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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Is NATO figuring it out?
Date: 04/01/26 1:22 PM
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"Team player" is "JC"-speak for "I demand you cut your throat, for my benefit".


Cutting their throats, how?

mirror.co.uk - Iran backed UK terror plots
Yup.

How about France and other places?
icct.nl - Iranian external operations europe criminal connection

I for the life of me will never understand how the left got to where it is today, that their hatred for 1 guy blinds them to nearly 50 years of murder and mayhem directed against us by the Iranians.

As luck would have it, I was reading an article in Air Force magazine yesterday, about the intervention in Libya. The other NATO members were on board with that. So was the UN.

Except for these guys:
upi.com - France which refused to allow US warplanes to cross
PARIS -- France, which refused to allow U.S. warplanes to cross French territory en route to Libya, criticized the United States Tuesday for setting the stage for a new 'chain of violence' with its bombing raids.

Some things never change. And recall that Reagan launched those strikes in part due to this:
americanarchive.iwm.org.uk - Operation el dorado canyon raid libya

In retaliation for the deadly bombing of a West Berlin nightclub in April 1986, US President Ronald Reagan ordered an attack at the heart of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Ten days later, F-111s took off from RAF Lakenheath for what would become the longest combat fighter mission in history.

On the night of 5th April 1986, an explosion ripped through the dancefloor of a crowded West Berlin discotheque, sending partygoers tumbling into the cellar below. Two people died at the scene, 29-year-old Turkish woman Nermin Hannay and 21-year-old US Sergeant Kenneth T. Ford. Another US sergeant, James E. Goins, died later in hospital. Over 200 people were injured in the blast, including 79 Americans.


You'd have thought that the Germans would have been upset by foreign agents blowing up their citizens but maybe not.

NATO countries like France and Spain are useless.

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