@dianeb1956 @mmpadellan Watch him with the sound off.
He just looks clinically deranged.🙄
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@mmpadellan @Resister_E Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense ever. Yes Secretary of Defense, not war. He thinks he’s tough standing there w/ that ugly, hateful, face & yelling at the press. U U will sound like a 12 yr old playing w/ your army set. You R so out of your league you punk!
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Have you ever seen a more unbalanced, unhinged, emotionally UNSTABLE person leading the Pentagon, especially during war times? I haven't.
Yelling at the press for using trump's OWN words.
Hegseth is in over his head. Impeach him, before he costs more American lives.
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@nicksortor It's absurd to criticize Europe for staying out of Trump's illegal Iran war without mentioning the obvious: letting the US use their bases turns Europe into a direct retaliation target.
Americans wouldn't invite Iranian missiles onto US soil - why on earth would Europe?
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@RonFilipkowski ...and let's not understate this: $841 billion isn't just a budget - it's a geopolitical shockwave.🙄
Then what the hell is Trump doing with $1.5 trillion?
It's certainly not for national defense.😵💫
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This budget shows the true colors of the "America First" agenda.😳
If "America" is defined as its everyday citizens - their health, education, infrastructure, and financial stability - then this budget is the exact opposite of "America First." It keeps the population poor and uneducated.
It is an architecture of systemic entrapment.
Millions of children are born into a brutal cycle of poverty with two eventual uses: cheap, deregulated labor or cannon fodder for future wars.
Large-scale military buildups are usually financed by raising taxes - but Trump is doing the opposite, handing $3.28 trillion to the top 1%, which accounts for 86% of the total tax cut gains. This creates a significant fiscal gap, accelerating global distrust and de-dollarization.
This is where the MAGA Christian nationalist propaganda does its heaviest lifting. They sell the "moral, pro-life victory" to their base, blinding them to the fact that they are being systematically reduced to a poor, uneducated underclass.
This isn't a federal budget; it's a liquidation sale.
It's about immediate, short-term wealth extraction for Trump/Kushner & the #EpsteinElite.
The true colors of "America First."
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Crazy lady who was once banned by Uber but now has the ear of the president of the United States openly calling for genocide against Iran.
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer
If we really want to be taken seriously when we talk about sending Iran “back to the stone ages” then this is what needs to happen. The US needs to bomb Iran’s: Power & water infrastructure Bank and financial institutions Production/storage facilities for fertilizer and pesticides Every single Islamist/regime “cultural heritage” sites, including every single mosque Natural gas and oil pipelines Kharg Island Civil logistics hubs Courthouses and jails All of these need to be hit. We need to deprive Iran of all the niceties of a moderne day society, and we need to do so now. And then we need to make the people beg on their knees for humanitarian food assistance from the international Red Cross so that the people force Iran to surrender to the US. This is how you WIN wars. Cutis LeMay understood this very well. It’s time to carpet bomb Iran. Force them to their knees. Destroy the infrastructure. It’s the only way.
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How could Hegseth even be a Fox News host?
I of course don't watch Fox, but is it that substandard?
Poor the US!
BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️@mmpadellan
Have you ever seen a more unbalanced, unhinged, emotionally UNSTABLE person leading the Pentagon, especially during war times? I haven't. Yelling at the press for using trump's OWN words. Hegseth is in over his head. Impeach him, before he costs more American lives.
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The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them.
Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him.
Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.
Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals.
He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry.
nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
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@anders_aslund It's so strange, they are dismantling 80y defense strategy, without saying what replaces it...?
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I hope this statement is the end of Rubio in Europe:
1. Trump has insisted on annexing Canada & Greenland, which are part of NATO. That aggression is impermissible.
2. The main threat to European security is Russia's aggression against Ukraine & Europe. Your National Security Strategy ignores that and claims that Europe is the main threat.
3. The US has cut off all assistance to Ukraine.
4. The US has voted with Russia & a dozen of its rouge states in the UN claiming that Russia did not pursue a war of aggression against Ukraine.
5. NATO Article 5 has only been invoked once, but the US in 2001 after 9/11 & the whole of NATO stood up for the US.
6. Trump has repeatedly insulted the allies that lost about 1,000 soldiers for the US in Afghanistan.
7. Trump has all along claimed that NATO allies do not pay their share of NATO costs, which is untrue. They are now spending more on their own defense because nobody trusts the US under Trump.
8. Trump incessantly insults NATO allies for no reason. If you don't know how to behave, you deserve no sympathy or support.
9. The US started a mad war of aggression on Iran without consulting any allies but Israel. Immediately afterwards Trump started insulting allies as usual.
10. Trump's war on Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz & is causing a global economic crisis, which is entirely due to the stupidity and power of Trump, but you are defending this atrocity.
If you don't know how to think or behave, shut up!
MAG🔫1775🇺🇸@realMAG1775
100,000 troops in Europe. Zero help on Hormuz. Bring them home now. No more free rides.
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@anders_aslund A lot of dangerous things could happen before 'the US will become sane'... 🙄
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I think Simon Jenkins has got this just right:
"To a world at a loss as to how to handle Trump, I say this: the only answer may be to wait him out"
1. Don't talk to Trump! (He is an idiot).
2. Just ignore him!
3. Sooner or later the US will become sane.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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The United States is losing its status as a global hegemon, and this is Russia’s worst nightmare. The rules of war have changed: heavy equipment is dead — everything is decided by technology and semiconductors. Drones costing five hundred to a thousand dollars can easily destroy tanks worth millions.
Washington is stuck in the past, shooting down Iranian devices costing twenty to forty thousand dollars with missiles worth several million. The Gulf countries know how to count: they are turning away from the U.S. and are already buying Ukrainian interceptor drones for a few thousand.
Trust in America has been destroyed. The sudden suspension of intelligence sharing (which led to Ukraine losing territory near Kursk) showed the world: relying on the U.S. is смертельно dangerous.
For Russia, this is a strategic dead end. Ukraine is moving its weapons production to Europe — and Russia cannot strike those facilities without a direct confrontation with NATO.
Contracts with Arab countries are giving Kyiv independent billions and new allies. For these countries, Ukraine’s defeat is now economically disadvantageous. Even if the U.S. completely withdraws support, Kyiv will have the resources to continue the war.
The global system is broken. The end of the monopoly on American weapons will inevitably lead to the collapse of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
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The $1.5 trillion military budget request from Trump today is an obscenity.
The defense budget in 2024 was $841 billion.
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@Microinteracti1 Are they clearing the way to launch a nuclear strike on Iran?🤔
The man lied about an election and tried to violently overthrow his own government - there is no line he won't cross.
#IranWar
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Trump gave Europe a "once-in-a-generation" opportunity.🌟
1⃣New markets open up (tariffs/trade wars)
The EU signed massive, lucrative free-trade agreements that the US walked away from. The Euro will probably become the safe-haven currency sooner than people think. Europe replaces America/fills gaps in manufacturing, agriculture, and industrial exports... and more.
2⃣Internal spending stays in Europe (defense autonomy)
NATO friction ➡️ defense shift
Massive push to buy European-made systems & build domestic defense industry. The EU already redirected €88 billion in annual defense procurement away from American contractors and directly into European companies. By cutting off the US, Europe created a booming, high-tech "war economy".
Bottom line: We are looking at a historic role reversal. The upcoming decade is setting up to be the greatest economic and geopolitical renaissance for Europe since the post-WWII boom.
BUT, now the US is burning itself down from the inside... its instability can slow everyone down - including Europe. Trump will absolutely try to drag the world down with him. We can only hope the EU successfully built a seawall before the American tsunami hit.😵💫
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How can the US have a president who is a complete scatterbrain?
The republicans in Congress are responsible for this disaster.
Farrukh@implausibleblog
Left: President Trump, "Regime change (in Iran) was not our goal" Right: President Trump, "But we also want regime change (in Iran)" These two speeches were on the same day 🤷♂️
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Hassett: "Last night, I was in a restaurant and I asked every waiter, 'How much money did you make?' now that they're doing their taxes because of the no tax on tips. The lowest answer was $3,000 and the highest was $10,000. This is really an economy that can't be slowed down."
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The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG.
And it won’t get 1% of the coverage.
Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.
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