NATO, the end?
President Trump has been vocal in calling NATO a one-way street.
America pays the lion’s share, provides the intelligence, the strategic airlift, the aerial refueling, the missile defense, the C4ISR backbone, everything that actually matters in a real fight.
A few days ago, the President lambasted the flaccid alliance for their refusal to support the war in Iran, suggesting that the US may no longer be a member because they can’t be relied upon.
Mike Benz, the founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, laid out that NATO is too busy policing people’s tweets to substantively support actual defense funding.
“October 2021, 10 months into the Biden administration, NATO’s Allied Command Transformation Innovation Hub has enlisted a team of Johns Hopkins engineering students in the fight against misinformation,” Benz shared.
“I’m sorry, who enlisted them? Like some wacky pink-haired 6th-grade English teacher? Or did you say NATO?”
“You said the f***ing Transatlantic Military Alliance recruited the Hopkins engineering students in the fight against misinformation on Twitter.”
“They’re tasked with cognitive warfare and creating a system to identify, measure, and track attacks.”
“You mean tweets? Like something I sh** out on the toilet?”
“Quick, let me have the Johns Hopkins engineering team at the Applied Physics Lab creating our AI f***ing scan and ban dashboard say Benz’s 4 AM toilet tweet is an attack on the cognitive security of the Western Alliance.”
“‘Tweets that confuse, misinform, and manipulate the behavior of targeted audiences.’”
“You mean like your followers on Twitter?”
“‘Today’s battles are being fought with ideas,’…. Remember, this is pre-2022 when NATO went, ‘Oh sh**, after f***ing 6 years of only focusing on tweets, I forgot we’re actually supposed to have tanks. And our entire NATO budget went into creating a censorship industrial complex.’”
“And then one year after this, Russia goes into Ukraine and we go ‘Oh sh**, we spent all our money funding the Atlantic Council and Graphika and Johns Hopkins and the Stanford Internet Observatory and Bellingcat and the EU DisinfoLab and Fact Not Fake and the Institute for Strategic Dialog and the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Integrity Initiative.’”
“‘Oh sh**, we forgot to fund tanks.’”
Watch:
NATO doesn’t have tanks because they spent their budget going after your tweets pic.twitter.com/AzQaOtkMOJ
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 4, 2026
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