100 % guarantee Trump will spout that the US “pays for Europe’s defence.” The numbers don’t back it.
Of $968bn US spend on military, only $33bn is spent in Europe, mostly on US bases which are not NATO bases.
The actual US funding of NATO is approx $600m a year, about the same as Germany.
Like 90% of what he babbles, it’s a lie.
Former president of Romania, Traian Basescu: "Donald Trump is reaping exactly what he has sown. He showed contempt for Europeans, he demeaned us, questioned the very existence of NATO and wanted to invade and annex Greenland, a territory that belongs to the European Union. The rejection shown today by European leaders is aimed not at the United States, but straight at Donald Trump.
He comes out of this conflict humiliated, the Hormuz strait is now blocked, he failed to achieve regime change, failed to secure the uranium and proved himself incapable of defending his own allies in the Middle East. All the US allies in the Gulf that saw themselves as protected by the US were struck by Iran almost at will, whenever Iran wanted, with the US being either unwilling or unable to defend them. So Mr. Trump comes out of this with a terrible record.
He started this war having absolutely no idea what he was doing, and even now, I don’t think this man is aware of or understands what he has done. Yes, Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons, but the way Trump thought he could solve that problem is one that only a child could come up with. This man still doesn’t understand what he has done and continues to be arrogant when asking us for help instead of admitting his mistake."
BOMBSHELL: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth accidentally tells the truth that the missiles used by Iran do not pose a threat to the United States. He says Iran's missiles "don't even range to the United States of America". So tell us, Pete, why did we start this war?🤔
Astonishing statement from General Carsten Breuer, chief of the German defence staff.
"Germany no longer regards the USA as a reliable defence partner. We are assuming conflict with Russia in the next few years is inevitable, we are re-arming.
General William Westmoreland, the American commander in Vietnam, said that Asians do not value human life the way Westerners do.
He said this to explain why Vietnamese soldiers kept fighting despite losses that would have broken Western armies.
He did not say: perhaps they are fighting for something worth dying for.
He did not say: perhaps our intelligence about their will to fight was wrong.
He did not say: perhaps we have fundamentally misunderstood this enemy.
He said: they don't value life.
This is what happens when an army built on the premise of its own civilizational superiority meets a people who simply refuse to accept that premise.
The army cannot update its model.
It cannot say "we were wrong about who these people are."
So it invents a theory where the enemy's resistance is not a sign of strength but a sign of deficiency.
They keep fighting because life is cheap to them.
Not because their cause is just.
Not because they are brave.
Because they are less than us.
Westmoreland ran the war for years on this theory.
He lost.
The Vietnamese people, who apparently did not value life, built a country that is alive and growing and free.
Westmoreland died in 2005.
The people he could not understand are still here.
So is the theory.
It has been 10 days since Hegseth and Caine last briefed on Iran. No CENTCOM briefing since 3/10, and no Pentagon daily press briefing at all. We learn more of what the U.S. military has been doing from bystander videos than DoD. Historic lack of transparency and accountability.
‼️ Good job by Finland 🇫🇮!
Europe have to follow up, we’ve actually paid for the weapons!
‼️And by the way.
Finnish 🇫🇮 shipyards gonna build icebreakers for the US 🇺🇸 Coast Guard!
Finland 🇫🇮 have to make sure that this contract will be delayed!!!
‼️Trump has ordered 40 new icebreakers to the so called "strengthen national security in the Arctic, and counter the growing influence of China and Russia".
And where do you think Trump gonna use them?! He suddenly needs 40 of them?! Greenland!!! 🇬🇱
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Absolute bombshell. A prominent Jewish Rabbi destroys the Western media narrative. He confirms that tens of thousands of Jews live completely free and protected in Iran right now. The Iranian government even funds Jewish hospitals while Washington pushes for war.
'I’m Collaborating With a Criminal Country,' Says Former PM’s Son. 'This original sin pursues and will pursue us and hang over us.'
Former member of the Shin Bet, Yaakov Sharett, 95, has become an anti-Zionist who encourages people to leave Israel.
Yaakov Sharett, the son of Israel’s first foreign minister and second prime minister, Moshe Sharett, feels no need to mince his words.
The son of the man who signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948 is ending his days as an anti-Zionist who opposes aliyah and encourages emigration from Israel, predicts dark days for the country. He even supports the Iranian nuclear program.
“The State of Israel and the Zionist enterprise were born in sin. That’s the way it is,” says the man, who served in the pre-state Palmach, volunteered for the Jewish Brigade in the British Army during World War II, cofounded a kibbutz in the Negev, and served in the Shin Bet security Service and Nativ, the government’s liaison bureau for immigration from Eastern Europe.
“This original sin pursues and will pursue us and hang over us. We justify it, and it has become an existential fear, which expresses itself in all sorts of ways. There is a storm beneath the surface of the water,” he says.
"For the first time in centuries" the Israeli authorities stopped the Roman Catholic cardinal from performing mass on Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
In hundreds of years of Muslim rule this never happened.
I really want to hear Christian zionists now.
@ChaiLife613 Converts are often the most fanatic believers!
They have actively chosen and feel they have to prove themselves!
The Bible is a book written by humans, and it's a matter of faith whether it's the words of God.
If you are not a Christian or a Jew, the Bible doesn't matter.
Did you know?
The government has allowed UK companies to send drone engines to Israel without export licences, documents obtained by Declassified suggest.
https://t.co/dbULCEEdsL
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 American reporter Jason Jones:
“Trump said Israeli settlements are illegal and must stop, but Israel just approved a new one set to destroy 11,000 Christian homes. It will end the Christian community in Bethlehem.”
What kind of retarded Christian supports this?
Absolute bombshell. A NYT reporter reveals that Pete Hegseth's Chief of Staff literally said Donald Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events. The blatant racism driving this administration's military purges is now fully exposed.
Right after the October 7th attack on Israel, I posted that Israel had helped create and fund Hamas. At the time, I was called names like Hitler, Nazi, and fascist. I was even blocked by some followers and removed from retweet rooms.
Now, several Israelis have released films featuring leaked police interviews and statements from Netanyahu that appear to show him requesting that Qatar send millions of dollars to Hamas. According to these materials, the Qataris asked Netanyahu to put the request in writing to protect themselves from future accusations of supporting terrorism.
Many Israelis and people in the West may soon realize how they were misled by the Israeli government. The innocent Israeli public — and the rest of us — were betrayed by Netanyahu and his strategies. It’s time for everyone to wake up.
Orlando Cicilia, who is married to Marco Rubio's older sister, Barbara, was part of a "Cocaine Cowboy" era drug ring in the 1980s. He was considered a "front man" and second-in-command for a ring that distributed millions of dollars worth of cocaine to the United States.