Vemund Haga

[Vemund Haga @vha66]

Sure, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

The problem is that your guy is in the debt of a few billions. No US president has destroyed more wealth and prosperity world wide and in the US itself.

No need to brag!

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[Vemund Haga @vha66]

This is really unfair. If you look at those men. How on earth would you expect them to be able to do percentage math? They are busy wrecking the American way of life and you don't need math to do that. In fact, it is easier without.

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[Vemund Haga @vha66]

@UriksFredrik Enig, de er idioter. Men dessverre i posisjoner hvor deres idioti får store konsekvenser.

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[Vemund Haga @vha66]

@SpeakerJohnson No, no, no. Republicans remain LASER FOCUSED on following Trump anywhere he goes without thinking about any consequences, whatever they may be.

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[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Justo hoy, Netanyahu lanza su ataque más duro contra el Líbano desde que empezó la ofensiva.

Su desprecio por la vida y el derecho internacional es intolerable.

Toca hablar claro:

- Líbano debe formar parte del alto al fuego.

- La comunidad internacional debe condenar esta nueva violación del derecho internacional.

- La Unión Europea debe suspender su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.

- Y no debe haber impunidad ante estos actos criminales.

[Vemund Haga @vha66]

I don't think Vance understand the irony and sadness of this himself. But it is worth reposting.

Seems to me USA is actively undermining Europe.

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[Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner]

Has a more subtly sarcastic headline ever been written?

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
😂

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Applebaum's piece is worth reading slowly because the specific details are doing work that the summary can't.

Danish military commanders - inside a NATO alliance the United States founded - had to sit in a room and war-game whether their forces would shoot down American planes and kill American soldiers. Some of them still haven't fully recovered from running that exercise. The most popular app in Denmark during Applebaum's visit was one that identifies American products so users know not to buy them.

NATO has invoked Article 5 exactly once in its history. On behalf of the United States. After September 11th. Allied troops went to Afghanistan and some of them died there. Trump told reporters those allies "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." The families of soldiers who didn't come back heard that.

Now Trump is in the middle of a war in the Persian Gulf with the Strait of Hormuz locked, oil prices spiking, and he's telling NATO allies - the same ones he insulted and tariffed and threatened - that he's "demanding" they come help solve a problem his own decisions helped create.

Applebaum's conclusion is precise: he doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. The rupture, as Mark Carney called it, isn't coming. It already happened.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

[Vemund Haga @vha66]

Nice book to read that explains a lot for us that missed the important stuff while it happened.

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[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

In my new book The Owned Continent, I trace the history of Europe's efforts to create independent defence and detail how Washington, with the dutiful assistance of London on the inside, blocked it.

It's incredible Article 42.7 was able to sneak in at all. https://t.co/dRIwX4Ma3S

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"All this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings. If the integrity of these meetings is to be maintained, it would be appropriate to ban Hungary from all of them. Every generation has a Kim Philby”
https://t.co/y3c5piiVIH

[Vemund Haga @vha66]

@WhiteHouse Threatening to execute obvious war crimes should be below a US president.

Maybe you shouldn't be the US president anymore?

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[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

https://t.co/4S64iXCX96

[Vemund Haga @vha66]

@foxandfriends @TreyYingst Lies, lies, and criminal lies.

MAGA is beyond hope. But it is strange that no ordinary Republicans understand the US cannot keep this man as president for almost three years. He is not mentally fit to be president.

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[Vemund Haga @vha66]

The author of this message has to be mentally ill and in dire need of help. This is just one of many, but it sinks to new levels. Blowing up the power grid and destroying the pure water plants for 90 million people is far beyond what a US president should be allowed to publish.

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[Vemund Haga @vha66]

Who need enemies with friends like @realannapaulina.

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[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

While Russian Duma members were getting guided tours of US government buildings and Trump was busy pressuring Ukraine to surrender, Russia helped Iran destroy an irreplaceable American $700,000,000 AWACS aircraft.

[Elika Sadeghi @elikasadeghi]

I dare a reporter to ask him to do this live

[Vemund Haga @vha66]

@WhiteHouse How?

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[Vemund Haga @vha66]

@JayinKyiv US citizens can say goodbye to $1 250 million.

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[Vemund Haga @vha66]

So he will wait ten days before committing war crimes? Did I say he? The Nuremberg trials made clear it is no defence to obey a ranking officer when the order is clearly illegal. Attacking civilian energy infrastructure is illegal.

Something to think about for every US soldier, except Hegseth. Who has already given orders to fight with "no stupid rules of engagement".

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