WARNING: LONG THREAD 🧵 Dear Americans, Your political and media class has sold you a very convenient fairy tale for decades - the tale of how your tax dollars pay to defend freeloading Europe. While it's an emotionally satisfying narrative, it's also wrong. THE U.S. DOES NOT

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 8 days. Everyone thinks this is about oil. This is about what oil becomes. 92% of the world's sulfur comes from refining oil and gas. Close the Strait of Hormuz and you don't just lose 20 million barrels of crude per day. You lose the

case study on why we need allies: China - still getting oil and now it’s being settled in Chinese yuan at Iranian request, doesn’t care, wants to watch Trump flail and burn through US war resources France - says GFY Japan - we just pulled a MAGTF out of Japan for this and they

The German position is: ‘We totally agree with your objectives, but your strategy is non-existent, and your contingency planning is an unmitigated clusterfuck. Good luck, carry on, but we are not touching this dumpster fire with a ten-foot barge pole, so sort out your own mess.’

"We destroyed your supply chains without need and while insulting you all the while, but now you should clean it up for us." - American after having started another retarded Middle East war. How about you fuck off?

Lindsey Graham President Donald J. Trump trump told everyone to fuck off!!!! so they did

Everything is perfectly clear. Iran could not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, which they have been months away from developing for well over a decade. Also, Trump is the only president who could have kept us out of war with Iran, as he himself repeatedly told us. So we

The Chinese released imagery yesterday to the effect that the USS Abraham Lincoln had retreated well south of the Arabian Peninsula from its previous station some 350km from the Iranian coast, this after CENTCOM reported engaging an "Iranian vessel" that approached the carrier.⬇️

🇱🇻 The German Diehl Defence and Latvian Ripo Remonta Centrs have signed a memorandum of understanding that would allow for the creation of a maintenance centre for the IRIS-T SLM air defence system in Latvia. Latvia had awarded a contract to Diehl in late 2023 worth 600 million

This is probably the most important article of the month: an op-ed by Oman's Foreign Minister, who mediated the talks between the U.S. and Iran, in which he writes that the U.S. "has lost control of its foreign policy" to Israel. He repeats that a deal was possible as an outcome

Europe told Trump and Vance, clearly and seriously, that Russia’s war against Ukraine and its hybrid warfare campaign across the continent represents the greatest security threat Europe has faced since 1945. Europe said this as a NATO ally. As a partner of seven decades. As a

Donald Trump is now again having a mental breakdown over NATO not providing the help he claims he does not need, in an offensive war of his choosing that he claims to have already won, after spending the past year threatening to invade and annex several NATO members.

The faggots showed “routes of Ukrainian drones” to the Leningrad region — through the territory of Belarus and NATO countries (Picture #1). Now let’s look at reality, confirmed exclusively by their own official sources. Here’s how the air raid alerts developed in Russia on these

Thank you DroneBomber - using air alerts issued by the Russian side, the approximate path of the drones on the 25th can be modeled. I've added these to the airdefence simulation platform. Find the scenario here - airdefense.dev/ustluga

Lūdzu nepaļauties uz krievu propagandu , ka ukraiņi dronus triecienus raidījuši caur Latvijas un pārējo Baltijas valstu gaisa telpu. Šādu trajektoriju nedrīkst izmantot bez valstu piekrišanu.

The most absurd part is this: when Europeans refuse to get involved in a war with Iran, Trump throws tantrums, hurling insults and threats. When Europeans agree to cooperate with him, Trump still throws tantrums, hurling insults and threats, and declares he doesn’t need anyone.

Plenty noting that Art. V applies if attacked - yes. But also, wait until US proponents of this view discover which NATO founder member insisted on bounding the treaty’s geographic scope to the North Atlantic region, because they feared being dragged into others’ imperial wars…

What if I told you that for decades, this was largely a U.S. policy -- that Europe largerly disarmed, weakened its defense industries, and handed its security over to the United States, making itself dependent? What if I told you that for decades, this arrangement suited both

Let me get this straight: You are locked in a war on the other side of the globe, completely dependent on European infrastructure literaly begging for us to join and you feel like flexing against a continent of several former empires with unmatched history of warfare is good,

The level of cognitive dissonance among some Americans is staggering. They have no trouble understanding that when China extends loans to African countries in exchange for opening their markets, it is a strategy of domination and subjugation. Yet they are sincerely convinced that