HOLY SH*T: JD Vance just essentially confirmed that Iran will get $300 billion from the U.S. for war damages and reconstruction. This is the worst deal in American history.

This may well be the last time Europe extends an invitation to clowns to mark D-Day. Not a single person in the Trump administration comes close to having the character those landings demanded. The Americans who stormed those beaches on June 6, 1944 were fighting against exactly the kind of people Hegseth represents

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🚨WATCH:🇺🇸 Former President Obama on Iran: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. No shut down the Strait of Hormuz.” "They were able to maintain a modest civilian program for energy. And it was working."

The USA continues its campaign to take over Greenland. Today they opened a large new consulate in the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk. The Greenlandic politicians stayed away, and a large crowd gathered outside to protest. Nobody likes a country that wants to annex you.

This Is Europe's Century. The Rest of the World Just Figured It Out. In 2025, more Americans left the US than arrived. For the first time since 1935. Canada pivoted to Europe. India signed the largest trade deal in history with Brussels. Ten countries are lining up to join the EU. Europe is winning on every human measure that actually matters. And the world has started moving accordingly. This is why this will be Europe's century. open.substack.com/pub/gandal…

There it is at last, the admission that it was Ukraine’s wish to join the EU that led Putin to invade - nothing to do with NATO. Always blindingly obvious but denied for years by anti-European Putin apologists in Europe including Farage and Johnson in Britain

🇩🇰 Denmark just completed its first full calendar month (March 2026) running entirely on renewable electricity. 31 consecutive days where domestic wind and solar generation covered 100 percent of national electricity demand with zero fossil fuel input at any hour of any day. Offshore wind provided 78 percent of generation, onshore wind contributed 14 percent, and solar covered 8 percent.

The Most Expensive Mistake Since Someone Invaded Russia in Winter For years, Trump told Europe it was freeloading. Not paying its share. Weak, comfortable, ungrateful. He said it so often it became received wisdom, carved into the MAGA catechism as though Moses himself had brought it down from the mountain. The numbers do not cooperate. European NATO members spent $454 billion on defence in 2024. Russia, the actual threat, spent $149 billion. Europe outspends the aggressor three to one. But that $454 billion is the floor, not the ceiling. Trump uses the narrowest possible accounting definition and presents it as the complete picture. European support to Ukraine’s armed forces alone exceeds €63 billion. None of that appears in the number he waves around at rallies. Meanwhile, America pays roughly 16 percent of NATO’s common budget. Germany pays a similar share. The rest of the American defence budget funds 750 bases across 80 countries and the considerable overhead of running a global empire nobody formally asked Washington to build. At The Hague in 2025, Trump got his great concession. Europeans committed to 5 percent of GDP on defence by 2035. He called it a historic achievement. He was right, in the same way that a man who kicks over a hornets nest is right to call it a significant event. Because 80 percent of European defence spending already flows to domestic suppliers. The EU now formally targets 60 percent of all procurement from European manufacturers by 2035. Germany directs 92 percent of new defence purchases to European suppliers. American systems receive 8 percent. Berlin was once one of Washington’s most reliable arms customers. It has quietly stopped being one, and European capitals are not embarrassed about why. European weapons arrive without usage restrictions, without congressional conditions, without the risk that a change in Washington renders your equipment politically unusable. Ukraine taught Europe that lesson at considerable cost. The American defence research machine runs partly on allied procurement. When Europeans buy American hardware, they co-fund the next generation of American military technology. When they stop, that bill lands on the American taxpayer. Trump demanded Europe pay more. Europe is paying more, to itself, building the industrial base that makes American partnership optional rather than necessary. He wanted customers. He created competitors. The arithmetic was never complicated. It just required someone to actually do it. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

List of reasons why leaving NATO would not only be dumb, but would actually not be "America First" 1. NATO gives the United States a massive force multiplier by integrating allied militaries under shared communications, standards, equipment, and doctrine. 2. Weakening NATO would make war more likely by reducing deterrence against Russia, increasing the chance of aggression in Europe, and forcing the United States to divert attention and resources away from China. 3. Pulling back from NATO would cost the United States more in both war risk and economics because deterrence is cheaper than conflict and a destabilized Europe would threaten roughly $1.2 trillion in trade and major defense sales for the US. 4. NATO helps keep Russia strategically tied down in Europe instead of giving it more room to expand influence into places like Cuba, South America, or the Middle East. 5. America’s forward basing network in Europe is one of its greatest strategic assets, and losing access to those bases would cripple power projection, complicate Middle East operations, and cost lives. 6. If the United States guts NATO, allies around the world will start doubting every other American security guarantee, which would weaken U.S. influence everywhere. 7. A weakened or abandoned NATO would likely drive nuclear proliferation by convincing countries in Europe and Asia that they need their own nuclear weapons for survival. 8. Without NATO, the United States and its allies would lose the common standards and interoperability that let them share equipment, ammunition, and systems in a crisis. 9. Leaving NATO would also create a domestic political crisis because the alliance supports American jobs, trade, security, and remains broadly seen by Americans as beneficial.

Just to add some nuance to the propaganda here. If you look at the median rather than the mean, which is what actually reflects how most people live, the picture changes quite a bit. Once you also account for unavoidable out of pocket costs like healthcare and education, life in the US looks much more average, and often falls behind Northern European countries for the typical person. The US model clearly creates immense wealth at the very top, but for the vast majority of people, median living standards are what really matter. And by that measure, the story is far less impressive than it is often made out to be.

We are not “a piece of ice”. We are people! reuters.com/world/europe/gre…

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 🇬🇱
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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

Read NATO § 6. It says loud and clear, that any invoking of §5 only can take place if its on european or northamerican soil. So supporting USA here would be AGAINST NATO rules ! § 6 was specifically asked for by USA in 1949 !!!

Here is President Obama's Iran deal vs. Trump's Iran ceasefire. Under President Obama: •The Strait of Hormuz was open because it was never closed. •Limitations were placed on Iran's uranium enrichment. •Iran agreed not to to make nuclear weapons. •International inspectors were permitted into Iran to confirm full compliance. Under Trump's ceasefire: •The Strait of Hormuz will open but under direct Iranian control, possibly with a $2 million fee extracted from each vessel passing through. That toll would be split between Iran and Oman. The Strait was only closed because Trump started his war. •Iran does not have to guarantee a limit on uranium enrichment. •Iran does not guarantee that it will never develop nuclear weapons and there will be no international inspectors. And those are just the top line items for Trump's ceasefire. He also stated that Iran's "10 point proposal" is a "workable basis on which to negotiate." If Trump ratifies that proposal he will have to: •Lift all primary and secondary sanctions on Iran. •Withdraw the U.S. military entirely from the Middle East. •End all attacks on Iran and its allies. •Release frozen Iranian assets. Any way you analyze this ceasefire, it amounts to a massive victory for Iran. They weathered the illegal attacks, the threats of nuclear genocide, and emerged on the other side grinning. To point out the obvious here, Obama accomplished far more than Trump — all without a bloodshed. Obama didn't blow up a school full of little girls, commit mass war crimes against the Iranian people, or cause the deaths of American soldiers in a war of aggression. Only one of these men understands the art of the deal and he never wrote a book about it. Please like and share!

MAGA calls Europe freeloaders. Here’s what they’re not telling you. ​1. Ramstein Air Base, the most important US military hub outside America, is built on German land provided rent-free, with Germany contributing hundreds of millions to its upkeep. The US couldn’t replace it anywhere in the world. 2. Every US military operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia flows through Ramstein. Lose it and US power projection in the Eastern Hemisphere is crippled. 3. The UK provides and maintains RAF Lakenheath used almost entirely by the US Air Force. Italy provides Aviano. Greece provides Souda Bay. Turkey provides Incirlik. European land. European infrastructure. American operations. 4. The US Sixth Fleet depends entirely on European ports for fuel and supplies. Souda Bay, Naples, 11 Greek ports. Without them the Sixth Fleet cannot operate in the Mediterranean or project power into the Middle East. 5. The majority of NATO’s intelligence and surveillance capacity is hosted on European soil and fed directly to the CIA, NSA and Pentagon. 6. Early warning radar at Fylingdales, UK. Missile tracking in Greenland. Norwegian monitoring stations near Russia. All dependent on European goodwill. 7. It would cost America MORE to bring the troops home than keep them here. European hosts subsidise roughly a third of all basing costs. 8. Europe is America’s largest arms customer. Stop buying American and part of their defence industry goes bankrupt. 9. The bases aren’t charity. They’re America using European soil, European money and European goodwill to project power across the world. 10. We’re not the freeloaders.

I am thankful that we have a ceasefire.  It happened much faster than I expected and it was the right move.  But let’s be clear that this war ends (if the ceasefire holds) as a total strategic disaster. The scorecard  Nukes: Iran still has the HEU Proxies: no change or impact  Missile  and drones : Iran demonstrated its arsenal is sustainable and survivable under massive US and Israeli pressure.  Strait of Hormuz: Iran’s leverage to use it as a bargaining chip has dramatically increased. Regime: killed Khameini but his son is still in place and unless they collapse in the aftermath will probably be just as strong or stronger then when this started. US allies: totally screwed in the Gulf and horribly strained relations in Europe. Global economy: major damage.  Israel: will be even more globally isolated after this and no more secure.  Region: as unstable as ever requiring a greater US commitment. US capacity to be prepared for major contingencies in the IndoPacific set back for years. But at least we took out their navy and destroyed their useless Air Force 🤷‍♂️. An epic strategic disaster.

American superpower status was never about aircraft carriers or nuclear warheads. It was about relationships and geography. No nation is a superpower alone. The Soviet Union was a superpower because it controlled half of Europe, its resources, its armies, its airspace. The moment those countries walked out the door, Russia became what it always was underneath. Just Russia. Large, ugly, and alone. America built something different. Thirty-one of the world’s wealthiest democracies, voluntarily, collectively amplifying one nation’s reach into every corner of the planet. That is what made America a superpower. Not the bombs. The allies. Without them you have no forward bases, no friendly airspace, no intelligence network, no collective weight. Today a country with a 17-hour flight to the nearest problem. Which is, with the greatest respect, basically another Brazil. Europe was the rocket fuel that powered two superpowers. First pumped into the Soviet machine, then into the American one. And now, Europe is keeping that fuel for itself. Russia collapsed and the Sovjet Union collapsed. Russia lost its empire when the satellites left. America is being and idiot. Same result. Just with worse timing. Meanwhile Europe is becoming something it has not been in a very long time. The point. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

No U.S. President should be able to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval. Thankful my colleagues in Congress passed this bipartisan measure.

DENMARK'S ELECTION AND THE "FAR-RIGHT SURGE" THAT WASN'T Both social media and international outlets are framing Tuesday's Danish election as a victory for the far right. The numbers don't support that narrative. Yes, the 'far-right' Danish People's Party recovered from its historic low of 2.6% in 2022 to 9.1% in 2026. But that result is still below the party's own historical average of 11.2% since 1998. This is not a surge. It is a partial recovery from a catastrophic collapse - it''s simply call regression to the mean. The broader picture matters even more. Denmark is almost certainly heading for either a center-right or a center-left coalition government. What unites the likely governing parties across the aisle is more striking than what divides them: fiscal conservatism, Scandinavian social values, strong support for NATO, the EU and Ukraine, and a restrictive approach to immigration - with a pragmatic exception for labour migration. That is not a far-right agenda. That is the Danish consensus - and there is no indication whatsoever that Danish voters have soured on NATO or support for Ukraine. Quite the opposite. It is also worth noting that the Danish People's Party is a very different animal from parties like France's Rassemblement National or Germany's AfD. Lumping them together under the "far-right" label obscures more than it reveals. Denmark has no significant political force on - either the right or the left - with genuinely extremist positions, and no popular appetite for one. What has changed is that the Danish parliament has become more fragmented, with more parties winning seats. But more fragmentation is not the same as more polarisation. The ideological distance between the likely coalition partners remains narrow by any European standard. Reporting Denmark's election through the lens of a global populist wave says more about the international media's preferred narrative than about what actually happened at the ballot box on Tuesday.