Mārtiņš Kronis

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[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Mark 🍁 @Markfry809]

Official word from The Whitehouse

“Trump is the sharpest, most accessible and energetic president in American history”

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen.

American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint.

The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed.

The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second.

So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse.

Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands.

MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed.

And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with.

Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[Mārtiņš Kronis @MKronis]

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[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This one is so much more accurate than the original.

[Joel The Dane 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Данський Козак #NAFO @JoelTheDane]

USA HAS NO BASES IN EUROPE‼️
They like to say 'their bases,' but it’s just a fantasy!

All bases are owned and sovereign to the host nation. USA uses these bases FOR FREE‼️

Our tax money is SUBSIDISING THE US ARMY‼️

BASES:
* Pituffik Space Base Greenland 🇬🇱
Owner: 🇩🇰
Rent payer: 🇩🇰
* Morón Air Base 🇪🇸
Owner: 🇪🇸
Rent payer: 🇪🇸
* Ramstein Air Base 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* NSF Redzikowo 🇵🇱
Owner: 🇵🇱
Rent payer: 🇵🇱
* Aviano Air Base 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* RAF Lakenheath 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
Rent payer: 🇬🇧
* Lajes Field (Azores) 🇵🇹
Owner: 🇵🇹
Rent payer: 🇵🇹
* Incirlik Air Base 🇹🇷
Owner: 🇹🇷
Rent payer: 🇹🇷
* Chièvres Air Base 🇧🇪
Owner: 🇧🇪
Rent payer: 🇧🇪
* Spangdahlem Air Base 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Ansbach 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Bavaria 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Stuttgart 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* US Army Garrison Wiesbaden 🇩🇪
Owner: 🇩🇪
Rent payer: 🇩🇪
* RAF Mildenhall 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
Rent payer: 🇬🇧
* RAF Fairford 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
Rent payer: 🇬🇧
* RAF Menwith Hill 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
Rent payer: 🇬🇧
* RAF Fylingdales 🇬🇧
Owner: 🇬🇧
Rent payer: 🇬🇧
* Naval Air Station Sigonella 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* Naval Support Activity Naples 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* US Army Garrison Italy (Vicenza) 🇮🇹
Owner: 🇮🇹
Rent payer: 🇮🇹
* NSA Souda Bay (Crete) 🇬🇷
Owner: 🇬🇷
Rent payer: 🇬🇷
* Naval Station Rota 🇪🇸
Owner: 🇪🇸
Rent payer: 🇪🇸
* Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base 🇷🇴
Owner: 🇷🇴
Rent payer: 🇷🇴
* NSF Deveselu 🇷🇴
Owner: 🇷🇴
Rent payer: 🇷🇴

The US only covers their own operational costs on the European bases.

Host nations subsidises 34% of the operational costs on average, through free utilities, logistics, maintenance, support staff, waived taxes and direct financial aid etc + free rent.

In Germany alone the USA has 119 facilities - ALL PAID BY GERMAN TAX MONEY ‼️

#NAFO

[Mārtiņš Kronis @MKronis]

@BowesChay Go fuck yoyrself! You are the shame for Irish people. Fucking putin's ass licker.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Still the greatest video of all time.

Iranian state media: “No bomb can reach us because Allah protects us…”

*Moments later*

[Mārtiņš Kronis @MKronis]

@EerikNKross @JanisIesalnieks @Wikipedia

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

EXACTLY HOW WE SEE TRUMP FROM A NORWEGIAN POINT OF VIEW 👍🤷

[Mārtiņš Kronis @MKronis]

@Human1982 @BensLatkovskis Kad ar to Latvijà ir nodarbojušies krievi? Vai arī tu jauc arPSRS?

[Mārtiņš Kronis @MKronis]

@NickZikoff @kasparsskincs @WeaponsVault Because you shot down innocent man? You are murder.

[Mārtiņš Kronis @MKronis]

@elonmusk Fuck you nazzi!

[Bill Bramhall @BillBramhall]

Cartoon

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Too many people saw it to try this.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Another lie from Elon Musk the biggest spreader of disinformation on Twitter.

[Mārtiņš Kronis @MKronis]

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