wife of a marine. cold war kid. comms planner. living on 🏝 2 cat 5 hurricanes. ridin’ w/biden. #FBR 🌊 #resist #climate insult=block @pet_surft on threads
Feb 13 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
NATO spending is set 2% of GDP of each member country. There is no bill and no payment to NATO. This is money the member countries invest IN THEIR OWN MILITARY. E.g. it pays for troops, training, R&D, weapons stock piling etc. So all the money the US spends for "NATO" goes 1/
Directly into the US economy. Now the US spends more than 2% of GDP on defense anyways so NATO is not "costing" the US anything. Because the spend is % of GDP of course a smaller country like Greece spends a smaller total amount of money. This is not unfair. The reason for 2/
Jan 29 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Orange Grandpa goes on increasingly weird tangents in his rallies (magnets in glasses, -40 in Iowa his EV going bzzzbzzz, GSDs are better than machines, dementia tests etc.). He still knows how to read a crowd and does notices when he is losing them. He then quickly brings out 1/
his all-time classics, drill baby drill (which is a lie as US domestic oil production is higher than ever) and the border. So of course he is not going to give up on this all time classic about the only thing that still gets major applause in his increasingly lunatic rants. 2/
Jan 22 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
This weekend in Germany 🇩🇪, over 1.4 million people in 145 cities and villages came out for pro democracy demonstrations agains the far right. Ordinary people who never attended a demonstration in their life came out. Grandparents, families, everyone. What triggered it? 1/
Germany's far right party AfD is gaining traction esp in the former East. Some party members were overheard talking about deportation and some were filmed singing Germany to the Germans in a club. Now if what Trump says at his rallies about deportations and poisoning the blood 2/
Feb 1, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Florida, take note. In Berlin 🇩🇪 a memorial is set into the cobblestones of a plaza and contains a collection of empty subterranean bookcases. The plaque reads: That was but a prelude;
where they burn books,
they will ultimately burn people as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty…
Dear American journalists, SWIFT is not a bank it is European's banking code system to send and receive money orders. Each account has a unique long number which is a combination of routing number and account#
it's not that simple to just cut Russia off, European creditors would loose their payments from Russa and yes Germany and others pay their gas with it. Also Russia built their own SWIFT alternative after Crimea, so it is not certain how powerful it be and
Feb 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I grew up on the west side of the wall in Cold War Germany. In a town with an army headquarter and 80.000 American soldiers. Chernobyl and the wall coming down happened in my formative years. The world seemed good after that with democracy winning, we are going backwards in time.
One of my first childhood memories 6 yrs old is cycling over a bridge to tennis practice being passed by a colony of US tanks. Not with wheels, but with chains, deafening noise, asphalt flying, the bridge shaking and the tank less than 2 feet away. exercises, keeping us safe!
Aug 31, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1/ So much misinformation going around about the dogs. The US military did not leave their dogs behind. The dogs in crates at airport are contractor working dogs that were rescued by KSA and are being flown out by @VetSheepdogsUS. The CDC does not allow dogs from 100 nations in
2/ that includes Afghanistan. The working dogs have the paperwork (e.g. rabies shot) to go to Germany for quarantine for 30 days before going to the US. The other dogs without paperwork were released from their crates in enclosed area of airport (former employee housing) w/ food
