Nothing says strong military like not planning for future conflicts

  • Llamatron@lemmy.world
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    It’s extraordinary how Americans have elected someone who is actively weakening the country and no one is doing a fucking thing about it.

    Putin is a genius.

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      Not only that, but our president is casually tossing around WW3 threats as if he isn’t staffing the military with incompetents and drunks.

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          Panama, Canada, Greenland, that meeting with Zelensky… have you been living under a rock recently? Or do you not think that America attacking one of those places wouldn’t spark a massive world war?

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            I see. He was not making threats of WW3 though, he was warning about potentially escalating to WW3.

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                You understand the difference between threatening someone with WW3, and warning someone that they might actually start WW3, right?

                Trump isn’t the one who will trigger nor participate in WW3 in neither scenario.

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                  Respectfully, I don’t know how you could sit through his first four years, and definitely not the last six weeks, and dismiss anything he says out of hand at this point.

                  You are being unreasonable.

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      5 days ago

      What genius ideas do you have for us to implement in order to resolve this situation General Armchair?

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        They don’t need genius ideas.
        They’re doing a fucking thing about it.
        Sit back and relax. We’ll be saved any moment.

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    “As part of the Department’s ongoing commitment to strengthening our national defense, the Secretary of Defense has directed the disestablishment of the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) and the development of a plan to rebuild it in alignment with the Department’s strategic priorities. The Department remains committed to conducting rigorous, forward-looking strategic assessments that directly inform defense planning and decision-making."

    Like many of his other cuts, it’s likely more about restructuring so he can put his own people in the roles. I remain skeptical that Trump is actually some sort of committed isolationist as liberals want me to believe (even though I’d prefer if he was).

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    but they need someone to draw-up the plans for invading greenland, canada, and panama (any others added to that list yet?).

    is some muskrat intern gonna run everything through the computer? their computer?

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    Russia in the 90s-vibes. Next they’re going to sell off their arsenal

    (before my time, so correct if way off)