Yeah, starting needless wars, tanking the economy, using ICE as his personal militia against people with brown skin, using the office for his own personal gain, and trying to cover up his crimes as a rapist and pedophile isn't a big deal. People should just go with the flow.
Yeah, Trump's "bluster" was so effective and not harmful that it's likely the main reason why our traditional allies refused to help us in this stupid war. Trump has spent a decade slamming and insulting our allies in public in every way possible, and it damn sure affected their decisions on whether to help us or not. That's just human nature. The only people who really have TDS are his supporters who are twisting themselves into ever more painful contortions of logic to justify supporting him and his dumbass decisions on pretty much everything under the sun.
I believe we are closer to revolution in iran than many believe. I'm in no way advocating invading iran to wipe out the iranian guard, but i am in favor of using our special forces to take karg island and in special ops along the strait. At this point, it would be better to facilitate. It's much less costly in terms of money and loss of life to take karg, attack the electric grid, and choke off their economy to bring about revolution than any other method that might be used.
An overlooked aspect of this has been how effective governments in the entire region have been at suppressing news of the war. The all learned from the Arab Spring that free flow of citizen reporting undermined their regimes.
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Is there any convincing evidence Israel would have gone about the strikes alone?
I think you apply the TDS label to the wrong group. The sycophants and the excuse makers are really those with TDS.
Will the (counter) revolutionaries in Iran be armed? How? With what? The IRGC seems largely loyal to the regime and unless it splinters into at least one separatist group, there will be no uprising. The Iranian people, no matter how they detest the regime, aren't going to be able to topple it themselves.
Correct. Orban and Putin and MAGA are the only people in the world with any sense.
I agree with trump that nato has been riding our coattails for decades with the US funding the bulk of nato. No other potus felt it necessary to seek more accountability from europe. europe was content to rely on us for its security. The nato framework needs to be reworked. I was stunned to learn that countries who offer no financial or military support have the same veto power we have. That isn't right and in the best interest of the US. he can't pull the US out of nato, but he can and will use that threat and other leverage to rework nato in a manner more beneficial to the US.
Where did you see this? There are no NATO countries that offer no financial or military support.
lol at you cf. every post you make says the same thing, and every word is nothing but cliche and talking points. never an original thought. there is a reason for that. can you guess what that reason is? i don't think you can string more than a two sentence post together with any insight if your life depended on it. you don't have to go with the flow. you can just continue to be the board's Raymond Babbitt and repeating the same 20 words over and over in every post. you obviously get comfort in that because you never actually discuss political issues, just rearrange the sequencing of rapist, pedophile, fascist, etc. take heart though, it will soon be time for Judge Wapner.
It's the truth. You don't want to see it, or you don't care because you are the same type of horrible person. It's nothing political about it. It's all wrapped in racism, bigotry, cruelty and hate. That's what you support. You're either the same type of person or you're just an idiot to support this shit still.
Technically, Iceland. Practically there are several. And every country has the same veto power. It operates by consensus. So the US which spends close to $1 trillion (over 60% of the total) has the same veto power as Iceland. or slovenia, luxembourg, north macedonia who spend about $500 million and have almost no military resources. trump is absolutely correct to challenge the current nato charter. hell, canada only spends about $44 billion and only has 68,000 troops, 400 aircraft, and 60 ships. it has been sucking at the US military tit since the beginning. trump's method of challenging the status quo is wrong, but the need and intent is right.
This entire thread is about the iran war. Its totally political. How many comments have you made about the war that didn't totally focus on you same 20 adjectives of trump? 0 because you don't have a thought outside of trump.
Trump is the one behind it all. Your cult leader destroys everything he touches. It's a complete shitshow and you continue to worship your cult leader, and there's no reason anyone would still support the sociopath unless they're an idiot or a horrible person.
The question is not whether the United States spends more to fund NATO than Macedonia. The question is whether NATO protects our national security.