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@#4 ... But the next presidential election is a little over 2-years away. Most of what this administration does is going to be immediately reversed. ...

I've heard reports that our European allies are developing the view that the United States is no longer a reliable ally.

Regarding the next presidential election, they are of the opinion ~how can we rely on the United States when 50,000 votes in Wisconsin might cause a drastic change in the direction of the United State?~


Europeans No Longer Rely on US for Security: ECFR Poll 2026
informedclearly.com

... What the ECFR Poll Reveals About European Public Opinion

Conducted in May 2026 across EU member states including Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands, as well as Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the poll paints a stark picture of European sentiment. The report's authors, Ivan Krastev and Mark Leonard, argue that US President Donald Trump's second term -- marked by threats to NATO, plans to annex Greenland, and military strikes on Iran without European consultation -- has fundamentally shattered European confidence in American protection.

Michal van der Toorn, European affairs correspondent, explains the report's central metaphor: 'The comparison is crystal clear: the EU is Kevin and the US are the parents. Because home alone -- that's what we are as Europe.' The reference to the 1990 film 'Home Alone' underscores the sense of abandonment Europeans feel.

Key Findings at a Glance

- - - Trust collapse: Only 11% of Europeans see the US as an ally; 25% see it as a rival or adversary. ...

[italics theirs]


Everyone Who Hated Me Is Dead
Jesse Welles

1 hour ago

www.youtube.com

there were people out in Gaza
now there ain't quite as much
when some humans just ain't human
well you must treat them as such

what is stolen must be taken
when the promise is divine
to bad no one told the kids in Palestine

now I lie me down to sleep
and in peace I rest my head
now that everyone who hated me is dead

there were people up in Canaan
now there ain't quite as many
as it's written in the scrolls
as it's been since the beginning

when my god says you are going
well you'd better get gone
to bad god don't talk to kids in Lebanon

now I lie me down to sleep
and in peace I rest my head
now that everyone who hated me is dead

there are people up in Persia
and there must be many less
we'll destroy the civilization
it's with pride I do confess

there are many who will die
for our god given land
to bad no one told the girls out in Iran

well when wrath comes 'a knocking
for the evil that I've sown
I'll be dead and in my grave
and unable to atone

yes when vengeance comes to port
I won't be among the fell
too bad no one told the kids in Israel

now I lie me down to sleep
and in peace I rest my head
now that everyone who hated me is dead
now that everyone who hated me is dead

"Make no mistake about it, this will be a real review. It will be designed to ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly toward Europe leading, stepping up to take primary responsibility for the defense of Europe," Hegseth said. www.reuters.com

"NATO is moving fast and irreversibly toward Europe leading"

"Europe leading"

The United States no longer leading.
The end of eighty years of post-war Western hegemony, overseen by the United States.

We don't have Col. Jessep from A Few Good Men standing on that Wall any more.
We don't need him any more, according to Republicans.

It's Tennessee. Consider the source.

U.S. Current Trend: Bills Provide Immunity to Drivers Who Hit Protesters
Published: September 2021

www.icnl.org

In May 2021, local activist Justin Jones gave impassioned testimony before the Tennessee legislature. He described how "already you have cars at every protest revving their engines. . . . This bill is a license to hunt and a license to kill." The proposed bill, Tennessee's HB 513, would provide both civil and criminal immunity for drivers if they hit protesters with their vehicle while exercising "due care," even if the protester was only blocking the sidewalk.

indicated $1 million per day
1,400 people held

"In April 2026, records report that the cost of US$1.2 million per day for 1,400 people detained corresponds to US$850 per day and per bed." en.wikipedia.org

$850 per day is $310,250 per year.
We're paying $310,250 per year to keep these people in the United States, rather than deport them.
$310,250 per year is a Top 5% Income in the United States.

"Ratcliffe and Rubio said that based on that intel, they doubted the Iranians would agree to take the nuclear steps the US was seeking."

After gutting so many experienced analysts and linguists from the USIC since 21 Jan 2025, Ratcliffe and Rubio used the verb "doubt."

This sounds personal, not academic, and they discussed only US intel.

And to which "Iranians" did these two junta apparatchiks casually refer to?

Other countries have their sources and SIGINT penetrating Iran, including the UK, Germany, and Turkiye. The info they gather is generally shared amongst the allies and analysts construct a mosaic for their decision-makers.

"Oh, the Turks have a source in the Iranian border agency. Russia has been delivering items in lead-encased trucks to Iran through Azerbaijan."

"Boss, German intelligence reports the Iranians stopped buying centrifuges from that company in Hamburg."

"Ma'am, the UK intercepted a phone call made by Iran's deputy energy minister and...."

"IMINT reflects the Bushehr nuclear plant is operating without damage, Sir."

But intelligence can be manipulated to read what the customer wants.

In the run up to invading Iraq in 2003, the Bush junta USIC concentrated on poor sources to sell the war-- anti-Saddam Hussein businessmen like Ahmad Chalabi who walked around the Pentagon as if something was stuck up his feces evacuator.

During OIF in Iraq, informants coughed up their personal or tribal enemies to MNF-I, telling us they were jihadists when they weren't.

When the Iranian students, the Revolutionary Guards, seized the US Embassy in 1979 out of anger for POTUS Jimmy Carter allowing the hated Shah of Iran into the US for cancer treatment, the majority of Iranians-- a conservative society-- were aghast at this breach of international protocol and diplomacy, but were powerless to stop it.

Iranian intelligence (the MOIS) analyzes the world the same way. Look at their AI-videos clowning Dummkopf Trumpf. MOIS knows the real enemy in the mosaic isn't the hardworking, peace-loving American people, but the globally-despised Trumpf junta and the murderous Netanyahu regime.

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