DawginSC
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@UserRedDawg @JonahDispatch @BuckinghamWyatt They won’t quit because they have no upside. The shaming/guilt tactic from the cancel culture era has run its course.
Whether we actually have the fortitude to withdraw from Europe is to be seen, but NATO isn’t a benefit for us anymore.
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@JonahDispatch @BuckinghamWyatt It’s obvious Trump is goading worthless allies into rage quitting.
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I agree with some of this directionally, but my God the refusal to acknowledge that Trump has worked assiduously to poison the alliance and heap all the blame on Europe is just water-carrying hackery.
Saying "NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause" is like writing a movie review when you missed the first half of the movie.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
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@alexthechick I guess they think Canada will become the heavy lifter in the organization going forward.
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What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?
This is a serious question, did the NYT fire all its editors?
Sasha Issenberg@sissenberg
Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?
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@harukaawake That’s the Democratic Socialist party in the U.S. unfortunately they have several members of congress
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🇯🇵 I recently learnt the word "cringe" in English.
When I think of this word, I think of our political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. They argue for more Islamic immigration, trans rights and everything else you'd expect.
They currently have 1 seat in the government.
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@ankoromochuu You are nicer to them than we are. We just call them idiots and other appropriate nouns, and they don’t like that.
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@shipwreckedcrew So is a war crime now anything that damages the enemy’s ability to fight?
I presume possessing a bullet in a rifle is considered a war crime by the left these days.
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How many bridges did the Allies bomb in Europe in WWII?
I remember some movies being made about that.
Acyn@Acyn
Moulton: I know active duty Marines who now refer to Pete Hegseth’s department as the department of war crimes. That's because they do things like this, destroy civilian infrastructure, which, just to be clear, is a war crime. It's meant to hurt civilians. This is the same stuff that we criticize Vladimir Putin for doing in Ukraine. He doesn't know how to get out. So what is he doing? He's resorting to war crimes. It's an embarrassment.
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Seeing a lot of tweets that show people don’t realize everything Artemis 2 is doing, including calculating slingshot trajectories with no margin for error, was already done in 1968 and repeated multiple times afterward, including in 1970 when they had to recalculate and execute a new trajectory 150,000 miles from Earth with engines that weren’t designed for it because part of the spacecraft had exploded. All of this was done with computers that had 100,000 times less memory and 1,000 times less processing power than an iPhone. It’s great that it’s being done again, but the real mind blowing thing is that the exact same thing was done 58 years ago with far less technology.
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@BecketAdams @awstar11 Hopefully we can extend the hours near until the CCP implodes on itself like the USSR did.
Seen lots of generals and deputies disappear from Beijing lately. Looks like they got problems going on in the party.
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I don’t know, man. A Europe that’ll nickel-and-dime the U.S. and indulge its procedural fetish for a war involving 6th century desert savages prrooooobably isn’t going to be a reliable partner when the U.S. and China inevitably come to blows.
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@omriceren @alexthechick To be honest, the opinions they are posting on X explain a lot.
I have always wondered how a two-term administration could make as many asinine decisions as the Obama administration did.
And now we know.
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"There's no possible military rationale for destroying a bridge used by the enemy for lines of communication."
You guys see what I mean about what Team Obama did to the foreign policy expert class, in which they all credentialed each other to say things about Iran?
Rosemary Kelanic@RKelanic
What could possibly be the military rationale for this. There isn’t one.
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@ingelramdecoucy @KenRoth Ken Roth has a pipeline to iran
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The US military reportedly committed a "double tap" strike in Iran. The "two strikes had hit the bridge around an hour apart, the second arriving while emergency responders were assisting the wounded," even though rescue workers are protected civilians. trib.al/KRzSayT
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@RadioFreeTom lol! Want to talk about someone who is clearly unqualified for their job?
Look in the mirror.
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Reports now that Hegseth oversold the war to Trump and underestimated Iran's willingness to fight back.
It's almost as if he's unqualified for his job. Too bad the Senate didn't have confirmation hearings; those would have proven his manifest unsuitability to lead the Pentagon.
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@alexthechick @SarahAHoyt @AsheSchow They had no real argument against photographic identification to vote so this is the fallacy that they manufactured.
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@SarahAHoyt @AsheSchow Where on Earth is this change name on birth certificate when change name when married idiocy coming from?
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What world does this woman live in? Married women don't change their birth certificate. They weren't ADOPTED. They just take their birth certificate and their marriage certificate when they register to vote.
OR their "Real ID" which already certifies this stuff.
OR you know, do nothing.
AGAIN the SAVE act wouldn't unenroll anyone registered to vote (that's one of its weaknesses. Because we have a lot of illegal/dead/imaginary voters.) It would simply prevent the fraud from continuing.
Hillary Scholten is mendacious, since I don't think she's stupid enough to believe what she's saying. NO ONE IS.
Terrence K. Williams@w_terrence
Democrat Hillary Scholten: “In Michigan's third district alone, 160,000 women could find themselves unable to register to vote simply because when they got married they didn’t change both their ID and their birth certificate.”
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@ELuttwak from a European perspective, the Strait of Hormuz was open prior to the initiation of war by US and Israel. The control of the Strait is from land, not by warships.
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Many Americans dislike Trump but one thing he said last night evoked widespread approval: his invitation to the European countries that need oil and gas from the Gulf to send their own forces to secure it, an easy task now that Iran has no warships or even motorboats in the Gulf
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@Witchwatch99 Hey, we would love some of your smaller vehicles, especially the small trucks.
But with the behemoths we currently have on the road, they would be unsafe.
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この話が出るたびに「そのアメリカ人を京都に連れて来てアメリカ車で市内をドライブさせろ」と言い続けてる。
哲学ニュースnwk@nwknews
アメリカ「日本ではアメリカ車が全然売れていない。非関税障壁のせいだ」 nwknews.jp/archives/62372…
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@shoveitjack @DarshanAleph What’s the over/under on how many generations it will take for the UK to become a third world basket case with poorly maintained nukes? I’ll set it at 1.5
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Awww. You gonna cry?
Sorry if the truth hurts. Enjoy living in your caliphate.
Say, when’s the last time the UK managed a space launch? Enlighten me…
Luke Chadderton@LukeChadderton1
@shoveitjack Give it a rest you yank cunt
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@zundamotisuki Leftists are inherently globalists, so anything that is positive to a specific country's advancement or promotions is considered anathema.
I honestly wonder how Leftists feel about the Olympics. The games certainly promote national pride. Do they cheer your medal winners?
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日本のパヨクは自分が所属する国の代表チームを応援することすらできません
何故左翼には愛国心がかけらもないのですか？
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@Reasonmaxxing @MagnesNitratr @avidseries Actually, she is a fool.
She is a fool in that she is risking destroying many significant court principles, such as stare decisis, in the name of her personal ideology. She also contradicts her own legal analysis from her prior opinions.
Kagan just threw her under the bus.
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@MagnesNitratr @avidseries I'm sure you'd agree she's not the only ideologue on the Court lol. If she's one, so are Thomas and Alito (both of whom I respect greatly).
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It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt of it.
— Maurice Switzer
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
KBJ speaks more then all of the male Supreme Court justices combined
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@bonchieredstate Pretty sure that the Suebi would have liked it if Caesar had left his bridge across the Rhine for them to raid into Germania.
Gaius Julius had other plans.
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Just astonishing to me that someone could claim to be this credentialed, yet be completely unaware of the importance of disrupting bridges during conflict.
There has not been a single war in modern history that has not included the destruction of bridges.
Rosemary Kelanic@RKelanic
What could possibly be the military rationale for this. There isn’t one.
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