After 77 years, the greatest alliance in human history is definitely showing its age. Can a rudderless and increasingly anti-Western Europe be counted on any longer to provide the money and effort needed to save itself?
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April 19, 2026
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Bill’s opening statement reminds me of “A Few Good Men”
“You want me in that Gulf, you need me in that Gulf!!”
The Royal Navy, the ‘unbeatable foe’ of yesteryear, is now the dinghy that Jack Sparrow drives into (under) the pier in “Pirates of The Caribbean”.
Those European countries that “closed their airspace to US forces”: So what? None of them have anything that can stand up to our military. F’em. Go through anyway. They can’t stop us.
Brittan is so influenced by muslims in their government that this is not surprising.
As a physician, I’m bombarded by complaints, legitimate complaints, about the cost of care. “Europe takes care of its people” with socialized medicine, they say. They “afford this” because they are leaving responsibility for their defense to the USA. (Never mind that in many countries on the other side of the pond there is “death by queue”, standing in line until you are dead.). And here in America, only 30% of people, the insured with crazy high deductibles, pay for EVERYTHING! They’re effete hypocrites. Their countries are being stolen from under their noses. They are sacrificing their young women, the… Read more »
Excuse me, Bill, but Poland is the only country in Europe looking out for itself?
Hungary: “Hold my goulash”
Ummm,
Eeewww?
And now do the same show but substitute UN for NATO. Another useless organization that sucks our money and then lectures us about our 2A, our LGBTQ+ abuses, our climate, etc. Leave UN, evict them all to say France, turn the building into a Veterans community with apartments, shopping, medical, workout facilities. They can elect what’s left of Iran to administer women’s rights groups.
Bill, a question for you. If you want to stay in NATO, and you assert that the U.S. is pretty doggone good at diplomacy, what is it about getting OUT of NATO and using that excellent diplomatic influence to keep and even expand the spread of our military assets? In other words, why is membership in NATO a requirement to have bases outside of our borders? I served active duty in Germany for not quite 15 years in the 80s and half of the 90s. I’ve encountered NATO at a very small, tiny level. My impression was then, and is… Read more »
Expand to where? Australia, they denounced us. New Zealand, they begged to ceasefire that more bombing was adverse to peace. Japan, who we do all the protection for, just wants the Gult open so they get cheap oil. Maybe South Korea, who we still defend from commies in the North. We offered to take in Iceland but EU Denmark et al all screamed we were stealing their territory that they don’t defend. So what does that leave us to expand to North Pole, South Pole?
We need to cut the Italian PM, Meloni some slack she is on board but her dysfunctional parliament makes congress look like its working. In most EU countries there are elections soon with the pro Maga Civic Nationalist parties slated to win. High oil driven inflation actually helps them. Giorgia Meloni Is in the UAE right now and may send Troops and assets there. You don’t need ships to open the Straits of hormuz, its only 28 – 40 miles wide. You use helicopters, drone boats, fighter/ bombers and the US has A 10 Warthogs there already. The IRGC have… Read more »
Meloni is talking, talking, talking. All those useless EU leaders do is talk. Not cutting any slack. If she’d only let dementia Jo wonder into the forest things would’ve been better. Bomb Iran back 100 yrs. If they launch even one Roman candle at a ship, launch 5 tomahawks for a sub off shore into the center of their whatever they value.
There are pipelines bypassing the Strat that can reportedly handle 1% of the oil demand. That’s limited by how many ships they can load at once so they are building 3 km of extra deep water loading docks. The pipes are full, the tanks at Fujairah are full, two burned nicely but there is 200 of them. There is a carrier group off the port providing cap and destroying anything coming from Iran’s direction that looks at anyone funny. Several countries are paying the Iranian Diplomates a dollar a barrel to get their ships out of the Strait. The Diplomats… Read more »