NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.
The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.
Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.
That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.
The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.
American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.
Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.
We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.
So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.
And it worked. The Wall came down.
But here’s what no one accounted for.
When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.
And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.
An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.
And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.
So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.
Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.
Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.
Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.
Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.
Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.
What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.
For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.
Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.
Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”
We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.
Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.
You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.
What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.
It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.
That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.
Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”
Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.
🤯😱😳Dr. John Demartini, who writes for Oprah & starred in “The Secret” just said the children who have been r@ped—- attracted it into their lives— and then ends by saying there’s upsides to the murder of kids too.
Ps. Yes.He’s in the Epstein files.
https://t.co/VGRZsrHZqE
The Gregory Family does NOT CONSENT to the @TVAnews running transmission lines across their 239 year old, Revolutionary War Era farm. Thank you @jeremymansfield for ringing the bell! I call on @SecRollins and @USDA to look into this ASAP.
Pls watch/share this powerful message👇
@DieselOnRadio Why wouldn't they put the teams in regional venues...Texas Tech and Oregon in Ca or Az? Alabama and Indiana in Atlanta? More fans would attend, no?
🚨 NEIL OLIVER JUST SAID WHAT MILLIONS STILL WON’T 🚨
When history is written, Neil Oliver will be remembered as one of the few who refused to bow to the lie.
Tonight he laid out, calmly and bravely, what those in power still cannot admit:
86% of PCR test results were wrong.
Not slightly off—wrong.
Those faulty tests were not harmless errors.
They dictated life and death decisions:
• Whether you could visit dying loved ones
• Whether a person could travel
• Whether a business survived
• Whether a parent kept their job
• Whether you could move freely in your own country
Billions were made—families were destroyed.
And the very people who engineered this catastrophe remain exactly where they were:
Still promoted
Still honoured
Still rewarded
While those who questioned it—like Neil Oliver, Bev Turner, Jimmy Dore, and a handful of others—were mocked, demonised, censored, ridiculed, and punished.
Neil said it perfectly:
For years, telling the truth was treated as the crime.
Now we discover the real crime was committed by those who locked down the world on a lie.
Millions knew.
Millions warned.
Millions suffered.
And not one official apology.
Not one accountability hearing with consequences.
Not one resignation.
Neil Oliver has done what journalism was supposed to do:
He told the truth when it mattered.
He stood when most kneeled.
He refused to pretend.
And for that, he deserves respect.
We owe him gratitude.
We owe those harmed justice.
We owe future generations honesty.
Neil Oliver is not just asking when people will accept the truth…
He is forcing the world to confront it.
And that is leadership.
— Jim Ferguson @thecoastguy
If you can't get through to them with truth, try logic with a different perspective they probably haven't even considered.
@NickJFreitas is a MASTER at this.
🚨#BREAKING: DHS has released a list of criminal illegal aliens arrested in Charlotte NC during "Operation Charlotte's Web"...
Let's meet who Democrats want to keep in the country!
First up:
Jordan Castillo-Chavez, a criminal illegal alien from Costa Rica.
He was arrested for indecent liberties with child, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor, attempted statutory sexual offense with a child less than 15 years old, and solicitation of a child by a computer.
He was RELEASED after authorities failed to honor the ICE detainer!
When you see these “Christians” in their costumes going near ICE facilities to “help”their fellow humans, ask yourself how many times you saw them in Western North Carolina while people were suffering last winter? How many times have you seen this in the southern coal fields of West Virginia? I sure haven’t seen it.
You know who did show up, the Amish! They also didn’t bring cameras, or a gaggle fuck of retards cheering them on. They do it because it is the CHRISTIAN thing to do, despite being shunned and outcast from society. While these other clowns survive off the backs of others, get handed everything, and put on a pedestal, despite accomplishing nothing in life. Yet they still complain and demand more of you.
Timber!
Yesterday, in a little town called Burnsville, behind the most impressive high school vocational shop I’ve ever seen, I watched a man with a chainsaw attempt to drop a 200-foot oak tree into a very specific spot.
He did not want the tree to fall toward him, obviously. Nor did he want it to fall back into the woods, or into the clearing to his left. Most especially, I assume, he did not want the tree to fall on his friend operating the Caterpillar machine with the grabby claw thing at the end of a long metal arm. He wanted the tree to fall exactly where it did - along the edge of the embankment, where he could go about the business of cutting it up into more manageable pieces, so that his friend in the Cat with the grabby claw thing at the end of a long metal arm could safely remove the remaining chunks.
And so, he did.
Seeing little tasks done well is always satisfying, even from a distance. So too, is seeing neighbors come together to rebuild their community when all hope seems lost, with skill and grit and unrelenting determination. That’s exactly what's been happening in this little town since last September, when Helene blew through North Carolina and took much of Burnsville with her.
Later, I’ll introduce you to an industrial arts teacher who taught his students how to build new houses for people still living in tents. I think you’ll like him, a lot. And I think you'll be amazed by what his students have accomplished.
In the meantime, it’s nice to see a tree fall exactly where it’s supposed to.
@tkpipedreams I had a great line of sight from the east side. The headlines woman was pitiful with the call. Could plainly see he never made it in and she half heartedly raised her hands. Had multiple missed and bad calls!
The headlines "woman" at our game today was absolutely abysmal. She missed a PI right in front of her, called a touchdown which clearly wasn't and it got overturned,then gave Oregon State a first which also overturned. Just terrible decisions #appstatefootball
HOLY SHIT. Show on @Netflix “The Baby-Sitters Club" pushes TRANSGENDERISM on KIDS, shames characters for "misgendering" and demands hospital staff refer to and treat a boy as a girl.
INSANITY
This show is rated for CHILDREN
CANCEL NETFLIX
The truth came out
DC Lobbyist Desirée Townsend spoke with Congress Reps. The REAL REASON Democrats are fighting for illegal’s healthcare is because states like California have so many illegals their entire healthcare system runs on the taxpayer money for illegals
“Let's take California, for example.
California has a high demographic of individuals that are not here legally, and prior to the expansion of healthcare for them, the hospitals were inundated with people they could not handle. And so, when that expansion happened and immigrants who are here, undocumented immigrants that are here were able to get insurance, all of a sudden, you then had this new kind of revenue stream that came in not only to the hospitals but now to all these doctors and providers in California.
— California will be a catastrophe because you'll have all of these individuals now that are not documented with no health insurance. So, all of the providers that were making money off of this kind of, like, new economics in California are- are now not gonna be making any money.
And instead, these individuals that are undocumented are gonna have to go to the hospital for treatment, and that's going to, instead of make the hospital money because they're covered by Medicaid, it's going to create a situation where now the hospitals are losing millions of dollars.
So, that is what I believe the sticking point is with Medicaid with Democrats. It has to do with a situation in states like California where you have millions and millions of undocumented individuals, um, and if they lose insurance, not only will the providers now not make money and the hospitals are not making money”