1,400 combat aircraft. Their navies have five aircraft carriers, over 60 submarines, more than 120 frigates and destroyers.

5. Europe has over 6,000 artillery pieces and that's before the biggest rearmament wave since the Cold War. Poland alone is adding 212 new howitzers.

6. The British SAS invented modern special forces. The US copied them to build Delta Force. From France's Foreign Legion to Poland's GROM, Europe's elite units are among the deadliest on earth.

7. Europe already has joint military commands ready to fight. The UK leads a 10-nation rapid reaction force across Northern Europe and the Arctic. Finland alone can mobilise 900,000 trained reservists all prepared to fight in arctic conditions.

8. Europe has its own satellite navigation (Galileo), its own defence programme (75 active projects) and is building its own rapid deployment force.

The "helpless Europe" story was never about defence.
It was about keeping Europe dependent and buying American weapons, relying on American intelligence, following American foreign policy.

Thanks to Trump, that now ends.

[Fast Jet Performance 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ✈️ @timdavies_uk]

No lies detected 👍😅

[Grok @grok]

$0. There was no toll or fee 6 weeks ago (late February 2026). Ships passed freely through the Strait of Hormuz for decades under international norms. Iran only began imposing ad-hoc "safe passage" fees—up to $2 million per vessel—starting mid-March 2026, according to multiple reports from Bloomberg, Financial Times, and Iranian officials.

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

@JeffFisch If there's any shift in control of the straits it's going to be hugely embarrassing for the US long term. I can see US nato membership as a price for Europe agreeing to swallow it.

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

@gregbagwell The removal of generals, introduction of religious war rhetoric, and now this. slightly worrying stuff. I wouldn't rule out a tactical nuclear weapon at this point. But I still can't see the Iranians relenting. Would we?

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE. Seek his removal immediately.

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

@nicholadrummond But we owe it to ourselves to try. Even if it takes time. Another trump will come along eventually. we need to insulate ourselves from that culture

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

fucking hell America. how can you not see this is deranged?

[Julia 🇺🇸 @Jules31415]

President Trump's conversation with the kids at the White House Easter Egg Roll is peak comedy 😂

Trump: "I could sign autographs for you guys. And then tonight, you could sell it for $25,000 on eBay!"

Kids: "Could you sign mine?!"

Trump: "[Granddaughter] Carolina's the only one that doesn't want my autograph...I would say Carolina has ZERO interest in my autograph." *signs a kid's drawing* "I think I'm going to sign this, that way I'll say I drew it. Look, I drew it! Look at what I did, everybody!"

Kids: "Oh yeah!" *one kid asks about Biden*

Trump: "Biden?!...He'd have an autopen following him, Joe Biden. He didn't sign anything. He was incapable of signing...So they'd follow him around with a BIG machine. Do you know what it was called? An AUTOPEN! And it'd have the autopen sign for him...Not too good, right?"

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

@BethAnne77 @A64291666A @DI313_ Europe wants rid of them anyway. take them home. we'll have all our bases back (including Diego Garcia) thanks. Your country is a reality-TV clown show and at this point i'd rather be buddies with the North Koreans.

[Andy 🇬🇧 🇩🇰🇪🇺 @andywatson83]

Press conference about the rescue has turned into a Trump-fest. Casual thanks for the people actually responsible and several paragraphs about how amazing trump is. Im so embarrassed for Americans. We're all laughing at you. or trying to whilst cringing ourselves inside out.